Author: tederick
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Review: THE GOLDEN COMPASS
One ring to rule them compass I feel sorry for The Golden Compass. Of all the fant-lit-to-film gimmes in the half-decade since The Lord of the Rings, Compass is the one which most painfully wants to wear Daddy’s clothes. Its every nook and cranny is so painfully subservient to that frantic desire that the film that emerges is utterly naked.…
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Matt’s first tat
OH MY GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH. OH MY FUCKING GOD I AM SO HAPPY. See? I toldja. 🙂 I am in love. That’s all there is to it. I am in love with my own arm. In my humble opinion – which is, at this time, admittedly not too terribly humble – Lisa did…
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Review: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
Re-posting this review from 2007, one of my favourites. Somehow, I never mentioned Timothy Olymphant once by name; but, the rest of the piece, I really like.
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Review: TITANIC
The Ship of Dreams I remember very clearly that for about six or seven hours, Titanic was the best-kept secret in the world. As the release of James Cameron’s seventh feature film drew towards us in 1997, I had heard all the horror stories, seen the (rather irritatingly) vague trailer, read the Time Magazine article about the sinking ship…
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Review: BATMAN BEGINS
My Life Is A Nightmare I’m still not convinced that the world needs Batman. Batman is, at his core, the superhero world’s finest fascist, a dark-clouded cowboy riding through the hills of urban America with a might-makes-right moral imperium that makes him, part and parcel, almost as dangerous as the villains he hunts. The “almost”…
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Review: REVENGE OF THE SITH
Triumph of the Whills Revenge of the Sith is about as good as it could ever have been possible for this movie – being episode three of these Star Wars, and also (not coincidentally) the long-storied episode in which The Bad Shit Goes Down – to be. And Episode III’s fabled history is an important…
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Review: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Forgive me. With Indy 5 coming towards us, I had no choice but to look at my own writing archives, and resurrect this rave from 2003. Twenty years ago! Little has changed, save (I hope) my skill.