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Visually, this has to be the cleverest, most well done art style I’ve seen in ages. Somehow, it welds live action with steampunk comic-book, adding some 1940s war film overtones, and film noir lighting. Pretty much the entire film was recorded on a blue-screen, yet everything seems real enough – albeit almost sepia-toned in places (and where appropriate). The plot follows Joe (“Sky Captain” himself) and Polly, a reporter and love interest/rival for Joe, as they investigate the giant robots …

Kurt Russell is an awkwardly almost-funny trucker who somehow ends up part of a fight against supernatural Chinese supermen and a very old, almost dead, guy who wants to regain his youth by marrying and then sacrificing a girl with green eyes. The plot has huge holes. Some of it doesn’t even make sense. Lo Pan (the evil old bloke) reminds me of Davros. The acting is rubbish, several of the characters are completely superfluous, the Chinese girl (with green …

I have a few films to get through, so nothing in depth on these, sorry! The Princess Bride is a film of the same genre, as well as style and era, as such things as Willow, The Neverending Story and Time Bandits. Basic plot: man and woman fall in love, man goes off to find his fortune, doesn’t return, girl is taken as bride for local prince, gang kidnaps girl, girl rescued by mysterious stranger, blah blah. The plot doesn’t …

I’ve seen this before. A long, long time ago. But I was somewhat confused while watching it again. First of all, large amounts of the film are pretty irrelevant to the story. There’s an awful lot of setting the scene, but the majority of the main action happens in the last 20 minutes. In fact, the first half of the film isn’t really even about Max himself anyway – it’s all about Goose, Max’s partner. And there’s lots I don’t …

Some people say a lot of bad things about Quentin Tarantino. They say his films are overly violent. They say he borrows too many ideas from other films. But that doesn’t matter – he’s a clever writer and an outstanding cinematographer. Like his previous films, Kill Bill is told in a disjointed, out of sequence manner. The story jumps backwards and forwards in time, but never in a way that confuses. It follows The Bride (Uma Thurman) as she bumps …

I was expecting this to be very similar to 28 Days Later. I wasn’t far wrong. A seemingly empty city, actually filled with “infected” humans. The story differs, however – in 28 Days Later, a few survivors band together to escape to a safe haven. Here, one man and his dog remain in the city, trying to find a cure. The shots of the overgrown city are very well done, but would have been more believeable if the streets were …