THE LOST CITY The Lost City is a moderately entertaining romantic comedy adventure in the tradition of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of The Nile with a touch of the historical puzzle solving of National Treasure. While this fluffy film has a few exciting and vaguely amusing moments, a little too often it feels as if the leads, Sandra Bullock
Read moreThe Ocean’s 11 etc movies are one of the less likely film franchises. Conceived in the 1960’s as a Vegas lark for the Rat Pack, the concept was resurrected in the 2000’s for George Clooney and a gaggle of his bros to play criminal hepcats ripping off casinos. With Ocean’s 8, the Ocean’s concept, like Doctor Who has reappeared in
Read moreThere are a handful of science fiction films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris and Alien that have such visual beauty and intelligence that they traverse the science fiction genre to become zeitgeist-defining events and major cinematic works of art. Alfonso Cuaron’s latest film Gravity is almost one of those movies. It is undoubtedly a technical triumph but just
Read moreScience fiction literature is full of stories about mad professors conducting hideously unethical gene- splicing experiments to create hybrid monsters. A similar process seems to have gone into the making of comedy The Heat where the crazy scientists have spliced Miss Congeniality with Identity Thief. The result is, despite the best efforts of the cast, a fumbling and unfunny variation
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