After a stint fooling around with the Avengers, Tony Stark is left with a mild case of PTSD and has to battle a new threat with nothing more than a screwdriver, 10 year old assistant and plenty of snark.
Review: Iron Man 3
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Review: Olympus Has Fallen
This is basically what the two Expendables movies tried so desperately to be but failed in replicating. It’s what Die Hard 4 and 5 couldnt even aspire to be. This is the ultimate callback to 90’s ‘Die Hard In A’ template movies spearheaded by Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme back in the day.
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Review: Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects is a hard pill to swallow knowing it’s his last feature film before his retirement from the cinematic medium.
Review: Identity Thief
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Review: Broken City
This crime thriller feels like the kind of movie Mark Wahlberg’s The Other Guys was mocking. A detective on the edge, kicked off the force but pulled back into the game thanks to his dogged nature and unconventional manner.
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Review: Flight
Robert Zemeckis’s return to live action cinema after ten years of horrible creepy mocap CGI animation, displays his trademark technical skill and habit for painting his cinematic landscape with broad strokes.
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Review: Cloud Atlas
Remember watching Memento and realising the story was being told backwards but the character arc was moving forwards?
Realising that the narrator in Fight Club suddenly became very unreliable?
When Neo lifted his hand and said “No”?
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Review: The Last Stand
Jee-woon Kim’s first foray in American cinema coincides with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proper return to the big screen, after his cameo in Expendables 2.
Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s follow up to the Oscar winning Hurt Locker continues her exploration of mental anguish suffered by employees of a major US government institution, and inflicted on its enemies. With Hurt Locker it was about the soldier, in this case it’s the CIA operative.
Review: Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis has reached such dizzying heights in his chosen profession that the extras in this film aren’t even acting, they’re genuinely awestruck in his presence. Mumbling their lines with puppy dog faces while hyperventilating, “Yes Mr…Lincoln…”
Cihan Narin 