Lockout (2012) ✰ ✰

Its credits claim that Lockout is “based on an original idea by Luc Besson,” but there is nothing original about Besson’s “idea.”  Lockout is, depending on your viewpoint, either an homage to or a ripoff of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981), […]

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The Lorax (2012) ✰ ✰ ✰

Some children’s movies have more substance than others, and some have more propaganda.  Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is a movie that certainly entertains children, and adults, yet it also undeniably functions as environmental propaganda.  So did the book.  This is not […]

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