This type of story is right up my alley.  I’ve always been fascinated by doomsday scenarios and the films they have spawned: Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove , . ., Crimson Tide, By Dawn’s Early Light, Miracle Mile, Defcon-4, The Day After, […]

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When Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later appeared in 2002, it was celebrated as a frightening, gore-filled, innovative new take on what were becoming familiar zombie tropes.  I disagreed, and gave it two stars.  I’ve not seen it since.  The sequel, 28 […]

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Four years ago Mike McCann and his brother helped save some trapped miners in northern Canada by traveling the treacherous “Ice Road” and fighting corporate saboteurs along the way.  Now, they return in a sequel story that no one expected […]

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Semi-comic tales of wild adventures which put kids in peril are not among my favorite types of movies (think The Goonies or The Monster Squad).  I know those types of films have their rabid fans — especially for viewers who saw them […]

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Having just seen Nuremberg and borne witness to the atrocities committed by the Nazis I thought it would be a good time to see a slightly more positive view of that era, so I watched One Life, a British drama about a […]

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The long internet-tional nightmare is over; I have finally journeyed back into a darkened theatre.  For the first time in almost three months I have actually seen a theatrical movie.  It’s the longest drought I have endured since back problems […]

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