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Review of Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Resident Evil: Afterlife sees Anderson returning to cinematic dreck with a stunningly tedious exercise in 3-D CGI wankery…

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Review of Twilight (1998)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine…

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Review of Drive Angry (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

There isn't much to Vancouver-raised director Patrick Lussier's film besides mayhem and muscle cars, but he sure gets those things right…

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Review of Twilight (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine…

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Review of Insidious (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

After a suspenseful and shock-filled first hour, it loses control and veers off into routine supernatural silliness. I hate it when that happens…

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Review of Twilight (1990)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine…

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Review of Twilight (1944)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine…

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Review of Chronicle (2012)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

The visual effects in Chronicle are astounding, but it's the well-drawn characters and convincing performances that keep it so wildly entertaining…

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Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

The bad news is that whenever this prequel's CGI apes aren't on-screen, you're wishing the flesh-and-blood actors would get the hell off…

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Review of The Thing (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Since Heijningen already had dibs on The Thing's hallowed name, he didn't even bother trying to conjure any of its slow-burning suspense or…

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Review of Twilight (2001)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Warm Bodies is a whoppingly insignificant zombie rom-com clearly aimed at scraping up any cash the horror-lite crowd hasn't already blown on Twilight…

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Review of Evening (1966)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine…

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Review of The Rite (1969)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Although Hopkins shines when his evil-infused priest exhibits low-level nastiness, his climactic exorcism scenes don't ring true and aren't…

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Review of The Rite (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

Although Hopkins shines when his evil-infused priest exhibits low-level nastiness, his climactic exorcism scenes don't ring true and aren't…

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Review of Gone (2012)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

By the end of Gone you'll be convinced that it's just a low-rent reworking of The Silence of the Lambs, with Seyfried's humongous peepers a…

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Review of Legion (2010)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

An utterly ludicrous entry in the biblical-horror subgenre…

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Review of Die (2010)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

For something spawned in a torture chamber, it seems to think pretty highly of itself…

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Review of Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

After one effective scene involving a radiated Russian bear, the quality of first-time director Bradley Parker's narrative starts melting down…

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Review of Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Feb 2013

The lowbrow and highfalutin collide in an orgy of upscale disembowelment as director Darren Lynn Bousman gives uneasy birth to the gore opera…

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