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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 30 Nov 2013

It might be remade almost shot-for-shot, but times have changed since the `70s, and I personally think Peirce's clear agenda for updating its…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 25 Nov 2013

There is no law of diminishing returns here…

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Review of Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 16 Nov 2013

Less violent and less mean-spirited than Jackass, Bad Grandpa is a funny little diversion and that's about it, but that's okay…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 24 Oct 2013

Machete don't text, but he does seem to have jumped a shark. The first film was great fun, but Machete Kills seems to have misunderstood its own joke…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 20 Oct 2013

The stunning vista of the Earth spinning below, the scale of the emptiness, the distances, the astronauts and wreckage tumbling through the…

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Review of A Hijacking (2012)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 19 Sep 2013

It may sound like an odd recommendation but A Hijacking is brilliant precisely because of the skilful way it makes you feel engaged, unwell,…

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Review of R.I.P.D. (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 18 Sep 2013

It was nice to watch a movie that had no delusions of grandeur, a simple flick that both plays to its strengths and makes light of its own weaknesses…

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Review of RED 2 (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 30 Aug 2013

RED 2 plays it pretty safe, carefully emulating the style and tone of its predecessor, so if you enjoyed the first one, RED 2 should tick the…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 04 Aug 2013

The weakest film in the three, which is a disappointing way to wrap up a trilogy, but once it stumbles past its lumbering first act it warms…

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Review of The Wolverine (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 26 Jul 2013

A fairly solid stand-alone story that embraces everything that has preceded it and mostly keeps the momentum going in the lead-up to the next…

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Review of This Is the End (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 19 Jul 2013

If Fast and Furious 6 was stupid in the bad way, This is the End is stupid in the best and funniest way…

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Review of Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 11 Jul 2013

Whedon's legendary talent for dense dialogue and wrangling sprawling casts of strong characters into engaging stories has never been put to…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (1956)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 05 Jul 2013

I laughed, I had fun, but there is something annoyingly non-committal about the direction and tone…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2003)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 05 Jul 2013

I laughed, I had fun, but there is something annoyingly non-committal about the direction and tone…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 05 Jul 2013

I laughed, I had fun, but there is something annoyingly non-committal about the direction and tone…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 26 Jun 2013

It'll be controversial, but to hell with it: Michael Shannon is a better General Zod than Terrence Stamp. There. I said it…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 23 Jun 2013

Almost more action movie than zombie movie, World War Z is less about the zombies than it is about the effect the outbreak has on the world…

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Review of After Earth (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 13 Jun 2013

Stay home. Paint something. Watch it dry. It'll be more rewarding…

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Review of Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 06 Jun 2013

I recently saw a guy on TV having his scrotum nailed to a table in front of a laughing studio audience…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 11 Apr 2013

To call this an unlikely love story is an understatement, but it is precisely this level of weirdness that makes the romance between R and…

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