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Review of Universal Soldier (1992)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

There are some pretty decent stunts-especially the one where the two main Uni-Sols go rappelling face-first down Hoover Dam-but they hardly…

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Review of Primeval (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Primeval is one of crummiest killer-beast flicks of all time…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (2008)

By Ron Yamauchi (32) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

This high-intensity rage and the resultant property damage are not just interesting metaphors: they're boffo entertainment…

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Review of Wide Awake (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

This low-key supernatural thriller, illogical as it is, offers a brief respite from the gruelling Saws and Hostels of the world…

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Review of Captivity (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The only smart move made by the filmmakers was casting Pruitt Taylor Vince as the torturer…

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Review of Joshua (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Anyone who's ever heard (or just imagined) troubling sounds coming from a fuzzy baby monitor or fretted while their fifth-grader traversed…

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Review of My Bloody Valentine (2009)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The outrageous amounts of blood 'n' guts directed toward the audience in three-dimensional spatters still make this substandard flick a gorehound's…

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Review of Anaconda (1997)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Just to show, early on, how much danger these folks are in, we get to see the film's titular star squeeze a black panther so tight that one…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

By John Lekich (26) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Even at a running time of two hours and 18 minutes, it's all pretty thin stuff…

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Review of Sleepwalkers (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Cameo appearances by horror icons Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, and the King himself add little to this slapstick gorefest, which focuses on goofy…

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Review of The Lawnmower Man (1992)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The blatant effort to cash in on King's name has never been so evident before, and at this rate we can surely expect the prime terror and gruesome…

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Review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

By Ron Yamauchi (32) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

[Features] some of the least watchable animation since Warner Brothers reinvented Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as kung-fu swordsmen with laser eyes…

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Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Dialing back the hyperkinetic action to 9.5 wouldn't have hurt this spectacular tale, which combines many film genres and visual styles for…

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Review of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Freddy Krueger's 3-D death is about as lame as the rest of this crummy flick, the sixth and supposedly last in the often imaginative but ultimately…

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Review of The Relic (1997)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

No doubt the bill for Energizers alone took up a big chunk of this gory clunker's $48-million budget…

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Review of The Strangers (1998)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Nothing gets the old heart pumping like the fear of home invasion, but you wouldn't know it by The Strangers, an utterly pointless portrait…

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Review of Dead Silence (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

All dolls are inherently freaky, but there's something seriously bent about a little wooden man with bulging eyes, shiny cheeks, and perfect chompers…

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Review of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

A spin-off of the semi-hit animated TV series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm goes even further into the roots of the bat-dude's particular pathologies…

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Review of Up (2009)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

There's much to make you laugh and cry, but the image that lingers is that of a gentle, bewildered man carrying his past overhead like a multicoloured…

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Review of The Ruins (1984)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Who really needs to see some guy slice into a woman's lower back, dig around in there with his fingers, and then reel in a four-foot length…

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