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Review of Village of the Damned (1995)

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

The real shock came when I noticed that a woman filing out of the premiere screening beside me had actually marked her rating card with an…

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Review of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)

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

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is like a combination of those two 1987 releases, but it contains none of the awesomeness of The Hidden and all…

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Review of The Messengers (2007)

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

Thai twin-brother directors Oxide and Danny Pang did primo horror work on 2002's Hong Kong cornea-transplant flick The Eye, but on their first…

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Review of Spider-Man 3 (2007)

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

The result is fairly impressive but ultimately busy and wearying…

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Review of Dead Silence (1991)

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 The Exorcist III (1990)

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

A good chunk of The Exorcist III is taken up by a series of sit-down chats; close-ups of Scott's ugly mug are the only half-frightening thing…

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Review of The Invasion (2007)

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

As ridiculous as The Invasion gets, its competent acting, fast pace, and campy B-movie vibe keep you weirdly transfixed against your better judgment…

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Review of Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009)

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

It could be the funniest Canadian movie ever made…

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Review of Lord of Illusions (1995)

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

It's a sad day for both fright fans and the man Stephen King once prophesied was the future of horror…

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Review of The Number 23 (2007)

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

As Walter's/Fingerling's paranoia grows, the viewer is irritatingly yanked back and forth between the real and imagined settings, and left…

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Review of Severance (2006)

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

Discriminating horror fans should also note that it's the most exhilarating fright flick to hit theatres since last year's The Descent…

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Review of Sleepwalkers (1992)

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 Across the Universe (2007)

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

What makes this free-flowing musical drama the must-see movie of the year, and maybe of the decade, is the way it conveys the importance of…

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Review of Needful Things (1993)

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

By the end of the film, I couldn't have cared less if the town's entire population had been dragged down to Lucifer's fiery abode…

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Review of Untraceable (2008)

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

Untraceable boasts a respected director (Gregory Hoblit of Fracture and Primal Fear), and a popular movie star (Diane Lane) but it's still…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

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

A masterful blend of macabre storytelling, coming-of-age frankness, some shocking gore, and eerie melding of quiet sounds and incomplete imagery,…

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Review of Food, Inc. (2008)

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

A disturbing yet easy to watch documentary about the increasingly industrialized yanking on what used to be called the food chain…

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Review of The Ruins (2008)

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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Review of The Fourth Kind (2009)

By Patty Jones (13) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The eerie-jumpy bits simply don't pan out satisfyingly or convincingly…

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Review of Jerry Maguire (1996)

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

The megabucks actor may have made M:I because it was expected of him, but his mission here was to learn something about himself-through acting,…

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