District 9

Not all scifi needs to have a message and certainly some people out there would prefer it didn't.  But I'm not one of them.  District 9 is very much sci fi with a message.  It's also one of my favorite films in recent memory.

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AKIRA

Over the next little while, I'm going to be taking a look at Katsuhiro Otomo's masterpiece manga AKIRA.  Today, we'll start with it's best known incarnation though, one of two films that broke open the anime market in the west.

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Fargo

A film about idiots being awful to each other shouldn't be this appealing.  But it is.

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The Happening

M. Night Shyamalan, who I still remember was being called a box office hero for his early run of movies, has become such a toxic name that movie studios now intentionally hide his involvement in movies he directed.  While that does raise questions about how he continues to get work when there are so many young directors trying to get into the business, lets take a look at the film that was the effective ringing bell for the end of his career.

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Joker Rising

It's an odd place, this here internet, and one of my favorite outpourings of that oddness is the phenomenon of the fan film.

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Kavinsky - Nightcall

This time, I take a look at Kavinsky's Nightcall, otherwise known as that song from Drive.

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Dredd

What if I told you that in 2012, somebody decided to take another crack at a franchise Sylvester Stallone had poisoned utterly and while nobody was looking, quietly produced one of the best sci-fi action flick in years?

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Pacific Rim (or: This movie makes no sense and I don't care)

Go see Pacific Rim. Seriously. As your Lawyer, I advise you to go to the cinema, buy yourself a ticket and see Pacific Rim. Nothing else at the cinema will offer you as much fun as this film will in the two hours you spend watching it. Just... Just leave your brains at the door, k?

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