A trend has emerged where franchise filmmaking is concerned. Often, the second part of a given series of movies winds up being better than the first. So much time is spent in part one on the exposition necessary to set up the character’s background and situation, that there’s little space left for anything truly interesting […]
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Boys walks an emotional tightrope
The premise of Scott Hicks’ The Boys are Back has movie-of-the-week written all over it. Joe Warr (Clive Owen), a dad who’s hardly ever around, finds himself adrift when he’s faced with raising his young son (Nicholas McAnulty) after his wife succumbs to cancer. Barely coping at this, he’s forced to come to terms with […]
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Pandorum’s reach exceeds its grasp
There’s no doubt that director Christian Alvert is doing his level best to duplicate Alien with his outer space, creature feature Pandorum. From its setting (a vast spaceship adrift in the cosmos), characters (a ragtag crew of misfits) to its monster (a horrific, carnivorous creature), this is a rip-off of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic if […]
