Tag: 2008

Eagle Eye (2008) – Review

When your chickens come home to roost, you strike while the iron is hot, and after teen thriller Disturbia became something of a sleeper hit,

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Quarantine (2008) – Review

With only a precious few examples, the notion to make English language remakes of foreign films, simply because some audiences can’t be bothered to follow

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – Review

The year is 2008 and Star Wars is essentially in limbo. George Lucas’ flawed prequel saga has yet to be reassessed via decades of memes

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Body Of Lies (2008) – Review

A common remark aimed at the career of Ridley Scott is that no matter what the diverse subject of the movie is, the veteran director

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Valkyrie (2008) – Review

How do you make a thriller work when the ending is common knowledge? That’s the conundrum facing Tom Cruise, Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie when

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The Ruins (2008) – Review

If left untreated, killer plant movies can spring up like weeds. There’s the Triffids of course and we certainly can’t forget the voracious appetite of

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Outlander (2008) – Review

Doesn’t it feel sometimes that concocting a screenplay feels like someone frantically trying to invent a brand new cocktail from scratch? The act of throwing

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Righteous Kill (2008) – Review

It’s an inescapable fact that nobody’s perfect. Think of your most cherished cinematic idol and chances are they screwed the pooch at least one time

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The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) – Review

Sometimes all the good intentions in the world can’t stop a project from ending up weirdly dull or somewhat awkward. While remaking bona fide classics

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Pontypool (2008) – Review

Sometimes a movie comes along that defies conventional explanation. Whether it’s the ideas that lay in the central concept, or the way the film is

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Transporter 3 (2008) – Review

You have to give Jason Statham credit, I mean when you look at his filmography the man has multiple franchises that he’s fronted over his

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Taken (2008) – Review

Maybe Liam Neeson’s sudden veer into action movies shouldn’t have surprised us as much as it did back in 2008 when he showed up in

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The Strangers (2008) – Review

For decades, the slasher movie seemed to operate on a particular set of tropes, forged in the blood of countless teens who thought that getting

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The Wrestler (2008) – Review

Until Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler stepped through the ropes to worldwide acclaim back in 2008, transferring the weird world of “Sports Entertainment” to the silver

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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) – Review

If a string of inferior Robocop sequels taught us anything, it’s that the satirical eye of Paul Verhoven is tougher to obtain than the Holy

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Bad Biology (2008) – Review

After the lumpy, deranged antics of Basket Case 3 landed in 1991, the cinematic career of sleeze auteur Frank Henenlotter seemed to have stopped deader

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Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008) – Review

If killer animal franchises were Infinity Stones then someone should’ve sent the Avengers to have a stern chat with the Syfy Channel a few years

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Death Race (2008) – Review

It’s a common fact that when anyone feels the need to defend the patchy career of Paul W.S. Anderson, they’ll slap a mention of Event

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WALL•E (2008) – Review

In barely over a decade, Pixar had established itself as the premier animation house, but despite its innovations in storytelling and its commitment to getting

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The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) – Review

After the frenetic action gumbo of The Mummy Returns – a hyperbolic action/adventure that placed exhausting action sequences next to career worst examples of CGI

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