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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Five Stars
The story opens millions of years ago at the Dawn of Man in Africa on Earth. A pack of apes are going about their daily mundane routines until one morning, they wake up to find a strange, black, looming “monolith” object standing over them. Curious, they gather around and touch it – Moments later, they have learned how to break things, make use of their surroundings, and kill other animals for food. The monolith has the capabilities of advancing other beings through touch.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): 2.5 Stars
The film picks up after the original 60s TV show with the USS Enterprise undergoing some reappraising procedures while in Earth’s orbit, former Captain James T. Kirk is now an Admiral as well as the Chief of Starfleet Operations. The conflict in this film begins when a massive cloud of energy that’s housing a powerful alien life force is discovered to be on a course heading right for mother Earth, we are led to believe it is evil due to the fact that it destroys a few Klingon and Starfleet ships in the opening. And guess what? It’s the USS Enterprise’s lucky day as it is the closest ship to intercept this cloud. Not only do they need to intercept it, but they need to test the ship’s new transit systems while en-route.
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Franklyn: Fantastic Fantasy
A review of “Franklyn”, the 2008 Fantasy/Drama/Thriller/Romance written and directed by Gerald McMorrow and starring Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Bernard Hill, and Sam Riley.
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Twilight
The vampire myth gets a twist and a great love story in one movie.
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The Reality of Fantasy
The reality of fantasy associated with the leading men in movies.
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Why Conan the Barbarian is the Greatest Film Ever
Staring at the title I have now written at the top of my page, I realise now that I really must justify the disputable statement I have just declared to be true.
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Inkheart (US/Germany/UK 2008)
A young girl inherits her father’s wondrous talent of bringing characters to life by reading their stories aloud. Father and daughter, together with her aunt and a fictional hero, strive to prevent a storybook villain from spreading his terror throughout the real world.
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Review: The Haunting of Molly Hartley
One of The Omen’s Bastard Children Further Defiles a Genre That Was Already Sliding Into the Abyss.
