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  • Man of Steel 2013

    ★★★★ Watched 14 Jun, 2013 3

    To qualify the following few words I'm going to write on Snyder's latest comicbook adaptation, I am a fan of Superman as a character. What makes him so interesting to me is how flawed he can be, despite being pretty much a God among men. He is the ultimate being. The ubermensch. Whilst he himself may be practically invulnerable physically, it's the people around him that he cares for, the love he feels for friends, family and the species in…

  • Children of the Corn 1984

    ★½ Watched 12 Jun, 2013 2

    Quite how this adaptation of a short Stephen King novella warranted an 18 certificate, I'm not sure. Pretty much nobody actually dies in this film, and those that do, you don't see it.

    Not that I'm lusting after images of kids killing adults! Just that I think if you're going to make a horror film, the least you can do is show the horror.

    I felt sure I'd seen Children of the Corn when I was younger, but none of…

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  • Crash 2005

    Watched 16 Dec, 2012 42

    Wow what a revelation. Apparently black people can be racist of white people, white people can be racist of black people, black people can be racist of black people, black people can be racist of hispanic people, white people can be racist of middle-eastern people, middle eastern people can be racist of hispanic people, hispanic people are nice, white people can't be racist of white people.

    BUT.

    Those same black people can be nice to white people, those white people…

  • First Blood 1982

    ★★★★ Watched 15 May, 2012 5

    I kind of thought it would be a mindless action film where Sly goes around killing the bad guys in the jungle with his machine gun and that's about it. Like Predator, I guess, just without the Predator.

    I was wrong. It's excellent. I found it very entertaining, and also quite sad. Sure, Rambo is this bad-ass, super elite soldier who can kill a man practically by looking at him with his wonky face, but I never realised there was…