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  • Erin Brockovich
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  • Daddy, Father and Papa

  • They Live

    ★★

  • The Bone Collector

    ★★★★

  • Skyscraper

    ★★

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  • Daddy, Father and Papa

    Daddy, Father and Papa

    *watched on YouTube, despite the English subtitles being out of sync*

    There are some key differences: the little boy, Benny is more in the vein of Home Alone's Kevin, he gets kidnapped by two men (in Fathers' Day, Scott runs away and runs into the bad guys) and the film is less comedic and heavier in tone. In all, it bears little similarity and resemblance to Fathers' Day and Les Comperes, even though they all share the same plot.

    I…

  • They Live

    They Live

    ★★

    If Mars Attacks meets aspects of Total Recall and throws in a sunglasses gimmick, we would get something such as this. Set in Los Angeles shortly, the rich have got richer whilst the poor and lower class get poorer and become desolate; a construction worker/drifter in John Nada dons a pair of sunglasses after stumbling upon them and through its lenses, he sees subliminal and anti-societal messages and slogans and what they are truly saying about the state of 1980s…

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  • Crazy Rich Asians

    Crazy Rich Asians

    if this film didn't have 'Asians' in the title but something else, had a White cast and Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, these so-called critics raving about this film would be saying this is predictable, cliched and throwaway. So, what's the difference? Why just because it has an Asian cast, should it be exempt from any form of criticism and flaws that it has?

    Yes I am Asian, but I am not a huge admirer of most…

  • Hard Target

    Hard Target

    ★★★★★

    Hong Kong director John Woo made his mark back in his native country with hits such as The Killer and Hard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat back in the late 1980s. It wasn't long until he arrived in Hollywood that he unleashed his brand of Western-based high -octane violence and heavy-handed gunplay to the masses. 1993's Hard Target was Woo's U.S debut and his first film that starred predominantly Western-based actors. The character of Chance was originally going to be played…