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It’s hard writing a review for Taken, as it became a pop culture phenomenon… well, at least THAT Liam Neeson‘s speech about “a particular set of skills”. It’s hard writing a review because people often forget that this movie is more than that but not too much more. And that, believe it or not, is this movie’s…
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I have always liked animated movies, but for whatever reason, Bolt has been escaping me ever since it came out. I’ve always (roughly) known what it was about (a superhero dog), but I have never seen it. That is until a few weeks ago, thanks to Disney+ (say what you want about Disney, but it’s handy to…
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I know this is something I say a lot. But I don’t think it ever fit as much as with this film. Jumper could be the poster child of how it looks to have a truly great idea executed in such an average way. You almost get unreasonably angry. Because you can easily imagine a much better…
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After the mediocrity that was Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008, my review here) I have finally started to watch this TV show, as I’ve heard it’s much, much better and almost its own thing, compared to the movie. The first episode in and I have discovered something interesting – most of these episodes are anthologies,…
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Before getting into this review properly, I need to start with a bit of a story from my life, that should shed some light on why this movie (despite all its flaws) is one of my favourite action movies of the late 2000’s. When I was in high school, I was pretty decent student, but…
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I remember watching this movie back in 2008 and thinking it was the most average Star Wars film I have ever seen (the fact that didn’t change even with the sequel trilogy being made since then, which is weird considering the “passion” around Episode VIII, as I’ve written about here) and re-watching it now, before…
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