2008 January archive at Block17 - for love, not money.
The Golden Compass
by terminaljunkie on January 27th, 2008

I had high hopes for this particular franchise, which in the end it is what the movie studios are looking to deliver. A good cast and some excellent source material from author Philip Pullman, with…..

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Hitman
by terminaljunkie on January 23rd, 2008

So when did you see a movie that translated from the game that looked and felt like you thought it should? Never I hear you cry…………….me too! Welcome then, to another in the long list…..

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Atonement
by terminaljunkie on January 22nd, 2008

I’m not fond of chic flicks, but I sometimes watch them to remind myself what I am missing, and then hopefully it keeps me away again for a while. Now I am not for one…..

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Beowulf
by terminaljunkie on January 18th, 2008

I’ll start by saying that I know Beowulf / Grendel / Grendel’s mother from the poem, and I was somewhat terrified of the monster of that prose, and thought Beowulf to be a kind of…..

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Daywatch
by terminaljunkie on January 14th, 2008

Brilliant film. This version has English as well as the Russian with English subtitle option. Last time I watched in with the latter, this time in English to see how it came over. To be…..

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Good Luck Chuck
by terminaljunkie on January 11th, 2008

I’ll keep this short and sweet, I wish the movie had been as good to me.

This is charmless, grossed out, soft porn with nothing, and I mean nothing to recommend it. Some of you…..

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Aliens Vs Predator:Requiem
by terminaljunkie on January 05th, 2008

After the catastrophic first AVP, I was dismayed to note that the second one was to be made by a second rate team of special effects monkeys, who have no pedigree in film making -…..

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No Country for Old Men
by terminaljunkie on January 03rd, 2008

When you watch a movie that is as magnetic and taut, yet darkly unsettling, as ‘No Country for Old Men’, you have to revise reality just a little to see the landscape created for the…..

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