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Happy Feet
When I first saw the trailer for Happy Feet almost a year ago, I wanted to watch it right away. The trailer didn’t really give much information about the story (just the fact that there were dancing and singing penguins), but it seemed fun, funny, and enjoyable. Most of all, it set itself apart [...]
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Inconvenient Truths
Recently Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was finally being shown in Metro Manila after a half-year lag from its release in the US. Not being a giant blockbuster movie that’s so good that we have to watch it simultaneously with the rest of the world like, say, Superman Returns, the movie had to wait until [...]
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Marvel vs. DC
When I first watched the trailer for The Prestige, the immediate thought that popped into my head (a thought I probably share with a lot of my contemporaries) was,
‘Wolverine takes on the Batman in 19th century London! How cool is that?’
Other than that, all I knew about the movie was that this was a story about two rival magicians and it had David Bowie as Nikola Tesla.
I was sold. [...]
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The Inevitable Review
So.
Spider-man.
Hm.
Well, it’s certainly not as good as Snow Patrol’s video for ‘Signal Fire’, but it’s not as bad as other people think it is.
I don’t think it joins the ranks of Batman Forever, Superman 3, Blade Trinity, X-Men 3, as part of the ‘third sequel comic movie curse’. For all it’s faults, it’s not THAT [...]
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