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Movie Watch: Mission: Impossible 4

Let’s face it, a Mission Impossible movie without Tom Cruise would be a non-starter, so when rumours indicated Brad Pitt might step into the role for a fourth outing of the popular franchise – we knew it was really only a matter of time before the studios realised who they need for this billion dollar [...]

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Audio CD: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Audio CD: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

“We Are Not Alone”
This is “The Collector’s Edition Soundtrack”, from John Williams, of the music from the Steven Spielberg 1977 (yes, 1977!) movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” which saw Richard Dreyfuss and family dealing with the after effects of his encounter with a UFO.
It’s fascinating that a soundtrack as classic as this [...]

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Movie Watch: Legion

The ultimate battle of good versus evil takes place at an “out of the way” diner.
The 2010 movie, Legion, features Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code, Wimbledon), Tyrese Gibson (Transformers, Death Race), Dennis Quaid (Frequency, The Day After Tomorrow), Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 3:10 To Yuma), Charles S. Dutton (Threshold, Gothika), Lucas Black (Jarhead, [...]

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The 2009 Remake of The Taking Of Pelham 123

The 2009 Remake of The Taking Of Pelham 123

“The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” movie, based on the book by John Godey, was a classic movie for Walter Matthau in 1974, as the ordinary man thrown into extra-ordinary circumstances. Matthau played a transport cop who had to stop a bunch of gunmen who had taken control of the New York City subway [...]

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Movie Watch: Repo Men

“You’re Repo – they’ll come for you too”

Surprisingly, not another movie remake (read re-imagination) this year is Repo Men, scheduled for release in April 2010. Speculation was rife that this was a remake of the 1984 popular cult hit Emilio Estevez vehicle (geddit!?) which dealt with shady people who repossess cars (but don’t look [...]

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Movie: The Time Traveler’s Wife

Movie: The Time Traveler’s Wife

Over the last few years, the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, became a world wide sensation and an Audio CD soon followed. It’s of little surprise then that a movie would be made of the story – which was released in 2009 under the same title, and we recently got to catch [...]