Adventure Films
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RoboCop (2014) (PG-13)
I feel like a sucker. I liked the Robocop remake. I make it a point not to read reviews of movies I’m reviewing, because I have this lingering hope that maybe there’s something incorruptible and true and creative and my own, right down at the core of me. So I haven’t read any reviews. But […]
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Pacific Rim (PG-13)
I remember as a child having near hallucinogenic nightmares after watching Jurassic Park for the first time on our old black and white, sixteen-inch television. After not being able to sleep at all the night after, I wanted to watch it again the next day. Such is the magic of cinema, I suppose. A well […]
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG-13)
Two FilmFisher reviewer’s took on the latest Ben Stiller picture and took away comparable, but distinct impressions. Please enjoy both sides. Tom’s take: The lonely individual’s flight from mediocrity has, in our time, provided the motif of many films, most of which fail to rise above mediocrity. The patriarch of the genre is The Man […]
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The New World (PG-13)
When The New World arrived in 2005, it was met by two types of reviews. Many critics understood it as an epic work of poetic genius, offering glowing praises for the revolutionary storytelling and arresting eye of the film’s writer/director, Terrence Malick. However, more than a few critics and most moviegoers found the film wanting. […]