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Cinophile: Heavy Metal
Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, mixed with a dash of the old ultra-violence. Animated movies generally serve to entertain bored toddlers and giddy fans with cutesy characters and flowery plotlines. Far...
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Cinophile: Run Lola Run
What if the next twenty minutes will decide the rest of your life? What would you do? And how would it change the lives of those you bump into while frantically trying to accomplish the impossible?...
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Cinophile: Johnny Mnemonic
It’s probably the best Keanu Reeves sci-fi movie ever made. Sure, he’s certainly been in BETTER sci-fi adventures. But did those have brain data smuggling, body modification, gesture-based Internet,...
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Cinophile – Braindead (Dead Alive)
Zombies have been done to death. From shuffling to sprinting, from cannibalism to teenage crushes, from comics to hit TV shows – been there, done that. But even if you are about to retire from the...
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Cinophile – The Crow
Think about it: The Crow would never have been a success today. It is too dark, too morbid and no challenge for any cosplay aficionado hoping to blow away convention fanboys. Despite coming from a...
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Cinophile – Halloween
This being the season of sugar, scares and sexy costumes, let’s give a nod not only to the film of the same name, but which defined a huge chunk of horrordom. The slasher sub-genre has been a little...
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Cinophile – Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
Not so long ago Top Gear proved that overweight, out of shape middle-aged men can reach the North Pole. But their achievement is not nearly as impressive when you consider that in 1994 three queens...
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Cinophile – Hard Boiled
“Give a guy a gun, he thinks he’s Superman. Give him two and he thinks he’s God.” Does Inspector ‘Tequila’ Yuen think he is immortal? Well, he’s certainly not afraid to die. That impression might be...
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Cinophile – Vanishing Point
Kowalski is a speed-popping racing man with a car to deliver in record time. Between him and his destination sits the American Establishment and all its spirit-squashing rules. With a Dodge Challenger...
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Cinophile – Top Secret!
When it comes to parody films, nobody has quite matched the prowess of ZAZ, the name for Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. The exception is perhaps Mel Brooks, but we can have a big debate...
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Cinophile – The Toxic Avenger
When you watch a lot of movies, particularly bad ones, you eventually develop a stigma – a type of affliction that is impossible to remedy. Once you recommend a movie, your better half will look at you...
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Cinophile – From Dusk till Dawn
Today everyone hates Twilight, because it doesn’t have ‘real’ vampires. Which is a load of nonsense, since what we regard as proper vampires were mostly invented by the movies anyway. In fact,...
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Cinophile: The Professional
So much can change in twenty years. Today Natalie Portman is Luke Skywalker’s mom, Luc Besson keeps expanding Liam Neeson’s very particular set of skills, Jean Reno is Inspector Clouseau’s sidekick and...
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Cinophile: Wheels On Meals
Everyone knows the name of Jackie Chan. He is without question the most famous martial arts actor since Bruce Lee. And like Lee, his style of movie has an undeniable signature to it. But there is a...
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Cinophile: Air America
Movies have a strong tradition with the crazy side of the military world, be it the deadpan Jarhead, the weird Men Who Stare At Goats, the zany Good Morning Vietnam or the greatest of them all, MASH....
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Cinophile: Krull
The tale of the prince saving the princess from some type of nebulous evil is a well-worn saga. But how often do you get to see that with flying mountains, weird aliens and Liam Neeson? Krull achieved...
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Cinophile: Kids
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone! Well, Pink Floyd doesn’t need to worry about this particular brat pack. They don’t really care what you think, which is why to this day Kids remains one of the most...
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Cinophile: Visitor Q
Here’s a neat party trick. Invite your friends over for an avant garde evening of movie watching. Tell them you have a Japanese take on Mary Poppins – a little more edgy and without any animated...
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Cinophile: The Thing
Being trapped in the Antarctic is daunting enough, so imagine being trapped there alongside a shapeshifting horror from beyond… The Thing’s appeal is easy to illustrate. When it was released in 1982,...
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Cinophile: Duel
Road rage weighing 40 tons in Steven Spielberg’s debut film… It only takes 25 minutes and you are back in the jungle. All the threads supporting your comfortable modern life are cut in a flash. Those...
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