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Primer (2004)

added 2005 february 09
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"Excellent time travel debut from American auteur."

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added 2004 october 24
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"A violent and hilarious satire on reality TV. Not be confused with The Running Man."

Versus (2000)

added 2004 september 19
Movie Reviews

"Bloody but surprisingly dull Japanese zombie flick."

Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind (2004)

added 2004 may 12
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"A brilliant, unsentimental romantic comedy."

Autobiography

added 2004 may 04
Iain Banks | 4 comments

"© Iain Banks"

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added 2004 march 06
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Luminal (2003)

added 2004 february 05
Movie Reviews

"A Continental art house film so stereotypically pretentious it is almost self-parody."

Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

added 2003 april 11
Movie Reviews | 2 comments

"Sloppy sequel to the excellent Battle Royale"

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added 2003 july 21
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"Natali's follow up to Cube doesn't go anywhere."

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added 2003 november 03
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"Impressive character based science fiction"

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added 2003 june 01
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"Spielberg disengages his brain and produces an incoherent mess."

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added 2003 june 01
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"Japanese/Polish virtual reality strangeness"

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added 2002 october 20
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"Fatally undermined Philip K Dick adaption"

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

added 2002 april 10
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"An attractive, empty sf noir failure."

Dead Air (Condensed in the style of the orginal)

added 2002 september 22
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"Radio shock-jock fails to learn that less is often more"

The Cell (2000)

added 2002 july 28
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"An excellent blend of virtual reality and serial killer tropes"

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added 2002 july 28
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"A confused, contradictory space adventure."

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added 2002 june 13
Movie Reviews | 4 comments

"Finally an intelligent low budget sf film"

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added 2002 april 25
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"David Cronenberg's typically gooey take on virtual reality"

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added 2002 november 04
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"The man who indirectly spawned all this bollocks"

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added 2002 june 04
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added 2002 july 01
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"An anthology of stories from Britian's leading sf magazine, Interzone"

The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)

added 2002 january 01
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"The first part of Peter Jackson's adaption of Lord Of The Rings"

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added 2001 august 21
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An Overview Of The Works Of Iain Banks

added 2001 august 20
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"John Clute gives a whirlwind overview of Banks' pre-Feersum Endjinn novels."