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Blame it on the Mayas. Because some people think their calender ends in 2012 and believe therefore the world ends in 2012, Roland Emmerich has decided to destroy what’s left of Mother Earth after Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow. All the usual cardboard characters are assembled to live through (or die during) [...]

** Alert: Minor Spoilers ** In this remake of 1974 Taking of Pelham One Two Three, reckless gangster Ryder (John Travolta) kidnaps a New York subway train with a gang of faceless goons. Ryder demands 10 Million Dollars within one hour, or he will kill one passenger for each minute over time, and he won’t [...]

“Brüno”, a gay Austrian fashion reporter, is the latest fictional character from Sacha Baron Cohen’s Da Ali G Show to appear on the big screen, after Borat and Ali G himself in Ali G Indahouse – The Movie. In Da Ali G Show Bruno’s shtick is to expose his pompous celeb interview partners as vacuous, [...]

The sequel to a movie based on toy robots. Directed by Michael Bay. There are two categories of people out there – those who will be thrilled by that pitch, and those who will be annoyed and fear the worst. If you belong to the first category, then no matter what, you will like this [...]

After three Terminator films and three Terminators sent to the past (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Patrick, Kristanna Loken) to kill John Connor’s mother/John Connor/John Connor’s lieutenants we finally see more than just glimpses of the future where the Terminators came from. But it seems to be quite a different future from the one we and John [...]