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Barb Wire (1996)

Barb Wire (1996)
Rating: ★★
Nov 21, 2003Anarchic Future/Leather-Clad Bimbo
Enjoyably silly comic-book adaptation with a pneumatically-inflated Pamela Anderson playing the titular bounty hunter in an anarchic future. You cannot complain that this is a film that delivers exactly what it promises
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The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)

The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 15, 2001Mad Scientist Creates Beast Men
A legendary cinematic train wreck filled with behind the scenes stories of fired directors and star egos. Despite all of this, this remake of the H.G. Wells novel emerges as a well made and watchable film
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Rating: ★★
Jun 20, 2002Space Opera
The second of George Lucas’s Stars Wars prequels is no particular improvement. The romance is stiff and awkward, badly written while the effects sequences seem to be running out of new things to do and so just up the scale of what has happened before with so much going on it reaches a point of visual overload
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Rating: ★★★
May 22, 2005Space Opera
The last of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy and the last opportunity for him to get it right, which he generally does. The effects are expert but are not allowed to dominate as much as they did previously and the focus has come back onto the story and Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader
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River Queen (2005)

River Queen (2005)
Rating: ★★
Feb 25, 2006Maori Wars Historical Epic/Precognitive Dream
Vincent Ward is one of the directors who should be granted more opportunities to make films. This is his least satisfying work, a troubled behind-the-scenes epic set during New Zealand's Maori Wars with some Magical Realist touches
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Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2016)

Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2016)
Rating: ★★
Sep 29, 2017Planetary Adventure
A film naming itself after an entire genre either has massive ambition or huge pretensions. Beyond the grandiose title, this is not much more than a better budgeted version of an 80s planetary adventure
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Moana (2016)

Moana (2016)
Rating: ★★
Feb 11, 2017Disney Animation/Pacific Island Mythology
Despite being a huge box-office and critical success and being nominated for an Academy Award, I am in a minority in disliking this. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that it appropriates the culture from my neck of the woods and only spins it out as a series of glib jokes and one-liners
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