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Harrison Bergeron (1995)

Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Rating: ★★
May 1, 2010Future Where Everybody Must Be Average/Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation
Adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut story about a future where everyone must be average wherein Vonnegut's farcical satire is completely misjudged and played straight
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Earth’s Final Hours (2011)

Earth’s Final Hours (2011)
Rating: ★★
Aug 19, 2012End of the World/Disaster Movie
Another Syfy Channel low-budget disaster film. This creates a fascinating if scientifically dubious end of the world premise about a white hole but spends the show on the routine stuff of car chases and gunfights
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Seeds of Destruction (2011)

Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Rating: ★
Mar 26, 2014Massive Runaway Plant Roots
Cheap Syfy Channel CGI disaster spectacle about runaway plant roots – from the Garden of Eden, no less – growing to endanger the entire planet. Utterly formulaic and seeming to consist of no more than canned pieces of cliche action
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Rufus (2012)

Rufus (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 6, 2017Smalltown Vampire
Not that the title gives you any reason to expect it but this is actually a vampire film, one of the rare entries in a genre that is looking very anemic these days. An original and quite interesting smalltown take that resembles George Romero's Martin and Let the Right One In
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Upside Down (2012)

Upside Down (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 28, 2013Two Worlds with Gravity in Opposing Directions
The frustration of a film that has a scientifically nonsensical premise - two planets where gravity is oriented in opposing directions - that is also surprisingly imaginatively made. This creates some genuinely amazing visuals and designs of the two worlds and showing the people on them interacting
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
Rating: ★★
Aug 20, 2013Secret World of Magic Amid the Everyday
A Young Adult fantasy adaptation that fells a Harry Potter wannabe repackaged with the brooding teen romanticism of the Twilight series, all under a director whose indifferent handling fails to animate any of the material
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The Colony (2013)

The Colony (2013)
Rating: ★★
Apr 11, 2013Grim Survival in a Frozen Future
This creates a fascinatingly different future - a world of grim survivalism amid a new Ice Age in the aftermath of Global Warming. The look of the film is fantastic, only to fritter it on an action focus and Mad Max cliches
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Hellions (2015)

Hellions (2015)
Rating: ★★
Jan 10, 2016Masked Children Pursue a Girl on Halloween Night
The return of director of Pontypool should be anticipated. But this kills a near-foolproof premise – masked children come after a heroine on Halloween night wanting her unborn baby – with a pink lighting scheme
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Awakening the Zodiac (2017)

Awakening the Zodiac (2017)
Rating: ★★
Nov 13, 2017Hunting the Zodiac Killer in the Present Day
This comes with a great hook – a couple buy up the contents of a defaulted storage locker only to find film reels taken by The Zodiac Killer, leading them on a pursuit of his identity
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