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Jun122018 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Movie Flashback: 1970s Shock Waves

Rose (Brooke Adams) is found alone and adrift on a small boat. She begins to recount what happened to her and her yacht mates, and through flashback, we follow along to see what happened. It appears forty years ago, at the end of WWII, the Nazis were creating a super soldier. The allies ran into this group, and it’s the only squad that the allies hadn't recorded a kill against. These super soldiers fought without guns with super human strength. This is all told in the opening narration, and it’s quite effective in setting the mood. It turns out, these soldiers are zombies, and they are currently lying dormant at the bottom of the sea. This is of course unbeknownst to our yachters, led by the captain, played by John Carradine. As you can imagine, the yacht ends up off course and being blind...

Ramones Film Review: End of the Century

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In the mid 1970s, a bunch of outcasts from the New York borough of Queens severely and irreverently altered the course of pop culture with their amateur, genius bubblegum rock 'n' roll. Calling themselves The Ramones, they helped to kick-start the very concept of punk rock, proving beyond question it's possible to play timeless, catchy songs without being instrumental virtuosos. Though they changed the way the world thinks about and creates music, The Ramones remained an underground phenomenon for their entire decades-long career. The Ramones as People, Not Stars Assuming some familiarity from their viewers with the story of The Ramones, filmmakers Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields leave out dry facts, opting instead to dig into the juicier human side of things. They provide a ...

Film Review: ‘Jason Bourne’- pretty good until its flat finish

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Up until a narratively unrealistic and logistically strange climactic cruiser chase through Las Vegas that feels like a sop to the Fast and Furious group, Jason Bourne is an immersing reimmersion in the brutal and baffling universe of Matt Damon’s shadowy mystery operation. With chief Paul Green grass enthusiastically slicing the verging on unremitting activity to without a doubt the bone in his trademark design and some strong new characters blended in, Universal’s establishment refresher ought to have no issue being re-grasped by long-lasting arrangement fans nine years on (not including the tepid non-Damon stopgap The Bourne Legacy in 2012). Intense Christopher Rouse Despite the fact that The Bourne Ultimatum hypothetically determined the root issues were driving the title charact...