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Hot Fuzz

March 17th 2008 12:00
Starring - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Timothy Dalton.

Hot Fuzz is the next movie from the Shaun of the Dead team and does to the Action genre what Shaun of the Dead did for the Horror genre. More specifically, it completely sends up almost every convention that the Action genre has but also manages to tell a compelling story at the same time.

Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is the best officer in the London Police Department - he holds the speed record for the police fitness course, his arrest-rate is four-hundred percent higher than the rest of the department combined and he is the undefeated champion in numerous outside work activities (Judo, chess and fencing among them). He was so good that his superiors (Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy) have to get rid of him because he's making the rest of the department look bad.

Angel gets shipped off to idyllic Sandford, statistically the safest village in England where there hasn't been a recorded murder in over twenty years. He gets partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost) who is Angel's antithesis - fat, bumbling and naïve.

After a spate of suspiciously gruesome 'accidental deaths, Angel suspects homicide and teams up with Butterman to find out what's really happening in quiet little Sandford..

Amazing acting from Simon Pegg and the rest of the cast; highlights were Timothy Dalton' sneering clichéd chief suspect and Nick Frost's naïve police constable. Numerous cameos through out the film make it well worth repeat viewing - Peter Jackson as a homicidal Santa and Cate Blanchett as Angel's masked ex-girlfriend among others.

A worthy 'sequel' to Shaun of the Dead and destined to become a classic, Hot Fuzz is a must see for anyone who likes their laughs 'fast and furious' with a story that won't 'die hard' and a film you'll still be talking about during 'rush hour'.

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Equilibrium

March 14th 2008 12:00
Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Watson and Taye Diggs

In the style of V for Vendetta, The Matrix and Minority Report comes another window in to our future, and it's a grim view indeed.

In the early days of the 21st Century, mankind initiated World War III and the survivors concluded that we as a species couldn't survive a fourth. They resolved to maintain peace at any cost; emotions were outlawed as well as any of the things that triggered them - music, art and literature.
To this end, a special breed of police were created, a zero-tolerance unit assigned to find and eliminate all transgressors of the new laws; the Cleric. When Preston, the Cleric's top enforcer (Bale) misses an Interval - a dose of an emotion-blocking drug- he begins to wonder if being human is really such a terrible crime.

Although Equilibrium was released in 2002, it has aged remarkably well in a genre where most films are temporary in nature; watched only until a newer flick with bigger bangs and more bullets comes to the big screen. Bale brings his usual intensity to the quiet loner that we've seen him own in Batman Begins and The Prestige while Diggs brings grim determination to Brandt, Preston's partner.

Equilibrium is well worth buying and it's relatively old so you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to find it in stores for any more than fifteen dollars at the most. My only regret is that I missed this one on the big screen.

Four and a half out of five stars
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Ghost Rider

March 12th 2008 02:27
Starring Nicholas Cage, Peter Fonda, Eva Mendes and Wes Bentley

Written by Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil and Elektra), Ghost Rider is the latest offering in the Comic-Book-Adaptation market.

Johnny Blaze and his father are stunt motorcyclists at a travelling carnival. When he discovers his father is dying, Johnny sells his soul to the demon Mephistopheles in exchange for curing Barton Blaze's cancer.

Flash forward about fifteen years and Johnny is haunted by the death of his father in a motorcycling accident. Johnny pushes himself to preform more and more death-defying stunts without regard for his own safety.

Mephistopheles reappears and calls in his half of the bargain - cursing Blaze with the Ghost Rider, a spirit of vengeance and justice. The demon promises to return Blaze's soul if he hunts down Blackheart, Mephistopheles' nemeses and son.

This film tries so hard to be the next Spider-Man and ends up the next Hulk. Whether it was the majorly unsympathetic Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes constantly having to share all her screen time with her cleavage or the spectacularly unimpressive 'Hidden' (Fallen Angels whom have hidden themselves in the elements Earth, Water and Wind), the movie just doesn't achieve the Action/Horror feel it was trying for.

Which isn't to say Ghost Rider isn't a fantastic movie, I haven't laughed so much since I watched Dylan Moran's show Monster. Not worth the price of a cinema ticket unless you're a die-hard fan of the comics or any of the actors but perhaps worth a rental once it's released on DVD.
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The I.T. Crowd

March 1st 2008 06:55
Created and directed by Graham Linehan (co-writer of Black Books and Father Ted), The I.T. Crowd centres on Roy (Chris O'Dowd), Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade) and Jen (Katherine Parkinson), the three of whom make up Reynholm Industries' entire Information Technology department.
Jen is an upwardly mobile, career-minded girl who has an astonishing propensity for lying if necessary to achieve her goals. She is also absolutely smitten with the Ally McBeal-style unisex bathrooms that Reynholm Industries displays.
Roy is almost the complete opposite of Jen - a slobby nerd who remains uncaring in his job as an I.T. Technician as well as most other areas of his life. However, he does show true competency when and where he needs to


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Skulduggery Pleasant

February 27th 2008 02:52
Gordon Edgley, the famous horror novelist dies and leaves the vast majority of his estate to his niece Stephanie, a perfectly ordinary twelve year old girl with a higher than average level of intelligence and a healthy disregard for authority.

At the reading of Gordon's will, Stephanie meets a gentleman wearing a very large hat, a tan overcoat and big sunglasses who introduces himself as Skulduggery Pleasant. Stephanie is immediately curious about Skulduggery and he congratulates her when she is given the good news of her inheritance. In the excitement of owning her own home already at age twelve, Stephanie forgets about Skulduggery and turns her attention to exploring the huge house


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BioShock

February 27th 2008 02:40
I'll be honest with you, I'm not a hardcore FPS gamer, I didn't grow up on Doom and my acquaintance with Duke Nuke'Em consisted entirely of a friend showing me that you could, if that was your thing, use the toilet.

To add insult to blasphemy, I didn't even know what System Shock was, so when a "spiritual successor" was announced, I shrugged and went back to bashing zombies with guitars. After listening to both Tycho from Penny Arcade and Ethan from Ctrl Alt Del do nothing but rant about the game, I caved in and downloaded the demo


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First. Post. Ever.

February 27th 2008 02:28
Well, here we go on another foray into the wonderful world of the interweb. Today we're venturing out into the world of the aspiring professional writer.

First thing's first, I should probably introduce myself, I'm Shaun although you can refer to my by my screen name 'Voxael'. I'm rather proud of it seeing as I thought it up all by myself (well, with the help of Babelfish and a limited knowledge of suffixes anyway


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