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Body of Lies will probably get credit as the first Iraq War movie that people actually bother to see. It’s misleading, though, to assume that the movie has anything to do with politics in general, or that war specifically; it’s mostly a thriller involving double-crosses and moral ambiguity, using the bombed-out desert as its backdrop. […]

Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race is based, in name at least, on the Roger Corman cult classic Death Race 2000. Because the original is something of an underground favorite, fans have been quick to cry sacrilege on the new version, but I can’t help thinking that if there’s any man worthy of remaking a Corman movie it has […]

Time for me to own up. I never thought this movie would happen. The first Hellboy wasn’t exactly a box office smash and let’s face it, selling a superhero movie about a character who looks like Satan was never a sure thing to begin with. Yet I’ve never […]

The Dark Knight is unlike any superhero movie that has come before it, and that includes the stellar Batman Begins. While 2005’s origin story was a breakthrough with its gothic visuals and harsh realistic tone, director Christopher Nolan’s next entry in the series shatters what we’ve known as the walls of the superhero genre. An […]