Review: September 5

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  December 5, 2024 @ 9:41am

There are no spoilers to this film – it's a true story and we know how this ends. On September 5 in 1972 at the 20th Olympic Games, the first games held in Germany since the war ended 27 years earlier, terrorists belonging to Black September abducted eleven Israeli athletes in Olympic Village.

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Review: Gladiator II

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  November 11, 2024 @ 9:00am

Okay, where to start with Gladiator II?

Let me preface all this by saying I'm a big fan of much of the early work of Ridley Scott. The Duelists is an incredible epic story based on history, Alien is a marvel of horror twisting sci-fi using the wind from Star Wars to shift the genre like one of Gieger's designs.

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Review: Transformers One

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  September 15, 2024 @ 1:07pm

I am a Generation One Transformers child. I grew up riding my BMX to the store using my paper route money and allowance to buy Transformers action figures (this is back when child labour was only semi-frowned upon and letting kids go door to door at 5 AM multiple days a week was okay).

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Review: You Gotta Believe

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  September 1, 2024 @ 11:00pm

This weekend saw the opening of the sports film You Gotta Believe. Every generation has a "sports film" – for some it's Field of Dreams, for others it's A League of Their Own or The Sandlot, and for me it was Bad News Bears.

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Review: A Quiet Place: Day One

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 27, 2024 @ 9:00am

I'm not a huge horror fan; my tastes in the genre are very specific. If it's an Eldritch Lovecraftian tale, a lush gothic terror, or a pastoral folk horror? Count me in. Mainstream A-list stars and a hot TV actor/indie director making his first genre film using a flashy gimmick with lots of mainstream media buzz? Not interested.

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Interview: Comic and actor Brandon T. Jackson launches the "Still Detroit" comedy tour

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  November 17, 2023 @ 8:12pm

Many know Brandon T. Jackson from his film career starring in Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson, and the upcoming I'm Beginning to See the Light. But before that, he was a young stand-up comic.

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Review: The Marvels

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  November 15, 2023 @ 8:46pm

I wasn't sure what to think going into The Marvels. While I was a strong supporter of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, the eventual eponymous film that we got and the uneven use of her in subsequent appearances had me uncomfortable.

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Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  July 31, 2023 @ 3:38pm

On a Sunday in 1990, I stood in an empty mall (stores where I lived weren't open on Sunday back then) waiting in line for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film with my little brother. At 16, I was a fan of Laird and Eastman's black-and-white indie comic.

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Review: Stan Lee

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 27, 2023 @ 4:58pm

A hagiography is defined as two things: the writing of the lives of saints, and a biography that idealizes its subjects. The new Disney+ biography Stan Lee does both of those things and fits the descriptor perfectly.

Stan Lee is a controversial character.

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Review: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 6, 2023 @ 6:00pm

Let me start by saying that I have a troubled relationship with the Transformers film franchise. I am a Gen-X Gen 1 Transformers lover who dreamt of owning my own Metroplex play set.

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