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The film is making zillions all over the world so what does it matter that it’s just a mediocre attempt to recapture the energy, the youthfulness and the innocence of the previous installments?

Love of cinema, that’s what made me react the way I did.

How can it possibly be that the most powerful people in the film world could agree that this was the script that everyone was waiting for?

Shallow, opportunistic, over long, over crowded and implausible in a way the other films weren’t regardless of their own implausibilities because one was connected tho the soul of the enterprise.

During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru.

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Director
Steven Spielberg

Writers
David Koepp
George Lucas

Release Date
22 May 2008 (UK)

Genre
Action | Adventure 

Tagline
In May, the adventure continues.

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This is not really a sequel to 1987’s The Lost Boys, it’s more of a spin off movie.

Unfortunately it’s been getting a lot of bad reviews, and admittedly it could have been better, but that’s not to say it hasn’t any good points.

It tried to be a lost boys movie, It tried to have the same feel and overall the movie successfully stays true with the cinematography but it ended up copying many of the events from the first one.

It takes a few events from the original mixes them up and writes some lines to glue them together.

The “Magic” isn’t there.

The story itself plodded along slowly for the first 40 or 50 minutes picking up as soon as Feldman Entered, in fact I cheered at the T.V when he appeared. ooohh yeahhh!!

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
P.J. Pesce

Writers
Janice Fischer
James Jeremias

Release Date
8 September 2008 (UK)

Genre
Comedy | Horror | Thriller

Tagline
Never grow old. Never die. Never know fear again.

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 It is what you would expect from Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

They’ve been doing these kind of roles for the past 30 years of their acting life.

The film itself was not a blast.

Totally predictable plot, stereotype good cop bad cop, drug dealers, bad neighborhood were huge minus to this movie.

Lack of character development made the film implausible and some parts inconvicible no matter how great the acting was.

Finally, the director’s abuse of dramatic music without much happening throughout the film slowly eats away your patience.

Two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Jon Avnet

Writer
Russell Gewirtz

Release Date
25 September 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Crime | Drama | Mystery 

Tagline
Most people respect the badge. Everybody respects the gun.

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I would think that this film has been overshadowed probably due to The Bank Job being released only a couple of months previous.

There’s a bunch of familiar faces from films such as Lock Stock, Snatch, The Business etc and even a bloke from Eastenders. Your usual cockney lot.

That being said the acting is spot on and the dialogue is funny.

Gotta love low budget British films, there’s a hell of a lot more of them recently and its a welcome change to the usual big budget yankee tosh.

It is just a basic stick-up job with lots of shouting and screams at the beginning, some ludicrous device about how to get money out of a City of London bank (Sure banks have with some 70 million have no motion detectors…) in the middle, and an OK third part where it all goes wrong.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Paris Leonti

Writer
Paris Leont

Release Date
29 August 2008 (UK)

Genre
Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline
Using the World Cup as their cover a group of England football supporters pull off the perfect crime, stealing millions of pounds from a London Exchange bank.

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The cartoon is something along the lines of the Marvel Action hour cartoons from the 90’s, just with a better script and much better animation.

In fact, having seen the cartoon, (just don’t tell anyone! ) I would be more than willing to watch it as a cartoon series.

Keep in mind, it is intended for a younger audience, but I think most Marvel fans will enjoy it.

ooooh yeeeaahhh! magic

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Jay Oliva

Writer
Christopher Yost (writer)

Release Date
2 September 2008 (USA) 

Genre
Animation | Action

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Finally an honest look into the steroid world.

These days in order to compete with your peers/teammates, you almost have to take some sort of performance enhancing drugs.

If you don’t, you’ll fall behind. Standard case of “keeping up with the Jones’s”.

I feel it is very obvious to the world and sports fans that this is going on, but NO ONE is honest about it!

When one guy gets busted, he’s looked down upon and singled out.

Not fair to single them out and criticize when everyone else on the team is doing it.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Chris Bell

Writers
Chris Bell
Alexander Buono

Genre
Documentary

Tagline
The side effects of being American.

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Very boring and unfunny. Seems to rip off so many other movies.

For example the three main characters look like an exact carbon copy of the cast from Superbad, a shy skinny person, a fat snob, and one complete dork.

Jokes aren’t very funny and are old.

In trailers the movie brags that this will be the colt classic of the decade comparing itself to Animal House, Revenge of The Nerds, and American Pie, but this movie seems to be a rental movie at best.

The title college doesn’t fit the film, sure the movie takes place at a college but thats it.

This movie portrays college students as drunk,stupid, horny kids which might worry some parents.

After Kevin (Drake Bell), a high school senior, gets dumped by his girlfriend Gina (Alona Tal) for being too boring, he doesn’t want to go to the freshman orientation weekend at Fieldmont University, where they had planned to go together.

His best friends Carter (Andrew Caldwell) and Morris (Kevin Covais) convince him that the weekend away will help get his mind off her. Aye!

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Deb Hagan

Writers
Dan Callahan
Adam Ellison

Release Date
29 August 2008 (USA) 

Genre
Comedy

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As Joe begins to wonder what has happened to his life, we are taken back to his adolescent days of first love on the quiet English seaside, to discover what this Brit has in fact been trying to hide from with a life of debauchery and excess in LA.

Even a fan of this film should be able see why some might find it slow and slightly dull, as it does rely on the viewer sharing in a sense of glory in the mystical power of great records, the tragic romance of nostalgia and regret, and the theme of washed-up stardom.

Hollywood star Joe is now a teenage boy in a tentative relationship with a school-girl called Ruth.

Further, his mother’s friend, Evelyn, is attempting to seduce him.

Engulfed by guilt at the unintended, tragic consequences of his subterfuge, he leaves home.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Baillie Walsh

Writer
Baillie Walsh

Release Date
18 April 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Drama

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The movie is not totally horrible, as action films go.

The main problem is the many plot holes in the narrative that the creators probably didn’t count on, or thought their viewers wouldn’t figure out how the whole mess was going to turn out.

John Herzfeld directed the screen play by Bob Krakower and Allan Lawrence.

The credibility gap is huge when the people involved asks us to accept things that don’t make too much sense.

Tim Kearney, a San Quentin prisoner with an “impulse control” problem, expects to spend the rest of his life in jail, until the FBI makes him an offer he can’t refuse.

He can go free if he agrees to assume the identity of the late drug lord, Bobby Z, so the Feds can deliver him to a Mexican kingpin in exchange for a kidnapped agent. 

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
John Herzfeld

Writers
Bob Krakower
Allen Lawrence

Release Date
17 November 2007 (Japan)

Genre
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline
You can’t out-run yourself.

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The acting was really good, and it was great to see Famke Janssen in another horror movie, considering the last one she did (House on Haunted Hill) was nearly 10 years ago and Deep Rising .

She was believable, likable, but with a bitchy edge and made sure the vicious ghost wasn’t going to hurt her anymore.

Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick was also good as Famke’s young lover, and Bobby Cannavale nailed the role as the typical, tough NYC cop.

Michael Pare plays the ghost of the husband, and even though he’s CGI throughout most of the movie, he does a good job as the vicious, angry wife beating ghost.

A young woman, Marnie Watson, is granted early release from her prison sentence for manslaughter (killing her husband - a violent NYC cop - in self defense) on condition she wear an electronic ankle bracelet and remain within her home, effectively under house arrest, for the remainder of her sentence.

Her late husband’s partner keeps tabs on her from a patrol car parked across the street, hoping she’ll violate probation and he can send her back to prison.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Eric Red

Writer
Eric Red

Release Date
2008 (USA) 

Genre
Horror | Thriller

Tagline
Till Death Do Us Part Wasn’t Enough

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