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A Bucket of Blood (1995)

A Bucket of Blood (1995)
Rating: ★★
Sep 10, 2025Murderous Artist
Roger Corman’s original A Bucket of Blood is a cult black comedy starring Dick Miller a nerdy wannabe who is acclaimed after passing dead bodies off as works of art. Here it was remade with Anthony Michael Hall inheriting the role of Walter Paisley
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Small Soldiers (1998)

Small Soldiers (1998)
Rating: ★★
Nov 5, 1999War Between Toys
Joe Dante had great success in the 1980s but his star started to pale into the 90s. Here he has resorted to a rehash of his biggest hit Gremlins, seemingly conceptually slung together with Toy Storyconcerning an army of malevolent toy soldiers come to life
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jun 15, 2004Memory Erasure/Reality Bender
Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman collaborate on a mind-bending film about erased memories. Both are on superlative form and the film comes with a series of characteristic eccentricities and whiplash twists that are positively ingenious
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Battle for Terra (2007)

Battle for Terra (2007)
Rating: ★★
Jan 8, 2014Animation/War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
Animated film that has a remarkable number of similarities to Avatar – even though it was released before. A simplistic variant of the same human colonists vs alien natives plot conducted with corner-cut CGI animation
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Rating: ½
Jan 20, 2012Singing Chipmunks
It may say how doomed the Western world is that people have paid to watch three films so far all centred around these annoyingly cutsie helium-voiced chipmunks. This is marginally less annoying that the preceding two
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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 16, 2011Animation/Talking Animal Martial Arts
Sequel to DreamWorks hit animated film, this does little more than repeat the basics of its predecessor. The detail and texture of the film is amplified to a work of art, although you cannot help but wonder if this is something the under 10s care about.
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Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Rating: ★★
May 30, 2016Animation/Talking Animal Martial Arts
The Kung Fu Panda series feels like films for couch potatos – a handful of martial arts films cliches and a hero who proclaims the virtues of laziness, overeating and combats everything with his own self-inflated sense of awesomeness. What baffles about such low-engagement films is the quality of artistry lavished on them
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Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Rating: ★★★½
Nov 8, 2019Gonzo Workplace Satire
This directorial debut for rapper Boots Riley is a very funny satire on telemarketing that becomes increasingly more surreal as it goes on. Imagine something like Spike Lee around the point of Do the Right Thing mixed with the absurdist humour of Kurt Vonnegut
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