Elias Koteas

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Rating: ★★★
May 11, 2013Comic-Book Superheroes
The first live-action spinoff of the comic-book and animated series still holds up well two decades later. Little of the manic barrage of pop culture has dated, there are some excellent animatronics that allow the Turtles to engage in a series of high-energy fights and more importantly emerge as distinctive characters
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Rating: ★
Jul 6, 2000Comic-Book Superheroes in Feudal Japan
The third of the original live-action Turtles films is a lazily conceived affair that transplants the Turtles back in time to feudal Japan in a plot that rips off The Seven Samurai
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Apt Pupil (1998)

Apt Pupil (1998)
Rating: ★★
Jun 30, 1999Nazi War Criminal Gives Lessons in Evil
Early Bryan Singer film from a Stephen King novella about the friendship between a boy and an aging Nazi. While well acclaimed, the film never seems to get its relationship right or communicate the true nature of Nazism’s evils
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 25, 2019Horror Producer Val Lewton Documentary
Val Lewton produced a body of works beginning with Cat People that are the finest horror films of the 1940s. This is a documentary that looks at Lewton's life and films in detail, produced and narrated by no less than Martin Scorsese
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 30, 2008Man Ages in Reverse
David Fincher makes a surprisingly positive and upbeat Academy Awards crowd-aimed film in which Brad Pitt is a man who ages in reverse, born as an old man and progressively getting younger as he goes through life
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The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
Rating: ★★
Dec 13, 2010Haunted House/"True Story"
Another supposed true-life ghost story, an early case by Ed and Lorraine Warren. The film that exists as a progression of pop-up scares that through the need to keep producing effect produces no effect at all.
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The Fourth Kind (2009)

The Fourth Kind (2009)
Rating: ★★
Dec 16, 2009Alien Abductions/"True Story"
This makes a fictitious claim to be a dramatisation of alien abductions that took place in Alaska. This creates an account that is at times undeniably interesting before shooting itself in the foot by heading into Ancient Astronauts territory
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The Last Days on Mars (2013)

The Last Days on Mars (2013)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 13, 2014Expedition to Mars/Alien Zombie Infection
This starts out offering a fine astrophysically credible depiction of Mars only to quickly reach for the playbook of Alien cliches to essentially become Zombies on Mars. As long as one accepts the hackneyed premise for what it is, the film generates more than reasonable tension
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