Matt O'Leary

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 25, 2002Juvenile Spy Adventures
The second of Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids films is slightly the lesser of its predecessor – it makes the mistake of stripping out the gadgets – but is still fun and has the wacky surrealism Rodriguez gave the first film
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Rating: ★★
Jan 13, 2004Adventures Inside a Videogame
The third in the series is no longer even a Spy Kids film but a Virtual Reality videogame film. Robert Rodriguez has some fun creating the virtual worlds but the parody that the other films engaged in is missing
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Mother’s Day (2010)

Mother’s Day (2010)
Rating: ★
Jun 22, 2012Home Invasion/Torture Porn
This has almost nothing in common with the 1980 film it is supposedly based on. Instead we get a home invasion film where Darren Lynn Bousman of Saw sequel fame shows that constant scenes of brutality and torture are all that he has in his arsenal
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Time Lapse (2014)

Time Lapse (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 5, 2015Camera That Photographs the Future
A perfect example of a film carried by the ingenuity of its concept – a camera that takes photos 24 hours into the future – told with a superb tightness of economy – two sets and mostly three actors (largely unknowns) – and some wonderfully contorted twists
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Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Rating: ★★
Apr 12, 2019Man Builds a Fantasy Doll Village/True Story
Robert Zemeckis of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump fame makes a film of the true-life story of Mark Hogancamp who recovered from a brutal assault by building a fantasy village of dolls. The results are bizarre where Zemeckis seems more interested in making a Sucker Punch-like fantasy where the dolls come to life
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