By Day and By Night (2010)

Mexican science fiction. I don’t know much about if (if indeed there is much to know); the only experience I remember having with it is the 2008 movie Sleep Dealer, which is a nice little sci-fi gem with decent production values, although not enormously exciting. Then along comes By Day and By...

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Faust (2011)

The story of Faust is an old German legend first written down in Latin in 1587, translated to English in 1592, forming the basis for Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in 1604. The most famous version of it, however, is the two-part play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1808, and often held...

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Lockout (2012)

Lockout, starring the always watchable Guy Pearce, is the sci-fi B-movie guilty pleasure of the year. Produced by Luc Besson and directed and written by a pair of first timers, Irish lads James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, who inject a whole lot of love of 80′s action films into this compact...

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The Watermen (2011)

It has to be said that the presence of Jason Mewes in any movie that doesn’t have Kevin Smith in the director’s chair is not something to look forward to. I like Mewes, I really do, but I’ve heard nothing but horrible words about his work outside of the View Askewniverse (with the exception...

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Transit (2012)

Starting with a quick armed robbery, Transit really sets off at a pace it tries to keep up until the very end. It doesn’t quite manage it but it has a good go. After the armed robbery comes the hard part – avoiding the cops and getting away with the loot – so the four [...]

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The Hunger Games (2012)

The next big pop franchise The Hunger Games is a movie adapted from a super-popular trilogy of books for teenage girls, and it threatens to displace the waning Twilight. The Hunger Games is entertaining, pretty exciting, and engaging — it, like Twilight, is a star-crossed romance. Jennifer Lawrence,...