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Dune (1984)

Dune (1984)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 1, 2001Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
David Lynch disowned his film version of the classic Frank Herbert SF novel. However, Lynch may be incapable of making a bad film and this, while acting freely with the book, has a visual grandeur that makes it highly watchable
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Lifeforce (1985)

Lifeforce (1985)
Rating: ★★★½
May 25, 2003Soul-Sucking Alien Vampires
Tobe Hooper's space vampires film wildly divides audiences and was a big flop for Cannon Films. You have to applaud its ambitious conceptual grasp even if it bites off far more wild ideas than it is ever capable of coherently presenting
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Rating: ★★
Sep 11, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The first of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films is an odd affair that seems like a routine episode of the series that accidentally gained a big-screen budget. This crosses over with Classic Trek where William Shatner mugs his way through a grand old airing of Captain Kirk
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 18, 2002Time Travel/Cyborg Gestalt
The second of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films where series regular Jonathan Frakes takes the director's chair and delivers an exciting adventure, showing an excellent hand with the special effects. Far more satisfying than the previous film
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Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Rating: ★
Sep 9, 2007Flaky Conspiracy Theorist Comedy/Thriller
This should have been a witty film - Mel Gibson as a conspiracy nut who discovers one of his theories is true and is hunted by government agents - but the result is a confused mess that turns into an overblown action vehicle
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 16, 1999Intergalactic Adventures
Third of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films has Jonathan Frakes back in the director's seat where he again plays to his strengths with great visual effects scenes but the story feels like a filler episode
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Mysterious Island (2005)

Mysterious Island (2005)
Rating: ★
Oct 9, 2008Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals
Hallmark tv mini-series adaptation of Jules Verne's desert island drama featuring no less than Patrick Stewart as Captain Nemo. This sinks badly amid incredibly shoddy giant animal digital effects
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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Rating: ★★
Jun 21, 2006Comic-Book Superheroes
Brett Ratner inherits the X-Men franchise from Bryan Singer for the third film in the series and promptly killed it off (after this point everything became prequels featuring Young X-Men). Ratner's handling of the superheroic action lacks Singer's exhilaration or any affinity for the characters
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Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
Rating: ★★
Jan 29, 2011Animation/Shakespeare with Talking Garden Gnomes
Surely the most outlandish film premise ever slung together for an animated film – a version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet conducted between talking garden gnomes in rival backyards
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The Wolverine (2013)

The Wolverine (2013)
Rating: ★★
Aug 3, 2013X-Men Spinoff Film
While this received a good deal of fan buzz, I must admit to being disappointed. It strips much of the superheroics and mutant cameos of the other X-Men films until it feels more like a Westerner in Japan thriller like Black Rain or even a routine film noir plot that happens to be cast with Wolverine
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rating: ★★★
May 25, 2014Comic-Book Superheroes
It is nice to see Bryan Singer regain his form after several years lull. The plot is nothing world-shattering but it is nice to see a character-driven X-Men, while Singer delivers the superheroics with a cheer-out loud elan that most of the sequels missed by a wide margin
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2014)

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2014)
Rating: ★★
Sep 28, 2015Animation/The Wizard of Oz Sequel
Modern would-be animated sequel to The Wizard of Oz that proved a charmless flop and seems to miss the magic and whimsy of the original by a mile. Entirely formulaic in the plotting, while the familiar characters have been run over with a gratingly flip modern sense of humour
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Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017)

Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017)
Rating: ★★
Nov 2, 2017Dragon Fantasy
The fourth film in the Dragonheart franchise. Is there truly anybody out there who was begging for this? Cheaply in Romania where it seems to be straining to drag the original film's premise out for another film
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The Emoji Movie (2017)

The Emoji Movie (2017)
Rating: ★★
Dec 4, 2017Animation/The Lives of Talking Emojis
An animated film that bizarrely speculates that the emojis in your text messages are actually living entities that have lives inside the phone. A not-too-well-thought out concept that leaves you with strange questions about its world
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Logan (2017)

Logan (2017)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 25, 2017X-Men Film
Both Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart take the opportunity to bid farewell to the X-Men franchise. One of the strongest films in the series, having been stripped of much in the way of epic superheroics and allowed to play out as a character drama that allows both actors to shine
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The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 29, 2021Modern-Day Arthurian Legends
Joe Cornish gained much buzz with Attack the Block. His follow-up film concerns a modern-day kid who inherits Excalibur where Cornish has fun translating elements of the Arthurian legends to the present-day
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Charlie’s Angels (2019)

Charlie’s Angels (2019)
Rating: ★★
Feb 28, 2020TV Series Remake/Action Film
The second big screen revival of the hit 1970s tv series. Essentially a Girl Power version of one of the Mission: Impossible films, which turns what was originally a girl-fronted detective show into a spy caper featuring SF gadgetry
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Rating: ★★
Jul 1, 2022Marvel Comics Magician Superhero
Doctor Strange was one of the better MCU films. Here Sam Raimi takes over in the director's chair. This readily delves into multiverse themes but requires a major crash course in a plethora of Marvel tv series to follow
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