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'Trek' goes not so boldly into rehash zone

Saturday, 25 May 2013, 12:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It's reverential, it's faithful, it's steeped in "Trek" mythology.   It's also...

'Peeples' offers genial, forgettable peeps

Friday, 24 May 2013, 12:51 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The people of "Peeples" make a better impression than most collections of oddballs in the weary mold of comedies centered on meeting the prospective in-laws.   They still overstay...

'Aftershock' fun but by-the-numbers horror

Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:47 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Splat pack ringleader Eli Roth takes his gory roadshow south in "Aftershock," a lively but formulaic Chile-set chiller where a group of tourists finds themselves bloodied, bludgeoned and...

Clever 'Stories We Tell' explores memory

Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 12:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

"Stories We Tell" is a documentary about Sarah Polley's family: her father and mother, sister and brother and the sister and brother she has from her mother's first marriage....

No passing grade for 'English Teacher'

Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 14:31 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Craig Zisk moves from TV to big screen with the story of a teacher played by Julianne Moore who sleeps with a former student.   Zisk has directed or produced episodes of standout TV comedies...

All sparkle, no soul in ' Great Gatsby'

Monday, 20 May 2013, 16:39 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it's "The Great Gatsby." After all, who was the character of Jay...

'Kon-Tiki' is handsome yet underwhelming

Sunday, 19 May 2013, 16:38 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The Norwegian directing team of Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, whose biopic of World War II resistance fighter Max Manus was a huge hit on home turf, have turned to another native hero for...

'Trek' goes not so boldly into rehash zone

Saturday, 18 May 2013, 16:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It's reverential, it's faithful, it's steeped in "Trek" mythology.   It's also...

Gerwig charms as 'Frances Ha'

Friday, 17 May 2013, 16:34 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

On paper it sounds unbearably precious and solipsistic — a cliche, even. Middle-class, college-educated white girl in her mid-20s wanders around New York City with no real home, job or purpose....

Bay's new flick is all pain, no gain

Thursday, 16 May 2013, 16:32 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our...

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