Season 4 Episode 5

Desmond is a right ol’ Billy Pilgrim! Just as he and Sayid finally leave the island and head toward the mysterious freighter in a helicopter, they run into an electrical storm and Desmond becomes “unstuck in time”. His body stays put, but his mind travels back and forth between 2004 and 1996. [...]

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (26 Feb 2008)

In the beginning, My Blueberry Nights sees New York café-owner Jeremy befriend the recently heart-broken Elizabeth. She comes in after hours and comforts herself with blueberry pie while he delivers unbelievably trite philosophies on love and life. My Blubbery Nights, more like! That might seem like a [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (23 Feb 2008)

Be Kind Rewind sees Jack Black turning in a Jack Black™ performance as Jerry, a junkyard owner who one day decides to sabotage the neighbouring electricity substation for fear it’s melting his brain. But as is typical of Jack Black – I mean “Jerry” – misplaced enthusiasm [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (14 Feb 2008)

The Bucket List is about two old fellas who are both given a year to live and so draw up a list of things to do before they “kick the bucket”. It’s nowhere near an original idea, but it is one that everyone can relate to [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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If you input the words ‘Jason Statham’ and ‘London crime thriller’ into your brainbox you’ll undoubtedly conjure a well-worn landscape of scalliwags and chancers who hang around railway arches and snooker halls saying things like, “Do me a lemon, tell Tony Binbags ta get a thrupenny-crockett for me ol’ porky bread boat!” But even though [...]

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (7 Feb 2008)

Fingernails. Near the start of the movie the eponymous Juno visits an abortion clinic. Outside she meets Su-Chin, an anti-abortion protester and school friend, who tells her two things: “All babies want to get borned” and “It has fingernails”. Juno receives this second fact as a fascinating [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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A landmark movie for movies that destroy landmarks

Films have been destroying New York City long before those planes hit. Independence Day’s aliens used the Empire State Building as their bullseye and incinerated the city with their big blue beam. A.I. turned it into an ice cube, and Armageddon spattered it with meteorites, burning through skyscrapers [...]

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by Truphtooph
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