D’you know what Million Dollar Baby needed? A scruffy kid with big eyes, Evangeline Lilly, and MASSIVE ROBOTS. Hugh ‘all the genres, all of the time, so long as I get to be buff’ Jackman stars in an unreasonably enjoyable sci-fi sports extravaganza which will leave you wondering why Hollywood has never before made a robot fight a 2000lb bull.
Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, eye black as a black eye (which is to say purple)…
He brings out a new film every twelve to fourteen minutes, he has permanent standing orders to both Matt Damon and George Clooney, he’s about to direct a Liberace biopic before retiring to focus on his painting and he’s REALLY bald. Any guesses? It is of course Steven Soderbergh, and if you’re planning to see Contagion you’d better get involved with our Cheat Sheet…
Say what you like about Ray, there’s not a ritualised cultist murder in there…
To celebrate the release of Real Steel, we’ve ventured into the cyber laboratory to build a mighty Mash-Up robot from spare parts discarded from films throughout the ages. Guess them all and we’ll reward you with a prosthetic arm – but get one wrong and you’ll be rogered by Gort from here to eternity…
Louise Wimmer is a film about a divorced French cleaning woman in her late forties who lives in her car. Couldn’t be less tempted, could you? OH, YE OF LITTLE FAITH! Touching without being sentimental and instructive while resisting preachiness, this is a likely-to-be-missed gem which you’d do well to catch.
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