Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Sci-Fi Cityscapes #10: Mega-City One (Dredd [2012])
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Oh I've been waiting for this one! I sent you an email about it a few weeks ago, expressing annoyance that many reviewers were comparing it to contemporary superhero movies with which it shares nothing but source material, while failing to draw any useful comparisons, for instance to early Carpenter action masterpieces like Assault On Precinct 13 or Escape From New York. Excited to read your take!
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Looking forward to the review John.You are right,it is amazing.Wish the blu ray sales were enough to get a sequel but as it is it looks like it is going to be a stand alone classic,which is fine.
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