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Mike Sage

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Biography:

Freelance writer and film critic in Toronto, writing for Peterborough This Week, PopMatters.com and BlogTO.com, also a budding filmmaker, with first short: "Decoding Aleil" having debuted on Canada's Space: the Imagination Station

Publications:
Favorites:

Death Becomes Her, Contact, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Ring, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Mulan, The Descent, The Departed, Children of Men, 300

Location:

Downtown Toronto.

Reviews

Movies 온라인카지노추천 Shows
Watchmen (2009) 65% 2/5 “Watchmen isn't a superhero movie, it's a pretentious turkey that thinks it's better than the genre.” – Peterborough This Week Mar 12, 2009 Full Review Friday the 13th (2009) 26% 3.5/5 “The acting is always good, but when it's not, you can always expect that character to flash her boobs, so who's complaining?” – Peterborough This Week Feb 18, 2009 Full Review Doubt (2008) 79% 3/5 “More tailored for the Oscars than a Clint Eastwood war epic, Doubt features some of the best performances we've seen all year but it falls short in other departments.” – Peterborough This Week Dec 23, 2008 Full Review Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 91% 5/5 “I don't think Boyle could film paint drying and make it dull.” – Peterborough This Week Dec 23, 2008 Full Review Seven Pounds (2008) 26% 1.5/5 “Smith and Dawson both look like death, so watching their romance-on-life-support is painfully dreary and tragically unsexy” – Peterborough This Week Dec 23, 2008 Full Review Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) 64% 2/5 “Barring direct-to-DVD Disney sequels, the first Madagascar was one of the worst animated flicks of all time. The bad news is Escape 2 Africa reunites the same cast and directors that made the first DreamWorks flick such a turkey.” – Peterborough This Week Dec 2, 2008 Full Review Quantum of Solace (2008) 63% 2.5/5 “Quantum makes us understand the importance of a good director, which is sadly absent here.” – Peterborough This Week Dec 2, 2008 Full Review Australia (2008) 54% 2.5/5 “Had the team abandoned the tediously tidy final third of the film and all the awful World War II shenanigans we obviously don't care about, Australia would be a wild romp.” – Peterborough This Week Dec 2, 2008 Full Review Pineapple Express (2008) 68% 3.5/5 “Another winner from the Apatow factory, this is a stoner comedy that soars.” – Peterborough This Week Sep 9, 2008 Full Review Mamma Mia! (2008) 55% 1.5/5 “Unfortunately, Streep and her ancient co-stars create pure torture whenever on screen together. This is the Catwoman of movie musicals” – Peterborough This Week Sep 9, 2008 Full Review The House Bunny (2008) 44% 3/5 “Fans of comedies like Legally Blonde and Mean Girls should get a kick out of Anna Faris' amusing starring vehicle, even if this one isn't quite as sly or slickly produced.” – Peterborough This Week Sep 9, 2008 Full Review The Dark Knight (2008) 94% 5/5 “a riveting piece of work that will have us all mourning Ledger's loss but smacking our lips for a third entry” – Peterborough This Week Sep 9, 2008 Full Review Burn After Reading (2008) 78% 3.5/5 “Burn After Reading is a welcome escape from September's usual crop of inane thrillers starring Nicolas Cage or Julianne Moore.” – Peterborough This Week Sep 9, 2008 Full Review Cloverfield (2008) 79% 3.5/5 “Mixing the immediacy of documentary observation and the slam-bang pace of the modern disaster epic, Cloverfield is economic and engaging.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review Atonement (2007) 83% 4/5 “Director Joe Wright is quickly establishing himself as a powerhouse adapter of period romance tomes.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review Rambo (2008) 38% 3/5 “Luckily, Rambo's years away from war haven't dulled his ability to rip out a man's throat with his bare hands.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review There Will Be Blood (2007) 91% 2/5 “And the winner of the overrated Oscar front-runner award goes to...” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review Never Back Down (2008) 20% 2.5/5 “The acting is hammy, Djimon Hounsou shows up to give the flick a corny air of Karate Kid and there's nothing particularly original about the whole premise but somehow it works. It must be those abs. Or the kicks to them.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) 43% 3/5 “With plenty of betrayal, attempted incest and beheadings crammed into this period episode of The Young and the Restless, The Other Boleyn Sister has appeal in an otherwise stiff genre.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review Fool's Gold (2008) 11% 1.5/5 “Never do we believe that these two might actually be capable of hooking up off-screen, and this romantic flatness kills your appetite to keep watching.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review Vantage Point (2008) 34% 3/5 “If you thought 24's perspective on terrorism was, well, limited, get ready to groan. The meat and potatoes of Vantage Point -- the suicide bomb explosions, the bloody fisticuffs and blaring car chases -- are indeed awesome, and that's what truly matters f” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review 10,000 B.C. (2008) 10% 1/5 “The actors speak in fluent anachronistic English. The dialogue is prehistoric but not in the way Emmerich intended.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review The Ruins (2008) 51% 3.5/5 “Gore hounds will definitely be pleased as The Ruins boasts some of the most sickening blood and guts this side of snuff films.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) 79% 3.5/5 “after the overcooked live action Grinch and nauseating Cat In The Hat, Hollywood has finally served up a tasty adaptation of Dr. Seuss.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review 21 (2008) 36% 2.5/5 “Too bad most of the performers can't seem to pull off the insane IQs they clearly do not have.” – Peterborough This Week Apr 15, 2008 Full Review
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