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CAGED IN PARADISE

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The Cagiest moments from the movie Trapped In Paradise .

STEEL DAWN - REVIEW

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Patrick Swayze. In a Mad Max -style post-apocalyptic future. With a sword. In the 80's. Why would you NOT watch that movie?! It almost sounds too good to be true, and it is. The film starts off just like you'd hoped, with a very silly, very cheap-looking sequence involving Swayze being attacked by sand mummies. To give you an idea, the scene ends with Swayze making the SAND bleed. Yup, it is that awesome. Then he meets up with an old friend, some martial arts master and/or sheriff-type dude and just when you expect things to go all Kung-Fu , a bunch of bad leather-wearin' rejects from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome show up to drag the plot down to something resembling a cliched western minus the hats. Which I do like, genre-bending is welcome in most films as far as I'm concerned, but I really wanted Steel Dawn to go all out. Instead of ripping off every Mad Max film and every Sergio Leone flick ever made, why not differentiate from that Mel Gibson-starring

MY TOP 10 BEST BAT-VILLAINS

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With Bane and Catwoman taking on The Bat this month, I thought I'd take a quick look back at my own favourite Batman villains. Bear in mind I haven't read every single Batman comic-book or seen every single episode of every single cartoon series so there might be some bad guys out there I am not familiar with or not familiar with enough to include in this list. Might amend the list later, we'll see... In the meantime, here are my own picks for best bat-villains: 10 HARLEY QUINN If you'd asked me about Harley Quinn as a kid I would have probably spat in your face. I really wasn't a big fan of the character back in the days of the Animated Series , mostly because she just seemed tacked-on as a character and seemed to only be there to interrupt The Joker and serve as comic relief. That may all be true to a certain extent but looking back at some of the episodes she was in I realized they did try to make her as three dimensional as they could and you do

THE DREAM TEAM - VIDEO REVIEW

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TRILOQUIST (DUMMY) - REVIEW

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Also known as "Dummy", Triloquist wants to be a cross between Child's Play and Richard Attenborough's Magic but feels more like a funnier version of Freeway or a no-budget Tarantino/Rodriguez effort with Tim Burton supervising. Weird, twisted but decidedly cool randomness. From the offset it's clear that this won't be the kind of film where a lot of time is spent trying to explain the most ludicrous plot points. Why can that dummy talk? No idea. It just can. Fair enough I say! The prospect of spending half an hour sitting there as some kind of unlikely ancient Aztec curse or whatever is unraveled was a bit grueling. The dummy itself is however upstaged by his lunatic "sister". Payden LoPachin steals the show as a sexy, heartless serial killing machine even the murdering dummy is scared of! She is as unpredictable as it gets and decidedly insane. Part road movie, part black comedy, part serial killer horror film, Triloquist is an anarchic crea

THE SNAKE PIT - REVIEW

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Olivia de Havilland loses it and we sit and watch as she attempts to regain some shred of her sanity and hopefully leave her confinement to be reunited with her husband. The reasons behind her nervous breakdown are revealed little by little and although the feel of the film is, at times, very Hitchcockian, the way the subject-matter is handled makes Spellbound look like a 5 year-old child's perception of psychoanalysis rather than a legitimate take on it. De Havilland's performance in this is one of the most complex, unpredictable and powerful I've seen in a long time and, again, makes Gregory Peck's performance in Spellbound look even poorer than it already is in comparison. She earned a well deserved Oscar nomination and so did the film. The Snake Pit is very dark and doesn't sugar-coat much, with some scenes actually quite hard to watch and pretty daring for 1948. As larger than life as some of the characters may be, this is far more subtle and honest than,