Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Hunter Prey is a 2009 independent science fiction film written and directed by Sandy Collora [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Hunter Prey
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Defendor
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars (Highest Rating) In one month, Thor will hit the theaters kicking off this Summer’s Blockbuster [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Devil
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars M. Night Shyamalan just received a drubbing this week as his The Last Airbender movie [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Monsters
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Monsters is an indie Science Fiction film made by writer/director Gareth Edwards that received very [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Cloverfield
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Cloverfield is the J.J. Abrams produced, Matt Reeves directed film that takes the monster-movie format [...]
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Ten Great Anti-Blockbusters of Science Fiction and Fantasy
By John J. Joex We define an Anti-Blockbuster as a film that bucked the Hollywood bloated-budget, cookie cutter blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. They may have had a respectable budget or modest or even non-existent funding and they may have done well in the box office or flew under [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 ½ out of 5 Stars The dystopian film Mad Max came out back in 1979 with a then unknown [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Carriers
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I stumbled upon this fairly recent movie by accident and found it to be a [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 ½ out of 5 Stars Coming out in 1984 at a time when big budget, sfx-laden films were becoming [...]
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The Anti-Blockbusters: Cube
Our ongoing column giving the spotlight to movies that bucked the Hollywood Blockbuster trend and still managed to deliver a superior viewing experience. Note that these reviews may contain spoilers. By John J. Joex Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Cube is a quirky little sci fi/horror film that writer/director Vincenzo Natali (Splice) delivered to [...]
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