Category: Directed by Christian Duguay
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Sometimes competency is a bad thing. Screamers is a fairly well-made–Duguay’s composition isn’t spectacular, mostly because the sets were all CG embellished so there was only so much he was actually shooting–but there are some excellent effects sequences. There’s some nice stop motion and then a great shuttlecraft liftoff. Duguay knows how to spend his…
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Superbly acted, superbly directed, middlingly written thriller about average guy Navy officer Aidan Quinn drafted into an international program to turn him into a super-spy. Turns out Quinn looks exactly like infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Quinn is fantastic; Ben Kingsley and Donald Sutherland are both good as his handlers (see, they’re training him to…
The Stop Button 