Reviews In Depth

I'm going to tell you why Star Trek is a much better movie than Avatar, box office takings not-withstanding. This is something I think most of you reading will already know. In the reviews, the Star Trek script was widely praised, while Avatar's script has been widely panned. But as it is with standard reviews - they never run deep enough in explanation for our liking.

Pitch Black (2000), directed by David Twohy, is almost the perfect subject of review for InDepth – a movie widely dismissed as derivative sci-fi, schlock horror. Looking at the “top reviews” on Rotten Tomatoes reveals an establishment totally incapable of engaging with this film.  Robert Ebert is off put by the fighting crew and the [...]