Attack The Block

The story of a council block inhabited by an odd mixture of London poor, that happens to become the center of an alien invasion.    From the producers of Shane of The Dead, Attack The Block is a pretty straight forward take on a monster movie. Unlike CGI fests such as Super 8 and Cloverfield, Attack The Block gives us a story on a human level-and leaves the over the top special effects in the box. Our heroes don’t start off very heroic, they are busy mugging a woman when something falls from the sky and flattens a car.  They find…

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Code 46 Can’t Tell The Players Without a Genome Card

We open with several pages of legalese explaining that it is against the law to have children with people who have either 100%, 50%, or 25% of the same genetic code as yourself.  At the same time we see Tim Robbins flying over a vast desert, which surrounds the city of Shanghai.  Clearly something has happened, something bad.  We are never told what this something is.  We are given hints that sunlight is bad-so bad that everyone now works at night and sleeps during the day.  We are also told that clones and test tube babies are common.  And most…

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