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Cabin Fever (2003) Movie Review

As was the case with Rob Schmidt’s “Wrong Turn”, you must have an easy familiarity with Teen Slasher movies in order to fully appreciate what Eli Roth’s “Cabin Fever” does right, because the movie does a lot of things right. Even those things it does wrong, it seems...

December 24th, 2003 | Read More

Infernal Affairs 3 (2004) Movie Review

2002’s “Infernal Affairs” was, in many ways, a seminal work in Hong Kong cinema. Not only did the film come out during a period when the industry was mired in bubbly nonsensical comedies starring an army of interchangeable pop “musicians”, but also it continued a growing...

December 22nd, 2003 | Read More

Ghost Rock (2003) Movie Review

“Ghost Rock’s” biggest failing is that it never allows the audience to believe, for even a single second, that it’s an actual western. The music, the martial arts, the poor sound foley, and even the odd-sounding dialogue, are all things you’ll find at one of those Old West...

December 21st, 2003 | Read More

Three Seasons (1999) Movie Review

It may shock most Americans to realize that, despite their insistence on holding onto the memories of the Vietnam War, that the Vietnamese people has since left that part of their past behind. Or at least, they don’t show the obsession with it that Americans, and the American media in particular,...

December 20th, 2003 | Read More

Star Runner (2003) Movie Review

The biggest problem I can foresee with Daniel Lee’s “Star Runner” is keeping the men in the audience from walking out before the film kicks in gear at about the 40-minute mark. Of course I wouldn’t blame the men one bit, since Lee, who shares writing credits, has dived headfirst...

December 18th, 2003 | Read More

Unbreakable (2000) Movie Review

M. Night’s Unbreakable is a disaster. It is not an unmitigated disaster in the vein of, say, Kevin Costner’s The Postman. Rather, the movie is a disaster in the sense that it could have been something great, something extraordinary, but instead it’s only…okay. That is, if you...

December 16th, 2003 | Read More

The Medallion (2003) Movie Review

Running at a scant 85 minutes, Jackie Chan’s latest effort “The Medallion” probably won’t please a lot of people. Generally speaking, it’s a slightly average movie, but considering the string of average films Chan has turned out in recent years, I suppose the lackluster...

December 14th, 2003 | Read More

Star Trek 8: First Contact (1996) Movie Review

“Star Trek” has never been like any of the other science fiction franchises out there. It’s always had a distinctive look, feel, and vibe to its aesthetics and storylines that I find attractive. Also, I have always considered “Star Trek” technology to be more feasible than...

December 13th, 2003 | Read More

Deadline (2002) Movie Review

I guess it was only a matter of time before the rest of Europe gave in and offered up their own version of a zombie movie. The Italians nearly killed off the genre in the ’70s by saturating the market, even though they did manage to create a master of the genre in Lucio Fulci. The Japanese have...

December 13th, 2003 | Read More

Coronado (2003) Movie Review

The only remarkable thing about “Coronado”, a film starring Americans but made by Germans, is that it manages some impressive special effects for what must have been a modest budget. While calling “Coronado” a “movie” is a bit of a stretch (it’s really one big...

December 11th, 2003 | Read More

Battlestar Galactica (2003) Mini-Series TV Review

Part One: I’ve seen some episodes of the old “Battlestar Galactica” TV show, which appeared about 25 years ago and went off the air after only a yearlong run, but I was never really impressed with it. I’ve also heard all the brouhaha about the upcoming Sci-Fi Channel mini-series,...

December 8th, 2003 | Read More

The Nest (2002) Movie Review

2002’s “The Nest” probably surprised a lot of people, myself included, who didn’t think the general French movie industry was capable of producing anything other than films about how great it is to have sex all the time or how crappy and miserable the world is and we should all...

December 7th, 2003 | Read More

In Hell (2003) Movie Review

My expectations coming into Jean-Claude Van Damme’s latest straight-to-video opus, “In Hell” (aka “The Savage”), was not very high. They were, in fact, so low that anything other than crap would have satisfied me. Imagine my surprise — I thoroughly enjoyed “In...

December 6th, 2003 | Read More

Alive (2002) Movie Review

It’s no surprise at all that Ryuhei Kitamura chose “Alive” as his first film post-”Versus”. Whereas that low-budget zombie/yakuza film was a meshing of hyper kinetic chaos and stylized action, “Alive” is a slightly bigger budget attempt at “Cube”-like...

December 5th, 2003 | Read More

Addiction (2003) Movie Review

In “Addiction”, Frank Franconeri plays Bobby, a mild-mannered fellow with an idyllic life in the suburbs, a loving wife who isn’t shy about giving oral sex, and a nice white-collar job in a nice shiny office building. But Bobby’s life is forever altered after a chance encounter...

December 2nd, 2003 | Read More

Unborn but Forgotten (2002) Movie Review

Oh “Ringu”, what hath thou wrought? Aside from the manic sounds of greedy movie producers all over Asia looking to cash in, that is. I suppose it wouldn’t be entirely fair to blame “Ringu” for the recent rash of assembly line Asian Horror Films that have swamped the continent...

November 29th, 2003 | Read More

Under Surveillance (2003) Movie Review

Dave Campfield’s independent film “Under Surveillance” is a murder-mystery, but its biggest problem is that the murder, as well as the mystery, is not entirely interesting. The film stars Eric Conley as Justin, a young man who flees his drug-addled mother to move back in with his estranged...

November 29th, 2003 | Read More

House of the Dead (2003) Movie Review

Genre movies are notorious for lying through their teeth. The favorite lie that everyone knows, but no one really seems bothered by, is obvious 20-something actors playing teens. “House of the Dead”, the latest film to cash in on the glossy horror craze, goes a step further. This time we...

November 25th, 2003 | Read More

Cat Soup (2003) Movie Review

Tatsuo Sato’s “Cat Soup” is an odd brew. And because it’s such a short experiment in bizarre visuals, giving this 30-minute movie a grade becomes a problem. It’s much too short to be properly judged, feeling more like a 30-minute episode of a long serial rather than the...

November 22nd, 2003 | Read More

The Matrix: Revolutions (2003) Movie Review

Who knew the Wachowski brothers had a Jesus Christ fixation? As it turns out, the entire “Matrix” series is nothing more than a remake of Jesus’ life. Who would have thunk it? “The Matrix: Revolutions” opens with human rebels Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss),...

November 19th, 2003 | Read More