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Elysium (2003) Movie Review

If you approach it correctly, the South Korean animation “Elysium” really isn’t that bad. I mean, it is quite unremarkable, that goes without saying. The whole movie is essentially a 70-minute episode of “The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers” (or whatever title the show...

November 16th, 2003 | Read More

My Wife is a Gangster 2 (2003) Movie Review

It was inevitable that a sequel to the wildly popular “My Wife is a Gangster” would show up sooner or later. Two years after the original, the sequel has arrived, returning star Eun-Kyung Shin into the lead role of gangster boss Eun-jin, who leads the fearsome scissor gang, called such because...

November 12th, 2003 | Read More

Jeepers Creepers 2 (2004) Movie Review

To fully appreciate “Jeepers Creepers 2″ I believe one must first endure a lot of really, really bad Teen Slashers. Otherwise the film may seem a bit…underwhelming. “JC 2″ is the sequel to 2001’s enjoyable “Jeepers Creepers”, about a supernatural killer...

November 11th, 2003 | Read More

Vlad (2003) Movie Review

I’m certain that, once upon a time, it must have seem like a novel idea to make a movie about the “real” Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, aka the original source behind all the vampire mythos. Unfortunately for the filmmakers who embarked upon this supposedly “unique” twist...

November 10th, 2003 | Read More

February (2003) Movie Review

I’ve been meaning to watch more Thai films, mostly because the industry has obviously improved in recent years. The quality of films has increased and so has the level of competence in regards to storylines that don’t make you groan with embarrassment for the filmmakers. We can see the improvements...

November 9th, 2003 | Read More

Flesh for the Beast (2003) Movie Review

What can I say about “Flesh for the Beast” except, well, it has a pretty nice title. And the movie poster is definitely a classy act. Unfortunately the film is neither classy nor nice, and is in fact Splatter in the guise of an actual horror movie. The final product is neither very horrific...

November 6th, 2003 | Read More

Mind Games (2003) Movie Review

Note to Hollywood, filmmakers, and the vast sea of untalented actors out there: What you think as “Texan” is not actually Texan, but is in fact the warped idea of “Texan” that you created in the first place. I bring this up only because of Richard Norton, an actor who started...

November 3rd, 2003 | Read More

Shiver (2003) Movie Review

Although 2003’s “Shiver” is more Serial Killer/Murder Mystery than Horror movie, that doesn’t stop the distributors from trying to lure audiences in with false advertisement. Even the movie’s poster, showcasing severed heads inside body bags, gives off vibes that we’re...

November 2nd, 2003 | Read More

Falling Down (1993) Movie Review

It is my contention that Joel Schumacher’s 1993 movie “Falling Down” is this (pinching two fingers together) close to being a very good film. As it stands, it’s just a good movie that overplays its hand and as a result, loses its audience. The movie’s biggest fault is the...

November 2nd, 2003 | Read More

24: Season 3, Pilot (2003) TV Review

Jack Bauer is having the longest day of his life — again. Tis time around the brother of an incarcerated Mexican drug lord has threatened to unleash a deadly virus on the populace of Los Angeles unless the United States releases his big brother. Making things more complicated is the fact that Jack...

October 28th, 2003 | Read More

24: Season 3: Premiere (2003) TV Review

Jack Bauer is having the longest day of his life — again. Tis time around the brother of an incarcerated Mexican drug lord has threatened to unleash a deadly virus on the populace of Los Angeles unless the United States releases his big brother. Making things more complicated is the fact that Jack...

October 28th, 2003 | Read More

Kopps (2003) Movie Review

If the premise of the Swedish comedy “Kopps” sounds familiar, it might be because it’s similar to the recent American comedy “Super Troopers”. The latter movie was about a group of tight-knit State Troopers facing lay-off because there’s just not enough crime to justify...

October 26th, 2003 | Read More

New Blood (2002) Movie Review

I would be curious to learn who was it that decided that all Hong Kong horror films must be shot with a somber green tint. I would also be curious to learn who made Shock Flashes — where the audience is treated to a flash of horrific images for about a split-second accompanied by shrieking loud...

October 25th, 2003 | Read More

Meat Market 2 (2001) Movie Review

Paul Pedrosa, who plays the improbably named Shahrokh, gets a bullet in the head ala Fulci’s “Zombie” in “Meat Market 2’s”opening scene, thus depriving the viewer of the only actor in the whole “Meat Market” series who can actually act. This leaves us with...

October 24th, 2003 | Read More

Moon Child (2003) Movie Review

Takahisa Zeze’s “Moon Child” is artistically very satisfying, but is unfortunately very generic. Gackt Camui, a big pop star in his native Japan, stars as Sho, a Japanese street urchin making a tough living on the mean streets of fictional Taiwanese city Mallepa in the year 2014. During...

October 21st, 2003 | Read More

I.K.U. (2000) Movie Review

“I.K.U.” is written and directed by Shu Lea Cheang — who, if my name recognition skills is correct, is Chinese — but declares itself to be “a Japanese Sci-Fi Porn Feature.” The film is shot entirely in digital video and uses extensive computer grid animation to give...

October 19th, 2003 | Read More

Mimic 3: Sentinel (2003) Movie Review

Calling “Mimic 3: Sentinel” the third installment in the “Mimic” franchise is a bit of a cheat. It’s really nothing more than a 70-minute detour that offers nothing to the series besides taking up space and precious production money better spent elsewhere. Apparently the...

October 14th, 2003 | Read More

Beyond Re-Animator (2003) Movie Review

According to Brian Yuzna and company, getting one’s ear bitten off doesn’t mean one becomes instantly uncomfortable with the thought of, say, getting oral sex a minute later. Or at least that’s what “Beyond Re-Animator” would have us think. Part insanity, part gross-out,...

October 13th, 2003 | Read More

Infernal Affairs 2 (2003) Movie Review

“Infernal Affairs 2″ comes to us a quick one year after the critical and commercial success of the original. The sequel — or prequel, actually — returns almost all of the same faces behind and in front of the cameras, including young bucks Edison Chen (“The Twins Effect”)...

October 12th, 2003 | Read More

Mindhunters (2004) Movie Review

“Mindhunters” has one of those irresistible premise that begs to be made into a movie: FBI trainees, trained in the art of profiling serial killers, go on one last “simulation” on a small island in the middle of nowhere before graduation, when they discover there is a serial killer...

October 11th, 2003 | Read More