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Alien Hunter (2003) Movie Review

There’s a reason why independent filmmakers who make a living selling moderately budgeted genre movies to videos and cable outlets insist on using generic titles for their movies. It helps to attract the attention of a video store customer who may not know the movie existed; hence the word “alien”...

July 19th, 2003 | Read More

Cover Story (2002) Movie Review

You know you’re about to watch a pretty bad movie when you notice that a character — who is living in a fancy and expensive penthouse suite — is typing on a computer with a 25 MHz processor, an ancient computer system that I didn’t even know still existed, much less still in use...

July 19th, 2003 | Read More

Ong-bak (2003) Movie Review

The Thai movie “Ong-bak” is the type of film sane movie stuntmen avoid. Why? Because “Ong-bak” is a vicious and violent (although not very bloody) martial arts film that is less concern with the men doing the stunts than it is with showcasing the power, brutality, grace, and effectiveness...

July 17th, 2003 | Read More

8 Mile (2002) Movie Review

The question everyone had coming into “8 Mile”, the new movie by director Curtis Hanson (”L.A. Confidential”) was: Can Eminem act? Well, the answer is maybe. Yes, Eminem, white rapper extraordinaire, can indeed act; but that’s taking into consideration Eminem is essentially...

July 17th, 2003 | Read More

Looking for Mr. Perfect (2003) Movie Review

If you’ve seen enough Hong Kong movies you may start to notice that a lot of the same people keep showing up in the same movies. It’s because the present Hong Kong film industry has a system in place that mirrors the Studio System of Hollywood’s “Golden Age”. Many actors...

July 16th, 2003 | Read More

Moving August (2002) Movie Review

The biggest obstacle with “Moving August” isn’t its obviously low budget, or even its limited locale and resources, but rather this: the movie expects us to believe that average looking August (Eddie McClintock) would voluntarily choose diminutive brunette Alexandra Adi over leggy blonde...

July 16th, 2003 | Read More

Bruce Almighty (2003) Movie Review

There’s a recent trend with a lot of so-called comedies that comes out of Hollywood that states that the trailer is usually funnier than the actual movie. This is because the trailer gets to cram all of the movie’s jokes into a 2-minute span, whereas the actual movie has to space out its...

July 15th, 2003 | Read More

Ghost Rig (aka The Devil’s Tattoo, 2001) Movie Review

The British horror film “Ghost Rig”, essentially a Last Stand in a Haunted House movie set on an oil rig, immediately peaks my attention. Not because it’s an outstanding horror flick, but because of something much simpler. Originally released in 2001 as “The Devil’s Tattoo”,...

July 14th, 2003 | Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) Movie Review

One of the more irritating conventions of Teen Slasher films is that our teen lead is determined to “spread the word” about the killer, even though no one will believe her, not having seen or faced the killer as she had. Of course our teen will not be deterred by something as minor as lack...

July 14th, 2003 | Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy’s Dead – The Final Nightmare (1991) Movie Review

From the very first musical chorus in the soundtrack you know “NOES 6: The Final Nightmare” is not like the others. For one, it’s the franchise’s first entry in the ’90s and the soundtrack is all alt-rock. Then again, the complete lack of subtlety in Death Foreshadowing...

July 14th, 2003 | Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) Movie Review

1994’s “NOES 7″ (aka “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”) came 3 years after the final, miserable sequel, and I’m hardpressed to call it horror at all. The movie is more suspense/thriller doused in heavy post-modernism. Before making the Teen Slasher genre hip again...

July 14th, 2003 | Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) Movie Review

Besides Freddy Krueger, the Teen Slasher franchise “A Nightmare On Elm Street” is known for one other thing: the uselessness of adults. Teen Slasher films have always found adults to be relatively clueless, but “NOES” takes the cluelessness to a whole new level. As was the case...

July 13th, 2003 | Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987) Movie Review

The first thing you notice about “NOES 3: The Dream Warriors” is the seamless transition from waking scenes to dream scenes. Director Chuck Russell (”Eraser”) handles the camerawork fluidly, which is one of many reasons “NOES 3″ is so much better than Jack Sholder’s...

July 13th, 2003 | Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Movie Review

Granted, the phrase, “Man, that just doesn’t make sense” seems to go hand in hand with a horror franchise about a supernatural killer that haunts and then slaughters teens in their dreams. Then again, while the previous 3 “A Nightmare on Elm Street” installments didn’t...

July 13th, 2003 | Read More

Haunted Office (2002) Movie Review

“Haunted Office”, a 2002 offering from Hong Kong, is a horror anthology consisting of 3 episodes set in the same haunted office building. Unlike other anthologies, there isn’t a middleman (e.g. the Crypt Keeper) to “tell” the stories, but instead the writers have interweaved...

July 12th, 2003 | Read More

Down to Hell (1996) Movie Review

Much like the feature length movie that would follow it, the Super 8 short “Down to Hell” needs to be seen to be believed. It’s not that writer/director/camera operator/caterer/janitor Ryuhei Kitamura has created something unique and unbelievably interesting, it’s just that, well,...

July 11th, 2003 | Read More

Dead Like Me: Pilot (2003) TV Review

People say that when you’re about to die you can feel Death’s icy fingers on the back of your neck. According to the new Showtime comedy/drama “Dead Like Me”, it’s not actually Death himself touching you, it’s his army of low-level “grim reapers”. In “Dead...

July 10th, 2003 | Read More

Nemesis Game (2003) Movie Review

Writer/director Jesse Warn’s “Nemesis Game” is a mild diversion. It’s not bad enough to be useless, but it’s also not quite good enough to surpass average. Wait, does that make sense? Well yes, if you’ve seen “Nemesis Game”, which stars Carly Pope as Sara,...

July 9th, 2003 | Read More

The Hunted (2003) Movie Review

Director William Friedkin’s “The Hunted” is one of those movies that would benefit greatly from a longer running length, instead of having been chopped to hell and back until all that’s left resembles one big chase movie. Then again, even as a butchered chase movie, “The...

July 8th, 2003 | Read More

Dark Walker (2003) Movie Review

A movie like “Dark Walker” usually prompts me to make mention of its lack of originality. But I won’t do that this time, mostly because I’m convinced director Danny Draven and his writers know they’re doing a formulaic Slasher film. Knowing this, all the conventions of the...

July 8th, 2003 | Read More