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Alien vs Predator (2004) Movie Review
For the sake of brevity, I won’t regurgitate the plot of “Alien Vs Predator” too much. The story itself is simple enough: Predators trick humans to a pyramid in the Antarctica to be “impregnated”...
Read More »Moving Targets (2004) Movie Review
At one point in time, after the disgraceful “High Risk”, writer/ producer/ director/ seamstress Wong Jing was at the very top of my Hit List. But after the successful “Colour of the Truth”, a...
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Highwaymen (2003) Movie Review
“Highwaymen” is one of those movies you might have heard about, but can’t exactly remember where, or what it was you heard. Not because the premise didn’t sound promising, but simply because the studio...
Read More »One Nite in Mongkok (2004) Movie Review
After the celebrated triumph of “Lost in Time”, Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Yee returns with a story that is grittier and a whole lot messier than his previous award-winning film. The location this time...
Read More »Face (2004) Movie Review
Dark Hair Ghost Stories from Asia are a dime a dozen nowadays. If you threw a pebble at the continent, you’d probably hit 10 films in the genre on the first thud. Really, it’s...
Read More »Dead and Breakfast (2004) Movie Review
What can you say about Matthew Leutwyler’s “Dead and Breakfast” except, you will either adore the heck out of it, or you will loathe it. And to help you decide, I’ll even surrender these...
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Super Size Me (2004) Movie Review
Fast food is not good for you, so stop eating it. Of course saying it is easier than doing it. As documentarian Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me” shows, America has been programmed to eat...
Read More »Walking Tall (2004) Movie Review
The biggest problem with the 2004 Hollywood remake of “Walking Tall” (and believe you me, there are problems aplenty with this little ditty) is this: The Rock, as a persona, is simply too big...
Read More »Motives (2004) Movie Review
Shemar Moore is Emery Simms, a smooth talking businessman with all the right moves, charms, looks, and the type of body you only get if you’re a gym rat. He’s married to Vivica A....
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Showtime (2002) Movie Review
The Robert De Niro comedy “Showtime” is a good example of a film that really works when it sticks to its selling points, but becomes embarrassing when it strays. A case in point: When...
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Movie Review
Although I’ve watched plenty of Japanese animation in my time, I’ve never had the occasion to take up Shinichiro Watanabe’s “Cowboy Bebop”, one of the more popular imports to reach the States. “Cowboy Bebop:...
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Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning (2004) Movie Review
As a sequel to two cult favorites, “Ginger Snaps Back” (aka “Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning”) is a 2½-star film. As a standalone movie without any ties to the series, it manages 3 stars....
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Red Shadow (2001) Movie Review
Hiroyuki Nakano’s “Red Shadow” is a rather oddball picture. It’s not exactly a samurai film, not really a ninja film, and sure as heck doesn’t try to be an authentic martial arts picture. So...
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Zatoichi (2003) Movie Review
At last, the review of Kitano Takeshi’s “Zatoichi” remake is now online. I’ve had the DVD in my possession for the last, oh, three months or so, but for one reason or another —...
Read More »Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) Movie Review
Coming into Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: Volume 2″, the question at hand was: “Did splitting what was essentially a single story into two for the sake of cold hard cash detrimental to the overall...
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Ranarna (aka At Point Blank, 2004) Movie Review
It’s a mystery why the Swedes don’t make more action films like “Ranarna” or “Executive Protection”, when they seem to do it just as well as everyone else. Maybe it’s because the locals don’t...
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Ultraviolet: Mini-series (1998) TV Review
Episode 1 (of 6): “Habeas Corpus” (July 26, 2004) Although I’ve heard some very good things about the British vampire show “Ultraviolet”, I couldn’t help but be a little skeptical. After all, the British...
Read More »Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004) Movie Review
“Six: The Mark Unleashed”, besides featuring a title that seems to have little relevance to the actual film (or at least any that I could decipher), is advertised as a Christian movie. The film...
Read More »Maplewoods (2003) Movie Review
The low budget zombie film “Maplewoods” claims to run about 85 minutes, but that’s a big fat lie. It’s more like 60 minutes if you don’t count all the dramatic pauses the actors in...
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