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The Rundown (2003) Movie Review
It’s official. The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, is the new Arnold Schwarzenegger. And if you don’t think the big S knows, you must have missed the blink-and-you’ll-miss cameo by the Governator at the beginning...
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Fureur (2003) Movie Review
“Fureur” is one strange movie. It’s mostly in French, shot around the Chinatown community in France, and it counts among its cast members a variety of Asians, including but not limited to Chinese, Thai,...
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Dragon Head (2003) Movie Review
George Iida’s “Dragon Head” opens with high school student Teru (Satoshi Tsumabuki) waking up inside a bullet train. Teru is the sole survivor of a terrible train accident, and all of his classmates are...
Read More »Near Death (2003) Movie Review
Sometimes there’s just no reason to make a movie. Consider Joe Castro’s “Near Death”, which despite the slick movie poster, is mostly a pointless endeavor. It’s nothing more than “filmmaking” based on the assumption...
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In America (2003) Movie Review
Irish writer/director Jim Sheridan’s “In America” is about a family haunted by a tragedy that seeks an unfamiliar environment with which to get lost in. As it so happens, Sheridan and his two daughters...
Read More »Comic Book: The Movie (2004) Movie Review
I used to be a big comic book collector, back when you didn’t need financial aid to pay for the latest issue of “The Amazing Spiderman”. Of course now you can’t just by “Amazing”...
Read More »Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Movie Review
“Bride of Re-Animator”, the sequel to Stuart Gordon’s 1985 “Re-Animator”, took 5 years to show up — and truth be told, it needn’t bother. The sequel takes place 8 months after the events of...
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Goodman Town (2002) Movie Review
“Goodman Town” rarely makes sense, and director Sakchai Sribonnam seems to know this. The film is basically a parody of the post-apocalyptic movies of the ’80s, where a Lone Laconic Warrior wanders the wasteland...
Read More »Monster Man (2004) Movie Review
The biggest obstacle to really enjoying “Monster Man” is the screenplay, which features two unsympathetic characters as leads. Granted, one shouldn’t expect too much realism in a movie called “Monster Man”, where the villain...
Read More »Legend of Evil Lake (2003) Movie Review
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “The Legend of the Evil Lake” (aka “The Thousand Years Old Lake”) is a derivative product buoyed by a large budget and tons and tons of CGI,...
Read More »Memories of Murder (2003) Movie Review
“Memories of Murder” broke box office records in its native South Korea. The film, based on an actual police case that is still unsolved to this day, has achieved international acclaim and might just...
Read More »Halloween (1979) Movie Review
I know it’s hard to believe, but I’ve never seen John Carpenter’s “Halloween”. Yes, I admit it. Despite my affinity for Teen Slasher films of all stripes and budgets, I’m sorry to say that...
Read More »Acacia (2003) Movie Review
The most entertaining thing about “Acacia” isn’t the movie itself, which is mostly dull, plodding, and not very scary even though it’s billed as a horror film. It’s also not the movie’s Big Reveal,...
Read More »Re-Animator (1985) Movie Review
As a fan of American genre films, I’ve heard Stuart Gordon’s “Re-Animator” being mentioned in the same breath as other cult films such as Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” movies. But for one reason or...
Read More »Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) Movie Review
The “Tremors” franchise is an acquired taste. The cult following started with the 1990 original starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward. The sequel brought back Ward in 1996, but by then Bacon’s star was...
Read More »Into the Mirror (2003) Movie Review
“Into the Mirror” isn’t very original, and despite all of its visual wizardry, the story is heavily influenced by the Slow Bore Horror conventions popularized by “The Ring”. Depending on how you feel about...
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High Tension (2003) Movie Review
The French Slasher movie “Haute Tension” has been re-titled “Switchblade Romance” for its North American release. Why? I don’t know. I suppose movie execs are talentless hacks whether they are in France or America....
Read More »Dagon (2001) Movie Review
It’s entirely my fault that my reading habits while growing up consisted mostly of Robert Ludlum (“The Bourne Identity”) and Stephen King (“Dreamcatcher”), not to mention every western ever written by Louis L’amour. To...
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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God (2003) Movie Review
The Polish movie “The Old Tale” reminds me not to take things for granted — although not in the way you might be thinking. Here’s why: the film’s script is oddly unconcern with imparting...
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