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Expiration (2003) Movie Review
In my neverending quest to give back to the world, I offer this advice: When leaving a Note of Utmost Importance to your pregnant girlfriend, who is sleeping it off inside your parked car,...
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Princess Blade (2001) Movie Review
It’s probably wise not to expect too much from a movie based on a manga comic book, or even if it has that manga-inspired feel to it. The Japanese action movie “Versus” and the...
Read More »The Mission (1999) Movie Review
If 1999′s “The Mission” proves anything, it’s that filmmaker Johnnie To is better as a solo filmmaker than he ever was when working with frequent collaborator Ka-Fai Wong, whose presence on a Johnnie To...
Read More »Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003) Movie Review
It’s always been my contention that the reason Time Travel movies are such a niche genre (with the exception of the “Terminator” movies, which has defied the parameters of the genre and become something...
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Jake 2.0: Pilot (2003) TV Review
Think of it as “The Six Million Dollar Gen-X’er”. The premise is simple: Jake Foley (Christopher Gorham) works for the National Security Agency as a tech support guy, but he dreams of being a...
Read More »Beast Cops (1998) Movie Review
“Beast Cops” cleaned up the hardware in its native Hong Kong’s annual movie awards in 1998. The film was highly acclaimed by the critics and was, most importantly, a box office hit. The screenplay...
Read More »Try Seventeen (aka All I Want, 2003) Movie Review
“Try Seventeen” (aka “All I Want”) could most definitely have been better, but it’s restrained by a lot of things, one of which is the need to be too mainstream. It’s a crowd pleaser,...
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My Life as McDull (2001) Movie Review
If there’s one thing I can fault “My Life as McDull” for, it’s that the movie, running at a scant 70 minutes, gets perhaps a bit too somber toward the end. While there’s no...
Read More »Cypher (2002) Movie Review
The best part of Vincenzo Natali’s “Cypher” was trying to guess the plot twists of Brian King’s screenplay before they were revealed. I will admit that the script fooled me a number of times,...
Read More »Wrong Turn (2003) Movie Review
“Wrong Turn” benefits from a big budget, which allows it to be more competent than usual for films in its genre. Essentially a Teen Slasher, with 3 inbred hillbillies in lieu of a masked...
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The Hulk (2003) Movie Review
“The Hulk” is probably the best comic book adaptation of 2003, which is unofficially the Year of the Superheroes. What “The Hulk” has going for it is a sure hand by director Ang Lee...
Read More »Nikos the Impaler (2003) Movie Review
When a film opens with the titular character getting gutted by a sword, his insides spilling out, and then the character grabbing his own intestines and taking a big juicy bite, the viewer has...
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Helen of Troy (2003) Mini-Series TV Review
As if channeling the oracle Cassandra, screenwriter Ronnie Kern (who I suspect is a woman, but I could be wrong) must have known he/she was in for some backlash by people who spent their...
Read More »Tube (2004) Movie Review
Two things about “Tube”: In the beginning, during a shootout at the airport, just ignore the fact that you never see anyone reload, even though there are enough bullets flying back and forth to...
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Finding Nemo (2003) Movie Review
Let me confess that American-made animation is not the type of thing I go out of my way to see, since most movies always seem to be adaptations of other Disney movies, only with...
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Army of Darkness: Official “Bootleg” Version (1993) Movie Review
Sam Raimi’s “Army of Darkness” (aka “Evil Dead 3 “, aka “Bruce Campbell vs. Army of the Dead”), is a low-budget film with a big budget. What that means is, despite having a big...
Read More »Asian Charlie’s Angels (2001) Movie Review
Here’s the odd thing: most of Christy Chung’s co-stars record their dialogue using sync sound, but only Chung’s dialogue is entirely dubbed from beginning to end! It would be interesting to find out why...
Read More »Ripley’s Game (2002) Movie Review
A few years ago a movie called “The Talented Mr. Ripley” came out starring Matt Damon (“The Bourne Identity”). It was the first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel of the same name. Highsmith wrote...
Read More »Counterstrike (2003) Movie Review
Here’s the thing: I really don’t care that the filmmakers of “Counterstrike” decided to make the President of the United States a woman, but why in the world does the President dress like a...
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