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Spy Kids 2 (2002) Movie Review
More creative energy unbound than actual storytelling, “Spy Kids 2″ is exactly the kind of movie Robert Rodriguez is known for. Written, directed, shot, and even edited by the former wunderkind behind the fabled...
Read More »Extreme Ops (2002) Movie Review
Christian Duguay’s “Extreme Ops”, despite the unfortunate title, is not as bad as it could have been. Which isn’t to say it’s especially good, but I had expected worst from a movie advertised as...
Read More »Love in Garden Street (2002) Movie Review
All moviegoers know that Movie Coincidences (that is, the type of convenient coincidence that can only happen in movies) is a fact of moviegoing life. On rare occasions, your average moviegoer will be generous...
Read More »A Better Way to Die (2000) Movie Review
Scott Wiper’s “A Better Way to Die” is almost a gem, especially for a movie of its modest budget. It’s quite a good movie, with some good action sequences, and writer/director/star Scott Wiper has...
Read More »Super Troopers (2001) Movie Review
“Super Troopers” is another in a recent group of Hollywood comedies that rely on lowbrow humor to carry the day. Fortunately, the cast of “Troopers” is up to the task, and the movie is...
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The Perfect Education (1998) Movie Review
I must confess that I’m reasonably certain I’ve approached the Japanese “Perfect Education” series with the wrong perspective. With “Perfect Education 2″, which I saw and reviewed before the original, I mistakenly took the...
Read More »Triggermen (2002) Movie Review
“Triggermen” is directed by Canuck John Bradshaw, written by Brit Tony Johnston, and stars Brits Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar, Yanks Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Rapaport, and Brits-as-Yanks Claire Forlani and Pete Postlethwaite. But...
Read More »2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) Movie Review
“2 Fast 2 Furious” was not made for critics. Its story is bland and uninteresting and its characters are poorly constructed, terribly written, and badly portrayed by the actors. The only thing that saves...
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Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001) Movie Review
The Zombies Attack genre is a burgeoning one in Japan. I’ve only seen a couple of real zombie movies, including “Junk” and “Wild Zero”. And while “Versus” also featured zombies, it was more chop...
Read More »Code 11-14 (2003) Movie Review
Towards the end of the Serial Killer movie “Code 11-14″, and after the serial killer’s identity has been revealed to the audience, the killer radios leading man David James Elliot (who has since figured...
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Keen Eddie: Pilot (2003) TV Review
The one thing that can sink Fox’s new TV series “Keen Eddie” before it even gets a chance to dog paddle is the same thing that sunk another Fox TV show, “The American Embassy”....
Read More »National Security (2003) Movie Review
“National Security’s” biggest conceit is that its star, Martin Lawrence, is charming. Alas, he is not. Not in the least bit. Not remotely. Not if he spent $20 million a year (his salary for...
Read More »Poolhall Junkies (2003) Movie Review
If Mars Callahan’s “Poolhall Junkies” gives you that been-there, done-that feeling, that’s probably because it’s not a very original movie despite its focus on billiards as the sport of choice. Essentially a Sports Movie,...
Read More »Arachnid (2001) Movie Review
As Giant Creatures Attack movies go, Jack Sholder’s “Arachnid” is pretty decent. But as a regular movie regardless of genre, it’s lacking. Starring Chris Potter as Valentine, an ex-military who leads a medical expedition...
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The Perfect Education 2: 40 Days of Love (2001) Movie Review
Apparently if you want a high school girl to be your love slave, all you have to do is kidnap her at the point of a knife, tie her up in your apartment for...
Read More »Granny (1999) Movie Review
I like to think that when it comes to Teen Slasher movies I’m a little more lenient than your average movie critic. Given the right ingredients of sex, violence, and gore, I’m usually quite...
Read More »No Retreat, No Surrender (1985) Movie Review
The ’80s was a magical period in American filmmaking. How else can you explain the daily visitations of awful tripe like “No Retreat, No Surrender” to your local Cineplex? Nowadays, a film as bad...
Read More »Before Sunrise (1995) Movie Review
Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” is an aimless 1995 movie about two strangers, American Ethan Hawke and French woman Julie Delpy (“Killing Zoe”), who meets by accident on a train and decides to spend one...
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Double Vision (2003) Movie Review
Kuo-fu Chen’s “Double Vision” was written, executed, and intended for international audiences, so maybe this is why the film lacks a more “Asian” feel. Oh sure, the screenplay by Chen and Chao-Bin Su makes...
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