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PTU (2003) Movie Review
I can understand how some people might be confused by the oeuvre of filmmaker Johnnie To, who seems to exist as two individuals: the Cool To and the Funny To. I don’t particularly care...
Read More »Maximum Risk (1996) Movie Review
To be honest I’m not sure what my reaction to “Maximum Risk” was when I first saw it in its initial release 7 years ago, but I do remember that I was excited to...
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Blue (2003) Movie Review
The South Korean movie “Blue” is basically “Top Gun” with scuba gear instead of Tomcats. Depending on how you feel about deep sea diving, this may or may not be a good thing. Like...
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Drive: Director’s Cut (1997) Movie Review
Steve Wang’s “Drive” is an exceptionally entertaining action film, but it’s a miserable everything else. The movie, about a Hong Kong supersoldier who escapes to America with an army of inept bad guys at...
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Nobody Knows Anybody (1999) Movie Review
The title of the Spanish film “Nobody Knows Anybody” is probably too appropriate for its own good. The movie, about a lonely man who gets drawn into a dangerous and elaborate game is reminiscent...
Read More »Scream (1996) Movie Review
Allow me to get pretentious for a moment by looking back at the first postmodern work in the Teen Slasher genre — the “Scream” trilogy. Conceived by screenwriter Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes...
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Scream 2 (1997) Movie Review
As a character in “Scream 2″ explains, the sequel is always bigger, bloodier, and has a bigger bodycount to satisfy the real fans. Such is the case with “Scream 2″, made one year after...
Read More »Scream 3 (2000) Movie Review
Randy’s back! Well, not exactly. Having been killed off in “Scream 2″, Jamie Kennedy (“The Specials”) makes a cameo return as Randy, the former video store clerk, horror movie expert, and the coolest Ghostface...
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Family Business: Episode 1-3 (2003) TV Review
Porn is a multi-billionaire dollar a year business. Some say porn is the only reason the Internet is so popular, and it’s been proven again and again that porn is the only sure-fire profitable...
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Dreamscape (1984) Movie Review
“Dreamscape” was made in 1984, and you have to take that date into consideration to fully understand its paranoia, which led to the movie’s main storyline: a shadowy government agency, led by the evil...
Read More »Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (1983) Movie Review
I really am not overstating things when I tell you that Tsui Hark’s 1983 special effects opus, “Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain”, is a terrible, terrible movie. But on the plus side, it’s...
Read More »Spider’s Web (2001) Movie Review
I feel bad for screenwriters. They spend all their time staring at a blank paper (or in most cases nowadays, a blank Final Draft template on the computer) and trying to figure out the...
Read More »Saulabi (2001) Movie Review
“Saulabi” has all the makings of a TV movie with some added R-rated footage showing gratuitous violence and bloodletting in order to justify a theatrical release. The South Korean film, about Korean expatriates who...
Read More »Ride With the Devil (1999) Movie Review
Ang Lee’s 1999 movie “Ride with the Devil” is a hard movie to take. Not hard because it’s difficult to understand the film’s themes of identity and loyalty, but because the movie is about...
Read More »Drumline (2002) Movie Review
I should probably mention that I know nothing about music. Oh sure, I listen to music, but as to playing music? Let’s just say that I once took a course in piano, but washed...
Read More »Tigerland (1999) Movie Review
Joel Schumacher’s “Tigerland”, a 1999 movie about enlistees and reluctant draftees trying to survive the brutality of basic training in preparation for shipping off to Vietnam in 1971, might have been a pretty darn...
Read More »Inner Senses (2002) Movie Review
The Hong Kong motto is, “If it sells tickets, copy it ad nauseam until it no longer sells tickets.” As a result of that motto, 2002 has been the Year of the Ghosts —...
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Dreamcatcher (2003) Movie Review
Besides being a giant mess and a terrible bore of a movie, “Dreamcatcher” has the same problem as “Signs” — it’s a science fiction movie about aliens made by people who aren’t interested in...
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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Movie Review
Even if you had absolutely no interest in animated movies of any type, Hayao Miyazaki has a way of convincing you to rethink that notion. Miyazaki’s “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, a 1989 feature about a...
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