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I Capture the Castle (2003) Movie Review
It’s probably just as well that the English film “I Capture the Castle” never states what time period its story is taking place in. The film, about an eccentric family that themselves itself living...
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Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999) Movie Review
I actually saw both previous “Warlock” films in the theaters, back when moderately budgeted B-Horror films were still allowed to grace the multiplexes. Now, you couldn’t get into the theaters unless your films had...
Read More »Visible Secret (2001) Movie Review
Don’t let “Visible Secret” fool you — it’s less of a horror movie than it is a clever comedy and touching human drama. Qi Shu, last seen seeing ghosts in 2002′s “Haunted Office”, was...
Read More »Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) Movie Review
Leave it to Disney, a company that’s never passed up the chance to squeeze every single dollar out of a property, to make a movie out of an amusement park ride. Normally it’s the...
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Threat Matrix: Pilot (2003) TV Review
More “CSI” than “The Agency”, the new ABC show “Threat Matrix” is based on an actual document of the same name that details all threats against America in any given day. The show revolves...
Read More »Detonator (2003) Movie Review
It’s true, kids, you too can make a movie for pennies! All you have to do is buy stock footages of places exploding and then shove them into your movie. Some clever editing, some...
Read More »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...
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