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Owls’ Castle (1999) Movie Review
Having more in common with Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” than the Japanese ninja movie “Red Shadow”, Masahiro Shinoda’s “Owls’ Castle” has the look and feel of a movie “based on true events”. There is a...
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Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) Movie Review
The only reason that could possibly explain the making of “Heavy Metal 2000″ is the cult following for the 1981 original. Unlike its predecessor, “Heavy Metal 2000: F.A.K.K. 2″ uses traditional cell animation in...
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Below (2002) Movie Review
I am sometimes baffled by the choices film studios make, such as shelving the terrific “Salton Sea” but throwing everything including the kitchen sink to push “Final Destination 2″. And yet, sometimes I have...
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Joshua (2002) Movie Review
I always like to preface reviews of movies like “Joshua”, which is loaded with elements that can rile a person depending on his/her perspective, by stating some facts about myself. I am not Christian,...
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Stalingrad (1993) Movie Review
The predicament for German filmmakers who want to tackle World War II is this: how do you make a movie, with heroes and such, about a historical period when your country was out slaughtering...
Read More »Ronin (1998) Movie Review
1998′s “Ronin”, a terrific actioner about ex-spies earning a living as mercenaries in the post-Cold War era, is one of the most overlooked film of that year. Besides being the last great film under...
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Mimic (1997) Movie Review
“Mimic” is essentially a Don’t Mess with Mother Nature movie, with Mira Sorvino’s Doctor Susan Tyler playing the (not-so) Mad Scientist. In an effort to cure a plague that’s killing children by the hundreds,...
Read More »Vanilla Sky (2001) Movie Review
Having more in common with “The Matrix” than writer/director Cameron Crowe’s own “Jerry Maguire”, “Vanilla Sky” is another in a recent trend of Head Trip movies, where things aren’t what they seem, and the...
Read More »Saviour of the Soul (1991) Movie Review
“Savior of the Soul”, made in 1991, is the epitome of Hong Kong action cinema cranked out during that particular era. The modus operandi of films in this category involves juvenile high jinks in...
Read More »The Touch (2002) Movie Review
If Michelle Yeoh’s starring vehicle “The Touch” has parts of it that looks familiar, it’s probably not because it shares more than a few surface resemblances to the “Indiana Jones” movies as many reviewers...
Read More »Shallow Hal (2001) Movie Review
There is one big fallacy in “Shallow Hal”, the new film by the Farrelly brothers, that I believe escaped the sibling filmmakers as they were writing the script. It’s this: the film purports to...
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Bravo Two Zero (1999) Movie Review
There have been surprisingly few movies made about the 1991 Gulf War. My guess is because there’s not an engaging villain, largely due to Saddam Hussein’s mythical “5th Largest Army in the World” crumbling...
Read More »Insaniac (2002) Movie Review
“I was shot on Super VHS, and as a result the film doesn’t look too great. Running at just 80 minutes, “Insaniac” tells the story of Autumn (Robin Garrels, who also wrote the screenplay...
Read More »Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003) Movie Review
In this day and age, when even established Slasher franchises like “Halloween” and “Hellraiser” has to scrape the bottom of video store shelves and basic cable TV just to survive, it’s a mystery why...
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Bloody Mallory (2002) Movie Review
Parts “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and parts “John Carpenter’s Vampires”, the French film “Bloody Mallory” is all goofball. It would be a big mistake to take anything that transpires within the film seriously, mostly...
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Daredevil (2003) Movie Review
Continuing the seemingly unstoppable streak of Comic Book Superhero movies, 2003′s first entry is “Daredevil”, a mid-level character from Marvel Comics, which also put out “X-Men”, “Spiderman”, the “Blade” franchise, and the upcoming “Hulk”...
Read More »Running Out of Time (1999) Movie Review
Don’t let the cover of the Hong Kong movie “Running Out of Time” fool you. The film, about a dying man (Andy Lau) who challenges a brilliant cop (Ching Wan Lau) to catch him...
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The Bunker (2001) Movie Review
I’ve always been more than a little perplexed by movies that require an exclusively American cast to use a “foreign” accent even if the entire movie is in English. I’ve always thought, “Well, if...
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Junk (1999) Movie Review
Do you know who George Romero is? If the answer is Yes, then can you list all 3 titles of Romero’s Zombies Attack trilogy? If you answered Yes to that question as well, then...
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