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Never to Lose (2004) Movie Review
There have been a lot of films done in the “Lethal Weapon” style of moviemaking, many of them by imitators right here in the United States , but Americans rarely get the chance to...
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HAAN Han Gil Su (2005) Movie Review
While the attack on Pearl Harbor has been depicted in films from the American and Japanese perspective, few people know of North Korea ‘s involvement in the events that took place on Dec 7,...
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Man-Thing (2005) Movie Review
Of all the characters in the Marvel Universe, you have to wonder why Lion’s Gate chose Man-Thing, a lower tiered comic book character, to make into a movie. Unless you’re a die-hard comic book...
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Garuda (2004) Movie Review
The DVD cover for the Thai monster movie “Garuda” shows a gigantic, bird-like creature perched over a modern city, ready to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting populace. It looks very much like your average...
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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005) Movie Review
The are some fantastic zombie films that have elevated the genre to stratospheric heights, and there are others so spectacular in their badness that they plunge it to such depths that you’d need a...
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Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) Movie Review
If familiarity breeds contempt, then kaiju fans ought to feel distain towards Mothra and MechaGodzilla. If appearances in the Godzilla films were frequent flyer miles, the monster pair would have accumulated enough for a...
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Movie Review
Giddy over the surprise success of “Halloween 4″, the producers wasted no time getting a follow up into production. Their haste is evident, since the fifth installment in the “Halloween” franchise is an amalgam...
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Enter: Zombie King (2003) Movie Review
There are certain films in which logic is some sort of abstract notion, something to be considered but never truly taken seriously. “Enter…Zombie King” is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of these...
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The Big Brawl (aka Battle Creek Brawl, 1980) Movie Review
“Rumble in the Bronx” wasn’t Jackie Chan’s first attempt to break into the western market. Fifteen years earlier, Hollywood’s search for the next Bruce Lee brought Chan to American screens via “Battle Creek Brawl”,...
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Sayonara Jupiter (aka Bye-Bye Jupiter, 1983) Movie Review
When it was announced in the early 1980s that American audiences were returning to Jupiter via “2010″, the Peter Hyams sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking “2001″, Toho decided to give Japanese audiences a trip...
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Destroy All Monsters (1968) Movie Review
Godzilla’s popularity was on the wane in the late 60s, both in Japan and abroad. As a result, Toho management decreed that “Destroy All Monsters” would be Godzilla’s swan song, and ordered a film...
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Giant Monster Gamera (1965) Movie Revie
Toho’s Godzilla series was so successful that Daiei Studios decided they wanted a monster of their own. Probably realizing they couldn’t compete at the adult level with the Big G, Toho aimed somewhat lower,...
Read More »Children of the Living Dead (2004) Movie Review
After standing on the sideline and witnessing the success George Romero had with his two sequels to “Night of the Living Dead”, John Russo, who co-wrote and produced “Night”, decided to make a sequel...
Read More »Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2002) Movie Review
Although completed in 2002, “Samhain” has been gathering dust in the film vault awaiting distribution. That’s a bit of a shame, since this inventive mix of porn stars and outrageous gore is a fairly...
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955) Movie Review
Toho wasn’t going to let a little thing like the title character dying get in their way of making money. Five months after the original “Godzilla” first hit screens, a sequel was quickly made...
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The Grudge (2004) Movie Review
The latest in an ever growing line of remakes of Japanese horror films is a rather underachieving effort that doesn’t measure up to previous attempts. This ghost story is long on eerie atmosphere and...
Read More »Friday Night Lights (2004) Movie Review
“Friday Night Lights” isn’t the kind of high school football movie you’d expect, and in fact it bears little resemblance to “Varsity Blues” and its ilk. It’s a sharply drawn portrait of a town...
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Godzilla’s Revenge (1969) Movie Review
The Godzilla series was meant to end with “Destroy All Monsters”, a whiz-bang Armageddon of a finale. But there was a problem: “Destroy All Monsters” made a lot of money at the Japanese box...
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Generation X (1996) Movie Review
Long before the X-Men made a splash on the big screen, Marvel Comics tried things on a smaller scale with a television film based on a spin-off of the X titles. They made a...
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