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Manborg (2011) Movie Review

Manborg (2011) Movie Review

Todd Rigney April 14, 2013

Do you remember how low-budget movies from the 80s never really lived up to their VHS covers? Except for maybe “The Eliminators,” of course. I was often duped into renting a flick simply because...

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New On DVD: Things

New On DVD: Things

Brent McKnight July 11, 2011

“They ate Susan, they ate her to the skull.” “Things” makes it feel like you’ve been magically transported back to your youth. It’s a crisp Friday night in fall, and you’re sleeping over at...

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Fubar: Balls To The Wall (2010) Movie Review

Fubar: Balls To The Wall (2010) Movie Review

Brent McKnight March 14, 2011

If you haven’t seen “Fubar” I only have one question for you. What the hell, man,are you serious? I’m not kidding around when I say these words, drop whatever you’re doing (and lets be...

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The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard (2007) Movie Review

The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard (2007) Movie Review

Jodie Bass December 22, 2007

Sports movies in general have a formula they tend to follow in order to capture attention. First, they have to be about winners, otherwise most people don’t tend to give them any notice, at...

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Manufacturing Dissent (2007) Movie Review

Manufacturing Dissent (2007) Movie Review

Guest April 29, 2007

(Movie Review by Christiaan Harden) When Debbie Melnyk and Nick Caine, two self-proclaimed progressive liberal filmmakers, set out to make a biography celebrating Michael Moore, they began as admirers and fans. After discovering a...

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Deaden (aka Pain Killer, 2006) Movie Review

Deaden (aka Pain Killer, 2006) Movie Review

Nix December 12, 2006

Originally titled “Pain Killer” (before a certain TV show got greenlit by the Sci Fi Channel), “Deaden” stars John Fallon as a former undercover cop who goes apeshit when his former bike gang invades...

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Enter: Zombie King (2003) Movie Review

Enter: Zombie King (2003) Movie Review

Joseph Savitski December 15, 2004

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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Nothing (2003) Movie Review

Nothing (2003) Movie Review

Nix November 13, 2004

If there’s one thing about Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali that you can take to the bank, it’s that the guy really, really likes to make movies that challenge him as a director. No one...

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Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning (2004) Movie Review

Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning (2004) Movie Review

Nix August 3, 2004

As a sequel to two cult favorites, “Ginger Snaps Back” (aka “Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning”) is a 2½-star film. As a standalone movie without any ties to the series, it manages 3 stars....

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Elevated (1997) Movie Review

Elevated (1997) Movie Review

Nix July 9, 2004

Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali burst onto the movie scene with the release of “Cube”, but has since moved onto bigger (although not necessarily better) things ala the big-budgeted “Cypher”. “Elevated” is a 1997 short...

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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) Movie Review

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) Movie Review

Nix February 7, 2004

“Abandon hope all who enters.” This should be the tagline for the “Ginger Snaps” franchise because it fits the films to a “T”. There is almost no hope, no ray of light, not even...

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Meat Market 2 (2001) Movie Review

Meat Market 2 (2001) Movie Review

Nix October 24, 2003

Paul Pedrosa, who plays the improbably named Shahrokh, gets a bullet in the head ala Fulci’s “Zombie” in “Meat Market 2′s”opening scene, thus depriving the viewer of the only actor in the whole “Meat...

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Nemesis Game (2003) Movie Review

Nemesis Game (2003) Movie Review

Nix July 9, 2003

Writer/director Jesse Warn’s “Nemesis Game” is a mild diversion. It’s not bad enough to be useless, but it’s also not quite good enough to surpass average. Wait, does that make sense? Well yes, if...

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Meat Market (2000) Movie Review

Meat Market (2000) Movie Review

Nix May 20, 2003

I know it’s something of a cheat to call Brian Clement’s zombie opus “Meat Market” a foreign film, since while the film is made by Canadians in (most likely) Canada, it’s not really a...

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Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) Movie Review

Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) Movie Review

Nix May 9, 2003

Deepa Mehta’s “Bollywood/Hollywood” is so obviously a parody of Hollywood romantic comedies and Bollywood melodrama that once you realize this, everything else is irrelevant. Like the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match...

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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001) Movie Review

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001) Movie Review

Nix March 29, 2003

If you decide to watch “Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter”, you will bear witness to the following: (And depending on your level of taste or sense of humor, you will either weep at how bad...

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Men With Brooms (2003) Movie Review

Men With Brooms (2003) Movie Review

Nix March 10, 2003

I’m not entirely sure when I personally took notice of the Redemption Sports Movie, but I’d say it started with Disney’s “The Mighty Ducks”, although it’s reasonably certain the genre goes way back. The...

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My Little Eye (2002) Movie Review

My Little Eye (2002) Movie Review

Nix February 3, 2003

In what can only amount to cosmic irony, movies have begun to use the popularity of Reality TV as inspiration for their own plot; if Reality TV was meant to satirize real life, movies...

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Ginger Snaps (2000) Movie Review

Ginger Snaps (2000) Movie Review

Nix January 13, 2002

The opening shots of Ginger Snaps — the identical lifeless homes of a planned community, where lots are still available for $125,000 each — says it all. The Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, lives...

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Cube (1997) Movie Review

Cube (1997) Movie Review

Nix September 23, 2001

“Cube” is a strange, but good, movie. It’s one of the more creative movies I’ve seen in a long time. The film is Canadian in origin, and was finished, I believed, with the help...

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