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Manborg (2011) Movie Review
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
“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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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” 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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