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Blade 2 (2002) Movie Review

Blade 2 (2002) Movie Review

Nix July 13, 2002

In one particularly telling scene in Guillermo del Toro’s “Blade 2,” a vampire is nailed to the wall by another character’s sword, but instead of pulling the sword out and escaping that way, the...

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Spider-Man (2002) Movie Review

Spider-Man (2002) Movie Review

Nix June 26, 2002

The major treat of all “Golden Age” comic book characters is the simplicity of their Origin Story. Superman is an alien who came to Earth as a child and was raised by a kind...

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Fantastic Four (1994) Movie Review

Fantastic Four (1994) Movie Review

Nix May 8, 2002

Infamous film producer Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four is the movie that shouldn’t have been, but since it has found a way to become despite the odds, has been hidden so far in the Earth...

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The Crow 3: Salvation (2003) Movie Review

The Crow 3: Salvation (2003) Movie Review

Nix May 6, 2002

It’s amazing how a movie with the pedigree of The Crow: Salvation (or Crow 3) could fall so low. The entire franchise (there has been 3 in the series) is based on a comic...

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X-Men (2000) Movie Review

X-Men (2000) Movie Review

Nix March 31, 2002

Not many people know this, but the hit-movie Men in Black with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith actually started life as a comic book, published by an underground comic house. Men in Black...

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Faust: Love of the Damned (2000) Movie Review

Faust: Love of the Damned (2000) Movie Review

Nix March 30, 2002

Early in Brian Yuzna’s Faust: Love of the Damned, a doctor experimenting in what she calls “music therapy” to cure psychotic patients goes into the room of one of her patients, a mass murderer...

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Crying Freeman (1995) Movie Review

Crying Freeman (1995) Movie Review

Nix November 19, 2001

I must admit to being extremely frustrated with director Christophe Gans’ French version of the popular manga comic book. My frustration is part annoyance and part sadness. The annoyance comes from the fact that...

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