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28 Days Later (2002) Movie Review
My reaction to Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” would probably be a lot more positive if I hadn’t just finished watching Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”. I...
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Porno Film (2000) Movie Review
Charlie, the protagonist of the Slovenia film “Porno Film”, is so dedicated to his porn viewing that his two friends John and Frank jokes that he must have a P.H.D. in pornography by now....
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Riders (aka Steal, 2002) Movie Review
“Riders”, a movie about four tight-knit thieves (supposedly) under 30 who uses their extreme sports ability to stick it to The Man by robbing them and giving to their retirement fund, does these things...
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Open Your Eyes (1997) Movie Review
Having seen Cameron Crowe’s American remake of Spaniard Alejandro Amenabar’s “Open Your Eyes” first, it’s inevitable that I would make the mistake of comparing “Open Your Eyes” to “Vanilla Sky” and not the other...
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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...
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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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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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Winter War (1989) Movie Review
If you could use movies as a measure of real life (which you should never do, natch), then the World War II movie “Enemy at the Gates”, and now “Winter War”, teaches us that,...
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Bend it Like Beckham (2002) Movie Review
It’s no surprise that “Bend It Like Beckham” is coming to American theaters sometime later this year after a successful run in its native England. It’s one of those “feel good” hits that will...
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Moonlight (2002) Movie Review
The Dutch movie “Moonlight” follows a young girl name Claire (Laurien Van den Broeck), an isolated girl who, as we first see her, has just gotten her period. Claire lives with her wealthy adopted...
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Irreversible (2002) Movie Review
“Irreversible” opens slowly, quickly shifts into a chaotic but exciting series of events, before falling back down to Earth and eventually becoming dull. The French film opens with writer/director Gaspar Noe trying to prove...
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Executive Protection (2001) Movie Review
“Executive Protection” has the distinction of being the first film from Sweden to be reviewed on Nixflix.com. It’s an action film, although the action is kept to a minimum despite what the boxcover and...
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Das Boot: The Director’s Cut (1981) Movie Review
I am told German Wolfgang Petersen’s movie “Das Boot” is the submarine movie by which all submarine movies are measured. It just so happens that the submarine in question is a German one, and...
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About a Boy (2002) Movie Review
I believe the reason “About a Boy” is so good is because it’s hard to peg the movie into any (or any couple of) categories. It’s not exactly a Comedy, since there’s very little...
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Mean Machine (2003) Movie Review
The British Sports in Prison movie “Mean Machine” is a remake of the American Sports in Prison film “The Longest Yard,” about convicts who uses a game of football to get back at their...
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Heaven (2002) Movie Review
“Heaven” is the latest film from German Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”), and stars Cate Blanchette (“Bandits”) as Philippa, an Englishwoman in Italy who plants a bomb in a man’s office, only to have...
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Gangster No. 1 (2004) Movie Review
There is something insanely enjoyable about Paul McGuigan’s English crime film “Gangster No. 1.” Aside from the rather oddball title, the movie brings a fresh perspective to the Rise and Fall of the Gangster...
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Intimacy (2001) Movie Review
“Intimacy” is the kind of film that you never see being made in America. This could be for a number of reasons, from the average American’s belief that anything with vast amounts of nudity...
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Dark Blue World (2001) Movie Review
There is a very disturbing trend in cinema nowadays. I used to think it was just American cinema, but it appears that, with “Dark Blue World,” even the international community is getting into the...
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Long Time Dead (2002) Movie Review
Besides being incredibly lacking in originality, scares, or even those small guilty pleasures I always manage to find in any Slasher film, the new British Slasher flick “Long Time Dead” doesn’t even have the...
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