Articles in European Movie Reviews
Scarfies (1999) Movie Review
The New Zealand movie “Scarfies” is a good movie only if you can forgive its farcical and truly terrible ending. The film, about 5 college students who discover an elaborate marijuana stash growing in the basement of their rundown house, requires you to take one big leap of faith. It’s this: Upon discovering the marijuana, [...]
June 28th, 2003 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreBirthday Girl (2001) Movie Review
I don’t think I’m ruining anything by saying that Nicole Kidman (”The Others”) stars in “Birthday Girl” as a Russian mail-order bride who turns out to be one part of a 3-person con operation. This also adds to my ongoing theory that movie trailers nowadays are only useful if you don’t want to be surprised [...]
June 20th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MorePrincess of Thieves (2001) Movie Review
It’s unfathomable that I wouldn’t like “Princess of Thieves”. It has everything I’ve come to appreciate — it’s a period movie, it has swords and horses, knights and battles, the Robin Hood legend, and best of all, a gorgeous lead in the young Miss Keira Knightley. Why, then, was I bored out of my mind [...]
June 15th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDobermann (1997) Movie Review
It would be a mistake to consider Jan Kounen’s “Dobermann” an actual movie. It’s a 90-minute music video in the guise of a “clever” crime thriller with hidden desires to be cheap splatterpunk nonsense. The plot is appropriately simplistic, and the characters are accordingly over the top, given little annoying traits in lieu of actual [...]
May 27th, 2003 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreThe Pool (2001) Movie Review
“The Pool” joins the recent spate of German-made Teen Slasher movies to go international. Although the film is made by Germans and set in Prague, and most of the actors are German, the film’s American pedigree makes its classification as a German film somewhat irrelevant. You have to respect the people behind “The Pool” because [...]
May 3rd, 2003 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreNobody Knows Anybody (1999) Movie Review
The title of the Spanish film “Nobody Knows Anybody” is probably too appropriate for its own good. The movie, about a lonely man who gets drawn into a dangerous and elaborate game is reminiscent of David Fincher’s “The Game”, and indeed more than a couple of elements from Fincher’s movie finds their way into Mateo [...]
April 22nd, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDemons (1985) Movie Review
Surprisingly, I had a lot of hope for “Demons”, and was anticipating its first reveal of the demons that would terrorize our characters with bated breath. And then the demons were revealed, and all the hope and expectation I had for Lamberto Bava’s 1985 horror film, “Demons”, sank like the intelligence of teen characters in [...]
April 7th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDeathwatch (2002) Movie Review
As further proof of the sad state of horror films nowadays, I give you the British movie “Deathwatch” and the recently reviewed Spanish/U.S. collaboration “Darkness”. Two films, made by very competent directors using super slick visuals, a big budget, a competent cast, and from their own screenplay. And yet both films are as scary as [...]
April 4th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreNowhere in Africa (2001) Movie Review
I’m reasonably certain that Caroline Link’s “Nowhere in Africa” will strike a cord with a lot of people. After all, it did when the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2002, although how a movie made in 2001 qualifies for the 2002 Oscars, given out in 2003, is just one more mystery in a long [...]
April 3rd, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More28 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 mention this only because “28 Days Later” is, in a nutshell, a retread of Romero’s “Dead” trilogies, most notably “Day of [...]
March 27th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MorePorno 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. Using Charlie’s extensive knowledge of all things porn, the trio sets out to make the “first real Slovenia porn film”, in [...]
March 18th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreRiders 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 wrong:
The thieves are distinctive looking: One is white with spiked blond hair; the other is a woman with wild blonde [...]
That synopsis makes no sense to me. Basically what your saying is Dom and Letty are in two different places. ...
Mike,
This could be the beginning of the next Great sci-fi series.
It could be as big as Star Wars--if down correctly.
I ...
Thank you for the detailed review! I've put this on my que to watch. 
I think these guys are outta control.....yes the re-make of Texas Chainsaw was good..not great but good....plus the TCM franchise ...
