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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) Movie Review
The Finnish “Rare Exports” has been building up some great word of mouth on the festival circuit as a sure fire cult hit, thanks in no small part to an outlandish plot based around...
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Jade Warrior (2006) Movie Review
“The Fins do wuxia.” Something isn’t quite right about that statement, but that’s not going to stop first-time writer/director Antti-Jussi Annila. The writer/director of “Jade Warrior” has constructed an earnest melodrama set against the...
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Book of Fate (2003) Movie Review
Movie anthologies are very hard to critique. With some, like the Japanese “Twilight Zone”-esque “Tales of the Unusual”, I reviewed each segment as individuals, and that seemed to work. And so, with that in...
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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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