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A.f.r.i.k.a. (2001) Movie Review
The South Korean movie “A.f.r.i.k.a” is a Chicks on the Run film, a subgenre that is often associated with Road Movies, since the two subgenres often features combined conventions. Chicks on the Run films...
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April Story (1998) Movie Review
The Japanese film April Story, besides having an annoyingly sweet soundtrack, is a 1-hour film. It is a romance film at its core, but has elements of a Fish out of Water movie in...
Read More »The Bride With White Hair 2 (1993) Movie Review
Ronny Yu’s The Bride With White Hair 2 is a good example of a sequel that shouldn’t have been, and the two White Hair films, put together, is a good example of a movie...
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Alien 4: Resurrection (1997) Movie Review
Alien: Resurrection is the 4th installment in the Alien franchise, which began in 1979 as a Last Stand in a Haunted House movie set in space. The first sequel, James Cameron’s Aliens, did blockbuster...
Read More »Christmas in August (1998) Movie Review
Jin-ho Hur’s “Christmas in August” is the 1998 forerunner to his masterpiece “One Fine Spring Day”, and just like the other film, “Christmas” explores the human condition and sheds light on the power of...
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Waterworld (1996) Movie Review
1995′s Waterworld is the ultimate “troubled project.” When James Cameron’s Titanic was in production, the name Waterworld kept coming up over and over. The insinuation was that the big studios that had greenlit Cameron’s...
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Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989) Movie Review
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town is, to put it politely, a piece of excrement of a film. Even measuring it by Schlock Horror turd-o-meter, the film is grossly incompetent, badly executed, and laughable. Despite...
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Monsoon Wedding (2002) Movie Review
The inherent problem with reviewing a foreign film that comes from a country that you know very little about is, well, you know very little about the country. As a result, you (the critic...
Read More »The 51st State (aka Formula 51, 2001) Movie Review
In a way, Ronny Yu’s The 51st State is the celluloid version of the rave drug of choice, ecstasy — superficial, devoid of substance or deeper thought, and you’ll immediately feel empty after watching...
Read More »The Bride With White Hair (1993) Movie Review
The Bride With White Hair looks more like an overly produced and big budgeted stage play than an actual movie. As written and directed by Ronny Yu (with co-writer David Wu) The Bride With...
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The Princess and the Warrior (2001) Movie Review
Writer/director Tykwer’s follow-up to his breakthrough hit, 1998′s Run Lola Run, is 2000′s The Princess and the Warrior, a film that is not about a princess, a warrior, or a magical fantasyland. The movie...
Read More »Young and Dangerous 6: Born to be King (2000) Movie Review
Young and Dangerous 6: Born to be King is the latest chapter in the Young and Dangerous series, which began in 1996 and has become something of a phenomenon in Hong Kong. There have...
Read More »The Glass House (2001) Movie Review
The problem with “suspense thrillers” nowadays is that in an effort to “surprise” the audience, the filmmakers do some dumb things. Or, to be more precise, they have their characters do some dumb things....
Read More »Art Museum by the Zoo (1998) Movie Review
Jeong-hyang Lee’s “Art Museum by the Zoo” is not a very original movie. Let’s get that out of the way first, shall we? You’ve seen the exact same formula being played out in countless...
Read More »D-Tox (aka Eye See You, 2002) Movie Review
Sylvester Stallone’s new movie, D-Tox is a combination Ten Little Indians and a Slasher movie. A Ten Little Indians movie shares a lot of the conventions of a Last Stand In a Haunted House...
Read More »The Scorpion King (2002) Movie Review
Chuck Russell’s The Scorpion King is a relatively bloodless endeavor. Despite the giant weaponry, sea of flying arrows, and massive gathering of armies, the movie was made for a general mass audience, hence the...
Read More »Second Time Around (2001) Movie Review
My never-ending enthusiasm for Time Travel movies is one of the few things I can depend on about myself. Jeffrey Lau’s Second Time Around is a Time Travel movie, and like all Time Travel...
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) Movie Review
My memory of the original Vampire Hunter D, of which Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a sequel to, is a little hazy. The original came out in 1985 and I saw it...
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Night of the Blind Dead (1971) Movie Review
Spanish auteur Amando de Ossorio’s Night of the Blind Dead fits into a subgenre I like to call Schlock Horror. Schlock Horror movies are so bad that they’re…well, they’re just so bad it’s impossible...
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The Thing (1982) Movie Review
There are essentially two types of Last Stand in a Haunted House movie, ones made for teens and ones made for adults. Much of the conventions of a Last Stand in a Haunted House...
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