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Bandits (2001) Movie Review
The problem with a lot of Hollywood movies nowadays is that everything’s been done and the powers that be don’t feel it necessary to make a movie that “breaks the mold” with every one...
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Joint Security Area (2000) Movie Review
Chan-wook Park’s “Joint Security Area” (“JSA”) tells the tale of 5 soldiers — 3 North Koreans and 2 South Koreans — who become involved in a bloody gun battle one cold night while manning...
Read More »Joy Ride (2001) Movie Review
Don’t mess with truckers.” Or at least that’s the lesson of John Dahl’s Joyride, a movie that is part Slasher and part Suspense Thriller. Joyride opens with college freshman Lewis (Paul Walker) in California...
Read More »Tokyo Raiders (2000) Movie Review
Tokyo Raiders is an action/comedy that stars one of my favorite Hong Kong actors, Tony Leung, who plays a dashing private investigator/ spy/ government agent/ ladies man. Prolific actor Ekin Cheng once again rears...
Read More »Prince of Darkness (1987) Movie Review
Writer/director John Carpenter must like Last Stand in a Haunted House movies as much as I do, because almost every single one of the man’s movies meet the criteria for such a movie or...
Read More »Skyline Cruisers (2000) Movie Review
There are a lot of differences between a Heist film and a Caper film. A Caper film concerns itself with looking “cool” as its protagonists steal from or break into high-tech security systems, buildings,...
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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Movie Review
Ang Lee’s movies always find a way to surprise me. Maybe that’s why I like them so much — I go in not expecting much, but come out having learned a lot about life....
Read More »Desert Saints (2002) Movie Review
Desert Saints is a Hitman’s Last Job picture, essentially a Hitman film that relies on that tried and true (and clich’ to the nth degree) premise of a famous hitman who goes on one...
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The Nameless (1999) Movie Review
Jaume Balaguero’s The Nameless is a stylish psychological thriller that owes more than just a cursory homage to the works of American director David Fincher, who has revolutionize the way films are shot with...
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Enigma (2002) Movie Review
Michael Apted’s Enigma is a World War II suspense/mystery and concerns the British’s attempts to break the German code machine called Enigma. The American World War II movie U-571 breached the same subject, but...
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Avenging Fist (2001) Movie Review
Hong Kong actor Ekin Cheng (Second Time Around) is prolific, but unfortunately it’s the kind of prolific that goes for quantity over quality. I can scarcely sit down to watch a Hong Kong film...
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Fantastic Four (1994) Movie Review
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...
Read More »Behind Enemy Lines (2001) Movie Review
Director John Moore’s Behind Enemy Lines takes place sometime in the mid ’90s, at around the time when the different factions engaged in war within the borders of the former Yugoslavia — the Bosnians,...
Read More »The Rookie (2002) Movie Review
I really don’t have a lot to say about Dennis Quaid’s new movie, The Rookie. It’s a fairly entertaining movie even if you don’t like baseball because it’s not so much about baseball as...
Read More »From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter (2000) Movie Review
The direct-to-video movie, From Dusk til Dawn 3 is the third installment in the From Dusk til Dawn (heretofore known as FDTD) franchise. The original film was written by and co-starred Quentin Tarantino as...
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The Crow 3: Salvation (2003) Movie Review
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...
Read More »Tales from the Crypt Presents: The Ritual (2001) Movie Review
The Ritual’s full title is actually Tales From the Crypt Presents: The Ritual, but for brevity’s sake, or perhaps to separate it from the now less-than-profitable TV show of the same name, the producers...
Read More »Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Movie Review
I have seen John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China more than 30 times, and each time it comes on TV I am fixated to the screen and unable to turn away. It is...
Read More »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...
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