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Uzumaki (2000) Movie Review
Uzumaki is the story of highschooler Kirie, who opens the film with a brief voiceover introduction. We learn that Kirie lives in a small rural Japanese town with her father (her mother has passed...
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The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) Movie Review
You either love Film Noir or you hate them. There really is no in-between. You either love the use of shadows, the black and white, the voiceover narration, the “me versus the world” themes,...
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The Dish (2000) Movie Review
It’s 1969 and Neil Armstrong and the crew of Apollo 11 are about to land on the moon, and everyone in America is waiting with bated breath. What we didn’t know back then, and...
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No Man’s Land (2001) Movie Review
The Serbian Conflict, as it’s most widely known, involved various sides for around 8 years in what is the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. There were the Serbs, the Croats, the Bosnians, and various...
Read More »Once Upon a Time in China (1991) Movie Review
Jet Li’s 1990s Hong Kong career had him reprising two parts, Fong Sai-yuk and Wong Fei-hung, in a series of films starring either character. Both are supposed to be real historical figures, although I’m...
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) Movie Review
I will first grant you that I find the main premise behind Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within to be just a little silly, with its focus on the Earth as a “living being” with...
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Komodo (1999) Movie Review
Creatures Attack Movies are not my cup of tea. I usually prefer Zombies Attack or Aliens Attack Movies to creatures any day. Why? Most of the time I find the “creature” in a Creatures...
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Ring (aka Ringu, 1998) Movie Review
Let me preface my review by saying that I saw the sequel to “Ring”, “Ring 2″, before I saw the original. Of course this means a lot of things were lost to me (while...
Read More »My Wife is a Gangster (2001) Movie Review
The most extraordinary thing about My Wife is a Gangster isn’t how well it manages to balance its serious side, its comedy side, and its action side, but how effective the whole thing is....
Read More »Meet The Parents (2000) Movie Review
Robert De Niro is really making a name for himself as a comedic actor. It seems inevitable that a movie star of DeNiro’s stature, known for gangster and tough guy roles, would want to...
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1998) Movie Review
A movie like Hiroyuki Okiura’s Jin-Roh is why the Japanese are considered the pioneers of animation. Over the last decade or so the shortcomings of American “cartoons” and animation have become painfully obvious when...
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The American Embassy: Pilot (2002) TV Review
For those interested, the Fox new drama, The American Embassy, was actually called Emma Brody after its lead character played by newcomer Arija Bareikis, who looks like a healthy Calista Flockhart. The show’s title...
Read More »Point Men (2001) Movie Review
It is my theory that by the time he makes his 50th movie, actor Christopher Lambert (Highlander) will be completely mute and unable to speak a line of dialogue. Before you call me crazy,...
Read More »The Tai Chi Master (aka Twin Warriors, 1993) Movie Review
I can’t tell you how many Hong Kong period martial arts movies I’ve seen, and I can’t tell you how many of those involves strangers joining a group of good rebels to fight the...
Read More »The Order (2001) Movie Review
Let me preface my review of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s new movie, The Order, by saying that I hate chases that takes place in movies. I generally don’t like car chases, people chases, or even...
Read More »Donnie Darko (2001) Movie Review
I can’t get enough of time travel movies, or TV episodes involving time travel. Some of the best episodes of “Star Trek” (in all its various incarnations) have all involved time traveling. Why do...
Read More »Whispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori (1999) Movie Review
“Memento Mori” is a South Korean movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be, and when it finally decides what it should be, it makes the wrong choice. “Memento mori,” for those who...
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Waking Life (2001) Movie Review
You know how when you’re talking to someone and instead of saying what they think or feel, they recall what they’ve read that someone else has said, and recite those sayings to you, as...
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Croupier (1998) Movie Review
I know a lot of people like the ones that appears in Mike Hodges’ Croupier, a movie about a novelist who takes a job as a casino dealer (or croupier) when he runs out...
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The Straight Story (1999) Movie Review
In a state as big as Texas, where I am from and is currently living, it’s quite impossible to travel between two big cities without having to cross hours of open country in-between. Most...
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