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Wing Chun (1994) Movie Review
Some day someone will do a serious study of woman’s roles in Ancient China, but until then, we have Yuen Woo-ping’s Wing Chun to keep us busy. Wing Chun stars action mistress Michelle Yeoh...
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Malena (2000) Movie Review
Malena takes place in the 1940s, as Italy gears up for war with the Allied nations, confident in its superiority and in its righteousness. The film stars the beautiful Italian actress Monica Belluci (Brotherhood...
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Blade (1998) Movie Review
The new trend for horror films, or movies dealing with the traditional creatures of horror films (vampires, werewolves, monsters, etc.) has been, for the last decade or so, to find a new “twist” to...
Read More »Plunkett and Macleane (1999) Movie Review
Jake Scott, the director of Plunkett and Macleane, is the son of director Ridley Scott (Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), and this may explain why he, a young man without much of a resume,...
Read More »Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997) Movie Review
As was the case with the original Once Upon a Time in China (heretofore known as OUATIC) I don’t expect a lot of historical accuracies in Chinese movies dealing with the “outside world.” It’s...
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Paranoid (2000) Movie Review
Like some people I know, some movies think they’re more interesting than they really are. This is the case with John Duigan’s Paranoid. Paranoid stars Jessica Alba (TV’s “Dark Angel”) as Chloe, an up-and-coming...
Read More »Gen-X Cops (1999) Movie Review
At one dangerous point in Benny Chan’s Gen-X Cops, the movie’s 3 protagonists, all undercover cops, find themselves surrounded by men with guns aimed at their heads. One of the cops, thinking fast, grabs...
Read More »Sorum (2001) Movie Review
I was hesitant to watch Sorum, simply because I’ve seen too many Asian horror films that just didn’t, well, horrify me all that much. The Slow Bore Horror genre, in particular, is wearing thin,...
Read More »One Hour Photo (2002) Movie Review
Photos are curious things. I don’t particularly go out of my way to take photos, but when I do take them I sometimes (and I believe most of us do this) act “happier” than...
Read More »Resident Evil (2002) Movie Review
I once played Resident Evil 2, the sequel to the original Resident Evil, on a Playstation for 8 hours straight, completely obsessed with beating it. I did finally beat the game, and had some...
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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...
Read More »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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