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The Musketeer (2001) Movie Review
Alexandre Dumas is a French novelist, although you wouldn’t know it from all the countless film versions of his books by Americans, including ad nauseam versions of “The 3 Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte...
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Hana-Bi (1997) Movie Review
Detective Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is having a very bad week. It starts with the death of his 4-year old daughter, which leads to his wife’s hospitalization and discovery that she has terminal cancer, and...
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Movie Review
Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring” is an amazing film to behold. Consider that the movie, the first in a trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien books, is probably...
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Movie Review
I love period movies, but with one minor exception: I hate movie that takes place in the ’70s. I don’t know what it is about the era, maybe it’s the clothes that just completely...
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Pitch Black (2000) Movie Review
“Pitch Black” is a Last Stand in a Haunted House movie with a couple of variations on the formula: the haunted house is a sun-scorched planet with 3 suns and the ghosts are alien...
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Hot War (1998) Movie Review
I’m not a big fan of movies that shows more than one scene of someone typing on a computer keyboard. I have been using computers for over 10 years and unless I’m writing on...
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A Beautiful Mind (2001) Movie Review
“A Beautiful Mind” tells the real story of John Nash, a Princeton mathematician who actually still teaches there to this day. Nash is played by Russell Crowe, who is quickly distinguishing himself to be...
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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Movie Review
I will be the first to admit that my history is not as sharp or as extensive as I would like it to be, but I am reasonably sure neither the French nor the...
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Full-Time Killer (2001) Movie Review
Full-Time Killer concerns a professional assassin named O (Takashi Sorimachi), a Japanese living in Hong Kong (although he doesn’t speak Chinese) and happens to be the top assassin in Asia. All of Asia’s most...
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Violent Cop (1989) Movie Review
Azuma (Takeshi Kitano) is a 20th century cop living in a country still mired in the traditions of the past. Rookie cops kowtow to the veterans at every turn and even the homicidal drug...
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The Forsaken (2001) Movie Review
I have seen a lot of vampire movies, probably more than my share, to be honest. I have sat through funny vampire movies. Scary vampire movies. Bloody vampire movies. Science fiction vampire movies. Even...
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Sexy Beast (2000) Movie Review
I’m starting to wonder if there’s been any British movie that have made it to the States that isn’t a crime or heist film! After Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Essex...
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Snatch (2000) Movie Review
I have only seen two Guy Ritchie movies (he’s made 3 so far) and I can reasonably determine what the third movie will be like: 1) It will have a multitude of characters, some...
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Ginger Snaps (2000) Movie Review
The opening shots of Ginger Snaps — the identical lifeless homes of a planned community, where lots are still available for $125,000 each — says it all. The Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, lives...
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Evolution (2001) Movie Review
Evolution is an odd movie. It’s a movie with science fiction elements and bathroom-level humor. The characters are cardboard cutouts and not a single one of them should be doing what they’re doing in...
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Down to Earth (2001) Movie Review
Let me first say that I don’t get Chris Rock’s popularity. I know people who swear by their firstborn that Rock is the funniest man in America right now. Frankly, I just don’t see...
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Essex Boys (2000) Movie Review
My knowledge of England and all of its districts, ‘burbs, provinces, or whatever they call them over there, is as extensive as my knowledge of, say, particle physics — which is nonexistent. So, as...
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Jeepers Creepers (2001) Movie Review
Movies like “Jeepers Creepers” gives me hope that the Teen Slasher genre still has some life left in it. Written and directed by Victor Salva (“Powder”), the film follows college students Trish (Gina Philips)...
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Bandits (1997) Movie Review
Bandits is a German movie about a rock band made up of 4 different women with only one thing in common — they’re all currently serving sentences in prison. The band is led by...
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Jurassic Park 3 (2001) Movie Review
The original Jurassic Park was a best-selling novel about genetic engineering used on dinosaurs by the prolific novelist/filmmaker Michael Crichton. The book was turned into a movie by Steven Spielberg as an adventure romp...
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