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Cherries (2008) Movie Review
“Cherries” is one of those films that comes to DVD with fantastically inappropriate and misleading box art, in this case featuring a variety of naked pictures of lead actress Miao Pu. Needless to say, viewers lured in by this cheap trick (the pictures in question are all taken from one brief scene) will soon find [...]
August 24th, 2008 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MoreBeautiful (2008) Movie Review
With “Beautiful” having been written and produced by grumpy Korean auteur Kim Ki Duk, known for searing explorations of the darker recesses of the human condition such as “Time” and “Breath”, viewers should have a pretty good idea up front of what they are letting themselves in for. Indeed, although the film was actually directed [...]
August 21st, 2008 | James Mudge | 3 Comments | Read MoreMissing (2008) Movie Review
The prospect of “Missing” inspires both hope and trepidation, marking as it does the return of Tsui Hark, the one time golden boy of Hong Kong cinema, who since his peak in the heady days of the 1980s and early 1990s has suffered a slow decline in fortunes. With his highly touted 2005 comeback feature [...]
August 21st, 2008 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Music Box (aka Barber, 2006) Movie Review
It’s hard not to view “The Music Box” without a certain amount of melancholy, given that it marks the final outing of acclaimed Chinese director and artist Chen Yi Fei, whose “Evening Liaison” was highly praised at Cannes in 1995. A master painter who studied in New York and whose landscapes regularly fetched high prices [...]
August 21st, 2008 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MoreMirrors (2008) Movie Review
Being abnormally obsessed with Asian horror, about a year ago, on a whim, I bought “Into the Mirror” (“Geoul sokeuro,” 2003) through eBay. Written and directed by Sung-ho Kim, the film focuses on Woo Yeong-min (Ji-tae Yu of “Oldboy” fame), a traumatized former police officer who now works as a security guard in his uncle’s [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Bodhi Grrl | 0 Comments | Read MoreWhere in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) Movie Review
Morgan Spurlock, the man famous for putting on the pounds eating McDonalds three meals a day for thirty days in Super Size Me, is back and he’s on a mission, a global one this time. He’s decided that he doesn’t want to bring his unborn child into a world where the US can’t find one [...]
August 18th, 2008 | Jodie Bass | 1 Comment | Read MoreTropic Thunder (2008) Movie Review
As a rule, I avoid comedies like the plague. Either they are too low-brow for my tastes, relying on flatulence or gross sexual situations for laughs, or they cannot sustain their humor. Comedies also tend to be dominated by flavor-of-the-month performers, usually someone who was on “Saturday Night Live,” who churn out one film after [...]
August 18th, 2008 | Bodhi Grrl | 0 Comments | Read MoreKung Fu Killer (2008) Movie Review
Kung Fu Killer, much like it’s name, is a seriously flawed blend of quality elements that just don’t mix well. David Carradine isn’t a great actor but in the right role, like his plausible bad guy in Kill Bill, he’s near perfect. Daryl Hannah, too, can be charming and captivating in the right environment. Neither [...]
August 17th, 2008 | Jodie Bass | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Chaser (2008) Movie Review
Korean film “The Chaser” comes on an incredible wave of critical acclaim, having won the Grand Prize award at the 44th Baeksang Art Awards, as well as the five top prizes at the 45th Daejong Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, not to mention having been very well received at Cannes. On [...]
August 8th, 2008 | James Mudge | 2 Comments | Read MoreThe Midnight Meat Train (2008) Movie Review
All I want to know is what did writer-producer Clive Barker and/or director Ryuhei Kitamura do or say to someone at Lion’s Gate to get their $15 million film “Midnight Meat Train” dumped into second-run cinemas on its opening week? Did they kidnap an executive’s family and set everyone on fire in front of him? [...]
August 8th, 2008 | Bodhi Grrl | 2 Comments | Read More
It looks like a dud. I saw the trailer. Tom is the only person speaking with an American news network ...
nothing they payed fox.... 
OMG!!!! 
