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Shadows of Love (aka Repeat I Love You, 2012) Movie Review
“Hi, Fidelity” writer director Calvin Poon returns with pan-Asian romantic comedy “Shadows of Love”, this time backed by acclaimed film maker Stanley Kwan (“Rouge”, “Centre Stage”) lending his talents as producer. The film features...
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Encapsulated Cinema One-Shot: Darren Lynn Bousman’s The Barrens
I’ve been holding out hope that someone with a knack for horror would deliver a solid genre flick centered around the Jersey Devil. I’m beginning to think such a request simply too much to...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Movie Review
It’s impossible for me to talk about “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” without first discussing the delivery mechanism. Over the past few months there has been much back and forth over the fact that...
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Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault (2012) Movie Review
Popular Taiwanese television action drama “Black and White” makes it to the big screen in suitably bombastic fashion with feature “Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault”, co-written and directed by series...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Clint Eastwood has old man troubles in Robert Lorenz’s directorial debut, the baseball drama “Trouble with the Curve”. Of course, calling “Trouble with the Curve” a baseball movie is missing the point. It’s a...
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Lan Kwai Fong 2 (2012) Movie Review
Viewers are cordially invited to take a trip back to Hong Kong’s heaving, bump and grind nightlife centre in “Lan Kwai Fong 2”, the sequel to one of the surprise hits of summer 2011....
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Encapsulated Cinema One-Shot: Street Fighter – The Legend of Chun Li
Full disclosure: I own director Andrzej Bartkowiak’s goofy 2009 action flick Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li on DVD. It’s not that I think the movie is good by any stretch of the imagination,...
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The Baytown Outlaws (2012) Movie Review
Director Barry Battles’ feature film directorial debut, the self-styled “Southern Whip-Ass Extravaganza” (though later promos for the film have lowered that by a very noticeable decibel or two) pits three violent Alabama brothers against...
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Deadfall (2012) Movie Review
On the surface, Stefan Ruzowitzky’s crime-thriller “Deadfall” has a huge upside. When brother-sister robbers Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) knock over a casino—Liza’s first big score—and make a clean getaway, things look...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Thunderstruck (2012)
“Thunderstruck”, a kid’s movie about a high school teenager (who, you know, can actually pass for a high school teenager, and not a 20-seomthing Luke Perry “playing” a high school teenager) who magically inherits...
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TV Review: The Walking Dead – 3.08 – Made To Suffer (SPOILERS)
Many of us spent last season desperately waiting for something, anything to happen on AMC’s “The Walking Dead”. With the exception of last week’s episode, season three has done a fine job rectifying this...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Dark Knight takes on his biggest and most dangerous enemy yet in Bane, a muscle-bound terrorist intent on bringing Gotham City and its self-appointed protector to its knees in Christopher Nolan’s third and...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: The Apparition (2012)
Captain America’s sidekick Sebastian Stan battles the supernatural with his girlfriend, Ashley Greene (of “Twilight” fame, sans vampire powers) and the help (albeit much later on in the movie) of the evil kid from...
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Killing Them Softly (2012) Movie Review
The last time star Brad Pitt and writer/director Andrew Dominik teamed up was for “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. That film is a long, slow burn; drifting in and...
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The Collection (2012) Movie Review
So, do all serial killers these days need tools and snares and an intricate system of booby traps in order to ply their trade? If the current trend in horror is to be believed,...
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Nix vs. The Zombie Apocalypse II: Cockneys vs. Zombies, Dead Season and Devil’s Crossing
COCKNEYS VS. ZOMBIES (2012) Zombies invade the East End of London, where hapless brothers Andy (Harry Treadaway) and Terry (Rasmus Hardiker) plot to rob a bank with the help of their feisty cousin Katie...
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TV Review: The Walking Dead – 3.07 – When The Dead Come Knocking (SPOILERS)
Well Glenn (Steven Yeun) certainly showed that he really is one tough son of a bitch in “When the Dead Come Knocking,” the latest episode of AMC’s “The Walking Dead”. There’s no doubt why...
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The Day (2011) Movie Review
The apocalypse is bad enough, but throw in a pack of starving cannibals that like to attack in numbers? Man, could things get any worst? Turns out, yes — when a member of a...
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New on Blu-ray: Harold & Kumar Ultimate Collector’s Edition
Bestest pals Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) — and, er, their buddy Neil Patrick Harris (played by Neil Patrick Harris) — have been through a lot together, but one thing...
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Sadako (2012) Movie Review
Has it really been nigh on 15 years since the world of horror was changed by a small girl with long black hair and a dirty white dress crawling out of a television set?...
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