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Predator (1987) Movie Review
Back when simple was appreciated, and brawn ruled over brains, John McTiernan’s “Predator” was king. I am talking, of course, about the ’80s, when patriotism wasn’t a 4-letter word and Hollywood was still trying...
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Predator 2 (1990) Movie Review
Despite offering up more violence, blood, killings, and a lot more gore, 1990′s “Predator 2″ somehow doesn’t come close to approaching the coolness that the original “Predator” radiated from every pore of its over-the-top...
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Returner (2002) Movie Review
Sometimes there’s just no real reason for a movie to be in the first place. Take the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl”, and now take the Japanese movie “Returner”. Both...
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Children of Dune (2003) Mini-Series TV Review
Let’s get it out of the way first: I have never read Frank Herbert’s “Dune” books. Not a single one. This was the case when I went into “Dune”, the original mini-series produced by...
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Event Horizon (1997) Movie Review
“Event Horizon” stars Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park 3″) as Dr. Weir, a troubled scientist who, along with the salvage crew of Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), are sent to salvage an experimental ship called the...
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Screamers (1995) Movie Review
“Robocop’s” Peter Weller headlines “Screamers” as Hendricksson, the burnt out commanding officer of a futuristic military faction called the Alliance. Hendricksson and his men have been fighting a war against the rival N.E.B. soldiers...
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Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) Movie Review
The only reason that could possibly explain the making of “Heavy Metal 2000″ is the cult following for the 1981 original. Unlike its predecessor, “Heavy Metal 2000: F.A.K.K. 2″ uses traditional cell animation in...
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Code Hunter (aka Stormwatch, 2002) Movie Review
At the risk of coming across like some Hollywood elitist, let me just say that low-budget filmmakers should be banned from ever making a movie about virtual reality ever again. I say this after...
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Movie Review
It really is not possible to over exaggerate the importance of a movie like “Terminator 2″ to action filmmaking, and just filmmaking in general. Besides pioneering cinematic morphing technology (the technique that mimics one...
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Solaris (2002) Movie Review
I’ve never been accused of going out of my way to see the year’s (insert present year here) “most thought-provoking movie”. It’s commonly known that I don’t always need a film to challenge me...
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Minority Report (2002) Movie Review
“Minority Report” takes place in the near future (50 years or so), and stars Tom Cruise as Anderton, the head of a Washington D.C. police bureau in charged of stopping murders before they take...
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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002) Movie Review
Sun-Woo Jang’s “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl” is one of the most intriguing failures I’ve come across in a long time. It’s about a food deliveryman who, in what can only be described...
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Men in Black 2 (2002) Movie Review
“Men in Black 2″ was a bona fide hit even before it hit theaters. Actually, it was a hit even before the studio announced they would be making a sequel to the original. With...
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The 6th Day (2000) Movie Review
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “The Sixth Day” is really a Comedy, and anyone who doesn’t want to be bored to death by its oh so routine action sequences should treat the film as such. The film...
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The Truman Show (1998) Movie Review
Peter Weir’s “The Truman Show” was the first movie that former rubberface comedian Jim Carrey served notice to the world that he was more than his talking posterior. Besides satirizing the then-fledging concept of...
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Alien (1979) Movie Review
The tagline for Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” is, “In space no one can hear you scream,” and is it ever appropriate. “Alien” is a claustrophobic film that makes you feel just as isolated, desperate,...
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Alien 3 (1992) Movie Review
David Fincher’s “Alien 3″ made one crucial mistake even before the first shot was put to celluloid. In the screenwriting phase, the writers killed off Hicks, Newt, and Bishop without so much as an...
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Aliens (1986) Movie Review
James Cameron’s “Aliens” is, in my humble opinion, the definitive Humans vs. Aliens movie. As far as I’m concern, every film that has come after “Aliens” are inferior clones. Even the animated “Final Fantasy”,...
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Galaxy Quest (1999) Movie Review
“Galaxy Quest” is a fanboy’s wet dream, and one hell of a movie concept. Its concept is so good I have to ask myself why no one has thought of it before. It’s just...
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Wing Commander (1999) Movie Review
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that “Wing Commander” is a bad movie; it’s just not as good as it could have been. The script is uninteresting, which is saying a lot...
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