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Stargate: Atlantis, Pilot (2004) TV Review
Wondering if you should bother with “Stargate: Atlantis” when you’ve never even seen a single episode of its predecessor, “Stargate: SG-1″? Here’s the quick answer: the first 30 minutes or so of the “Atlantis’”
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Creature Unknown (2003) Movie Review
“Creature Unknown” is about a group of friends who decide to get together in the woods on the 4th anniversary of another friend’s death. The reunion is being organized by Steve (Chris Hoffman), whose
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Throwdown (2004) Movie Review
I haven’t made any secrets of my admiration when it comes to the works of one Johnnie To. The man behind such excellent cinematic fare as “The Mission”, “PTU”, and just recently “Breaking News”,
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Adam and Evil (2004) Movie Review
Like most low-budget Teen Slashers about highschoolers, “Adam and Evil” stars a bunch of pretty, thin, and white 20-somethings (they didn’t even bother to throw in a Token Minority) who have just graduated from
Read More »Guilty Pleasures (1997) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Bill Paterson) Have you ever watched a horror movie and, rather than battle an irrational paranoia that you might somehow be killed, actually find yourself hoping for it? Well, I seriously
Read More »Heat Team (2004) Movie Review
You certainly wouldn’t mistake Dante Lam’s “Heat Team” to be anything of substance. It’s basically too much style-over-everything, with a number of choice scenes just screaming, “Pay attention, this is a real cool camera
Read More »Manhattan Midnight (2001) Movie Review
Although it’s set in New York and the language is English (with a smattering of Chinese thrown in for good measure), Alfred Cheung’s “Manhattan Midnight” could easily be categorized as a U.S. production, although
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Godzilla vs Megaguirus (2000) Movie Review
When “Godzilla 2000 Millennium” failed to set the box office on fire, Toho Ltd. fired the creative team and slashed the budget for the following film. The result should have been a disaster, a
Read More »Clementine (2004) Movie Review
In terms of Korean cinema, you’d call “Clementine” a B-movie. In any case, it’s certainly not a very good movie, and perhaps that has more to do with the hackneyed script than it does
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Elevated (1997) Movie Review
Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali burst onto the movie scene with the release of “Cube”, but has since moved onto bigger (although not necessarily better) things ala the big-budgeted “Cypher”. “Elevated” is a 1997 short
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Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) Movie Review
The Doctor Who series has been many things over the past few decades, but funny has never been one of them. And while director John Henderson and writer Steven Moffat may have only a
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) Movie Review
After a few years of no new Doctor Who, fans of the show would have been tickled to watch Tom Baker read from the Gallifrey dictionary for 2 hours. Instead, they got a 15-minute
Read More »And Then They Were Dead (2004) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Bill Paterson) As this is my first review for BeyondHollywood.com, let’s set a few ground rules. First, I don’t use big words just to show you how smart I am. I
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Suicide Club (2002) Movie Review
One of the most recent entries in the renaissance of Japanese horror cinema is an impressive but gory meditation on the power of pop culture on the public psyche. A pitch-black satire as well
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Lhorn (aka Soul, 2003) Movie Review
If you were looking for a horror movie to scare you, the Thai film “Lhorn” will disappoint. It’s not very scary, even though it tells multiple tales about ghosts and demons taking revenge on
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Spider-Man 2 (2004) Movie Review
It may be rated PG-13, but Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2″ is no kiddie picture. Of course that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bring your kids to see the further adventures of Spidey (Tobey Maguire) as
Read More »Bad(der) Santa (2003) Movie Review
“Bad Santa” probably marks the first time a major Hollywood film was released on DVD with the alternate version as the primary version, and the regular version (i.e. the one shown in theaters) making
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2LDK (2003) Movie Review
Like “Aragami”, the other half of the 2-movie “Duel” series (read the review of “Aragami” for an explanation), Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s “2LDK” feels stunted, which isn’t much of a surprise since the two movies (if
Read More »Serial Killing 4 Dummys (aka Serial Killing 101, 1999) Movie Review
“Serial Killing 4 Dummys” (sic) is listed at IMDB.com as a 2004 movie, but it’s actually a 1999 feature called “Serial Killing 101″. Being able to trick the all-knowing, all-powerful IMDB.com is quite a
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Blue Spring (2001) Movie Review
For anyone with delusions that Japanese high schools are orderly and filled with overly studious teens, “Blue Spring” is sure to shatter that idea. “Blue Spring” is a study of teenage nihilism, and while
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