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Mu Sa Do (aka Las Vegas Warrior, 2002) Movie Review
Take this scene, which occurs around the hour mark in “Mu Sa Do”, and really epitomizes much of the film: our leading man and leading lady — an underground fighter and a reporter, respectively
Read More »Colour of the Truth (2003) Movie Review
“Color of the Truth” sports such a dubious pedigree that I sat on it for nearly a month before finally taking a stab at it today. Yes, I’m talking about the presence of the
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Spooks aka MI-5: Pilot (2002) TV Review
The British should probably reconsider making too many movies and TV shows about their intelligence agencies. After all, look at what’s happened to the Americans. After 30-plus years of Hollywood dragging the reputation of
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Alien Hunter (2003) Movie Review
There’s a reason why independent filmmakers who make a living selling moderately budgeted genre movies to videos and cable outlets insist on using generic titles for their movies. It helps to attract the attention
Read More »Cover Story (2002) Movie Review
You know you’re about to watch a pretty bad movie when you notice that a character — who is living in a fancy and expensive penthouse suite — is typing on a computer with
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Ong-bak (2003) Movie Review
The Thai movie “Ong-bak” is the type of film sane movie stuntmen avoid. Why? Because “Ong-bak” is a vicious and violent (although not very bloody) martial arts film that is less concern with the
Read More »8 Mile (2002) Movie Review
The question everyone had coming into “8 Mile”, the new movie by director Curtis Hanson (“L.A. Confidential”) was: Can Eminem act? Well, the answer is maybe. Yes, Eminem, white rapper extraordinaire, can indeed act;
Read More »Looking for Mr. Perfect (2003) Movie Review
If you’ve seen enough Hong Kong movies you may start to notice that a lot of the same people keep showing up in the same movies. It’s because the present Hong Kong film industry
Read More »Moving August (2002) Movie Review
The biggest obstacle with “Moving August” isn’t its obviously low budget, or even its limited locale and resources, but rather this: the movie expects us to believe that average looking August (Eddie McClintock) would
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Bruce Almighty (2003) Movie Review
There’s a recent trend with a lot of so-called comedies that comes out of Hollywood that states that the trailer is usually funnier than the actual movie. This is because the trailer gets to
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Ghost Rig (aka The Devil’s Tattoo, 2001) Movie Review
The British horror film “Ghost Rig”, essentially a Last Stand in a Haunted House movie set on an oil rig, immediately peaks my attention. Not because it’s an outstanding horror flick, but because of
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) Movie Review
One of the more irritating conventions of Teen Slasher films is that our teen lead is determined to “spread the word” about the killer, even though no one will believe her, not having seen
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy’s Dead – The Final Nightmare (1991) Movie Review
From the very first musical chorus in the soundtrack you know “NOES 6: The Final Nightmare” is not like the others. For one, it’s the franchise’s first entry in the ’90s and the soundtrack
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) Movie Review
1994′s “NOES 7″ (aka “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”) came 3 years after the final, miserable sequel, and I’m hardpressed to call it horror at all. The movie is more suspense/thriller doused in heavy post-modernism.
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) Movie Review
Besides Freddy Krueger, the Teen Slasher franchise “A Nightmare On Elm Street” is known for one other thing: the uselessness of adults. Teen Slasher films have always found adults to be relatively clueless, but
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987) Movie Review
The first thing you notice about “NOES 3: The Dream Warriors” is the seamless transition from waking scenes to dream scenes. Director Chuck Russell (“Eraser”) handles the camerawork fluidly, which is one of many
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Movie Review
Granted, the phrase, “Man, that just doesn’t make sense” seems to go hand in hand with a horror franchise about a supernatural killer that haunts and then slaughters teens in their dreams. Then again,
Read More »Haunted Office (2002) Movie Review
“Haunted Office”, a 2002 offering from Hong Kong, is a horror anthology consisting of 3 episodes set in the same haunted office building. Unlike other anthologies, there isn’t a middleman (e.g. the Crypt Keeper)
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Down to Hell (1996) Movie Review
Much like the feature length movie that would follow it, the Super 8 short “Down to Hell” needs to be seen to be believed. It’s not that writer/director/camera operator/caterer/janitor Ryuhei Kitamura has created something
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Dead Like Me: Pilot (2003) TV Review
People say that when you’re about to die you can feel Death’s icy fingers on the back of your neck. According to the new Showtime comedy/drama “Dead Like Me”, it’s not actually Death himself
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