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Purple Butterfly (2003) Movie Review
“Purple Butterfly” is a movie with the makings of a great film, but is unfortunately marred by a couple of silly decisions that should have been avoided. There is little doubt that Ye Lou
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984) Movie Review
“Nausicaa” (also known by the longer title, “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”) is based on the manga series of the same name, written and drawn by the film’s writer/director Hayao Miyazaki. The
Read More »Trans-American Killer (aka Switch Killer, 2004) Movie Review
Less an actual movie than a reason to film inside a strip club and show a lot of strippers plying their trade, “Trans-American Killer” (known overseas as “Switch Killer”) is pure B-grade Slasher material,
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Nobody Knows (2004) Movie Review
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda has built somewhat of a cult reputation for off centre, documentary-like dramas, such as his Heaven-set “After Life” and the Dogme style “Distance”, which starred Tadanobu Asano. Although his films
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Sword in the Moon (2003) Movie Review
I’m pretty sure the South Korean martial arts/period movie “Sword in the Moon” is wall-to-wall swordfighting action; I just wish I could see some of it. Granted, since the movie is about assassins, and
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Enter: Zombie King (2003) Movie Review
There are certain films in which logic is some sort of abstract notion, something to be considered but never truly taken seriously. “Enter…Zombie King” is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of these
Read More »The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Movie Review
It’s no secret that I dislike 2002′s “The Bourne Identity”, which I feel is nothing more than the wanton raping of Robert Ludlum’s original novel. Imagine, if you will, an upstart without any proven
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Blade 3: Trinity (2004) Movie Review
If you enjoyed the originality of the original “Blade”, and thought Del Toro’s “Blade 2″ was hells on wheels, mannerisms and good taste be damned, then David Goyer’s “Blade: Trinity”, the third and supposedly
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Samurai (aka Samourais, 2002) Movie Review
Generally speaking, blending genres is a good idea, and while it requires a delicate touch to pull off, when properly handled the result is a film that appeals to the viewer on several levels,
Read More »Gargoyles (2004) Movie Review
Here’s a confession: if not for my affinity for Michael Pare, who dominated the direct-to-video action genre in the ’90s and was an A-list movie star in the ’80s (“Streets of Fire” being one
Read More »Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004) Movie Review
Chuan Lu’s “Mountain Patrol” is truly extraordinary in many ways, not least in the incredible real-life hardships endured by the cast and crew during the filmmaking process. The film was actually shot on location
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Deadly Camp (1999) Movie Review
Along with the likes of “Bloody Beach” and “The Record”, “The Deadly Camp” is another Eastern take on that most venerable of cinematic forms, the U.S. slasher film, and is further proof that the
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The Forgotten (2004) Movie Review
The Forgotten” is a hard film to review, in much the same way that it is hard to properly articulate the feelings brought about by an extended bout of vomiting. This is Hollywood at
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Zhou Yu’s Train (2002) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Edward Lee) Love drives human beings wild. Ever since the first two people fell in love, love has been full of equal parts splendor and monotony, passion and indifference, sanity and
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Gun Crazy: Vol. 1 – A Woman From Nowhere (2002) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Edward Lee) The world loves a good western. As a matter of fact, Europeans loved them so much that, when distribution problems of the early 1960s made these movies increasingly difficult
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Private Obsession (1995) Movie Review
“Private Obsession” stars Shannon Whirry. If you don’t know the name, then you weren’t around during the Golden ’90s, back when you couldn’t walk into your local mom and pop video store (they still
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Azumi (2003) Movie Review
Ryuhei Kitamura’s “Azumi” is surprisingly very ordinary, especially considering its 140-minute running length and the movie coming from the director of the hyper zombie epic “Versus”. It can be said that “Azumi” shows the
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In My Skin (2002) Movie Review
Cannibalism is a popular theme in lowbrow exploitation cinema, exemplified by films such as “Cannibal Holocaust” and “The Untold Story”, though the subject rarely rears its ugly head in more artistically and critically acceptable
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Devil Touch (2002) Movie Review
Director Billy Tang is best known for category III classics such as “Red to Kill” and “Dr. Lamb”, and since the majority of his less graphic films have been disappointingly pedestrian, it is with
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Dracula 3000 (2004) Movie Review
There are bad movies, and then there is “‘Dracula 3000″, a science fiction/horror/unintentional comedy (or is it?) set in the year 3000, where people are flying around in spaceships, but wheelchairs still look like
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