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Monday, June 23, 2008

Superheroes and Samurai

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210. The French cartoonist, Jean Giraud, who goes by the pen name of Moebius, has one of the most distinctive drawing styles in the world. I...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Pussy Power

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206. Teeth (2007, directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein) wants in its black little heart to be a vicious satire of teen-age sexual mores, focus...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

Something New Under the Sun

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Every so often, when I think I've seen just about everything, something comes along and knocks me on my ass. This week, it's (201.) ...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Nine that Rip

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So, a couple of weeks ago, I picked up the recent Image disc for the Shaw Brothers film, The Magic Blade . Like most recent Shaw reissues fr...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Calamari

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I've put two new reviews on my main web site. They are: Iron Man (expanding--to put it mildly--on the comments I made here a couple of ...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Look Ma, No Subtitles!

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Staying away from the art house and the avant garde this week, I watched three fairly accomplished genre exercises. 185. And Soon the Darkne...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Begone Dull Care

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Just a quick round-up of last weeks movies. I didn't watch much in the way of features, but I worked my way through the second disc of N...
Monday, May 05, 2008

Where's Donald Duck?

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Mostly short films for me this week. More Looney Tunes from The Golden Collection, Volume 5, disc 2: Fun-Filled Fairy Tales 135. Bewitched B...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Merchants and Menace

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118. The character of Shylock has come to dominate the discourse surrounding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice that it tends to obsc...
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Monday, April 21, 2008

A Whole Lotta Tunes

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84. The Ruins (2008, directed by Carter Smith) is destined to be one of those minor classics that litter the horror genre. It's not amb...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Quick and Dirty

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I don't have much time this week, so some quick hits: 77. Ong-Bak (2003, directed by Prachya Pinkaew), in which Tony Jaa must retrieve ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

The Stone Face

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73. Much as I loved Lucky McKee's May , I can't say that I like the idea that he qualifies as a "Master of Horror" on the ...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Escapism

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69. So, there's not an original thought in Neil Marshall's Doomsday (2008). It doesn't take a film historian to spot the source...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

An Off Week.

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A bit of an off week for me. 65. Dario Argento's second installment for the Masters of Horror, Pelts (2006), is more recognizable as th...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Two Week's Worth

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49. Howard Hawks's Ball of Fire (1941) contains one of my favorite Billy Wilder screenplays (with Charles Brackett). A reworking of Sno...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Into the Archives

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I’ve accumulated a LOT of movies on VHS over the years. I’ve been weeding out the pre-records for a while now through eBay and other means, ...
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