Monthly Archives: May 2010

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Review)

There is one scene, a really short one, perhaps 40 seconds, in Ghost Dog that stands out from the rest. It just seems shoe-horned in, inappropriate. Wrong. The rest, thankfully, is brilliant, but that one scene lingers. It’s hard to … Continue reading

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Red Heat (Review)

Red Heat is the perfect buddy-cop action film. The main driver behind every buddy-cop flick is the unlikeliness of the buddies. In Lethal Weapon (also pretty great) the difference is that that we have an old black conservative guy with … Continue reading

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Harry Brown (Review)

Harry Brown (the film not the guy), simultaneously manages to add itself to two lists. The first is films where a tragedy suffered by a normally non-violent individual is used to justify copious amounts of ultraviolence, the thought obviously being … Continue reading

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Thunderbolt (Review)

Jackie finally gets to make his dream movie, a 110 minute ad for Mitsubishi. There is a bad white guy named Cougar, a street racer and low life who is Jackie’s rival and wants him out of business. Jackie seems to … Continue reading

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Crime Story (Review)

This film is more “real” than any other Jackie Chan film all the way up to The Shinjuku Incident of last year. That’s not necessarily a good thing. Essentially a police procedural that tries to tackle the kidnapping problem faced … Continue reading

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 (Review)

Freddy was naughty (parents learned), He got caught (he then got burned) Now he hunts teens, in their dreams, ‘N kills them shorties, all in turn. Freddy is a serial killer who kills teens while they sleep by infiltrating their … Continue reading

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The Forsaken (Review)

There is always room for good, cheap MA films, a couple of scares, some violence, ideally a little nudity and a crappy soundtrack. The Forsaken is a prime example. Basically it is a movie about a good looking young bloke, … Continue reading

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Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (Review)

The original Armour of God flick was simply awesome, and given that the character is an adventurer of course it lent itself very well to a sequel. This time Asian Hawk is back, flanked by chicks of many nations in … Continue reading

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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (Review)

I got out (was released) from Date Night the film the other night and immediately went home to find a DVD to reinspire my love of comedy, one that I hadn’t seen for a while. And while Ford hasn’t exactly … Continue reading

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Wheels on Meals (Review)

This is an early Jackie classic, and sees him teaming up with buddies Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung, who also directs this flick. Jackie and Yuen are friends who run a small mobile food kiosk out of a van in … Continue reading

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