Monthly Archives: June 2010

2012 (Review)

Posted on June 29, 2010 by OGR

  2012 shits me. Not because it is terrible or hackneyed or lazy, but because it is none of those things. It is actually pretty effective. Annoyingly so. I watched Independence Day in the cinema and thought it sucked, even … Continue reading →

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Gorgeous (Review)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by OGR

One thing I noticed more and more as I waded through the last dozen or so Jackie films is that through the dubbos his English language films got shorter and shorter (a good thing as most of them suck), and … Continue reading →

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Planet Terror (Grindhouse) (Review)

Posted on June 26, 2010 by OGR

No-one was more excited than me when Tarantino and Rodriguez announced they would double-bill a pair of B movies simultaneously. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when Tarantino decided that making the film “look scratchy” and whacking a couple of old … Continue reading →

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New Police Story (Police Story 4) (Review)

Posted on June 25, 2010 by OGR

Thanks to some young, annoyingly “hip” criminals who rob banks, wait for the cops and then shoot the cops, Jackie has become a drunken piss-head has-been Supercop. This is because the troubled rich and privileged kids laid a trap for … Continue reading →

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The A Team 2010 (Review)

Posted on June 24, 2010 by OGR

The actual film is almost as photoshopped. Most films that are released get a few ads in the week or two coming up to the release date, in the papers and on TV. The bigger ones get combined with various … Continue reading →

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Idlewild (Review)

Posted on June 22, 2010 by OGR

I’ll give you a sneak peek at my “process”, (such as it is). About twice a week I grab my scrawled bullet point notes and spend 30 or 40 minutes nutting out two or three reviews, nothing too complicated or … Continue reading →

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Nico: Above the Law (Review)

Posted on June 21, 2010 by OGR

In honour of the recent news regarding one Mr Steven Seagal’s employee hiring policy, I decided to revisit one of his best. Admittedly he only has a few real good ones. Stevie is Nico, a half bald, half mulletted pre-ponytail … Continue reading →

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Dragons Forever (Review)

Posted on June 19, 2010 by OGR

Another one of Jackie’s finest. Jackie is a lawyer and it must be said a bit of a playboy. Sammo is one of his buddies and Yuen Biao is another buddy, although one prone to insanity. Initially Jackie is defending … Continue reading →

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Iron Man 2 (Review)

Posted on June 18, 2010 by OGR

The beauty of the original film was that at focused on the origins of the character, a side-benefit of that was the fact that it had Robert Downey Jr in the lead as the charismatic billionaire playboy Tony Stark. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Danny the Dog – AKA Unleashed (Review)

Posted on June 17, 2010 by OGR

I don’t know if it is the confusion with the title (this isn’t a K9 or Turner & Hooch clone folks) or the fear that it is one of those films “that I durn got-ta read on the screen”, but … Continue reading →

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