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Juan of the Dead (2012)

Juan of the Dead (2012)
There will be very few who will deny Cuban Zombie flick Juan of the Dead a day or two of  basking in the limelight. It’s not that the film is remarkable by Zombie standards or even as a social satire or even as a straight out comedy, it’s just that at its heart it’s a [...]
May 4th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Safe (2012)

Safe (2012)
Writer Director Boaz Yakin takes  billion dollar franchise action hero Jason Statham, to Downtown New York for a furious street fight with the Russian Mob, Asian Triads and some crooked cops in Safe. Fans of the former championship diver and model should be delighted with his excessively pumped physique...
May 4th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

American Pie: Reunion (2012)

American Pie: Reunion (2012)
American Pie: Reunion or American Pie 4 or more precisely WHY? is a well meaning and good natured sex comedy where everyone is nice, White, Suburban and of course American, and they all come off satisfied. Sexually and otherwise. Which also makes this film utterly bland like white bread. Reason being...
May 2nd, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Jonah Hex (2010)

Jonah Hex (2010)
Quickly slated and dismissed by the majority of moviegoers when it was released, Jonah Hex turns out to be a surprisingly enjoyable movie based around a lesser-known comic book character. Mixing some supernatural elements (e.g. the central character can talk to the dead whenever he takes hold of them)...
May 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)

Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
The second and final part of this live action franchise is just as well-produced and satisfying as the first part (see review here). Its plot, however, is rather more complex. Instead of the weirder aliens, our game contestants are now fighting a tougher enemy, namely the human-disguised versions known...
May 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Gantz (2010)

Gantz (2010)
It is being called the Japanese Harry Potter, and it is based on a best-selling sci-fi manga comic and a subsequent long anime TV show. But here we have the story in glorious live action. Weird aliens, black latex, wild action, interpersonal drama, fighting for dear life; Matrix-inspired spectacle and...
May 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Postcards from the Zoo (2012)

Postcards from the Zoo (2012)
There is a Danish term that I have never really found a satisfactory English word for: pudseløjerlig. It means “funny-odd” or “cutesy-strange”. I like to use it to describe things that obviously want to be a little weird, a little edgy and strange, but really are just cutesy and harmless; silly...
May 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Raid: Redemption (2011)

The Raid: Redemption (2011)
Martial arts movies have been wildly popular in Southeast Asia for decades. First there were the early Shaw Brothers adventures in the ‘50s and ‘60, then came Bruce Lee and his fists of fury, making the genre ten times as big and exporting it to Western audiences, and then, in the ‘80s, Jackie...
April 30th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
As soon as this remake of the popular Swedish movie was announced you could hear the hissing of dissent, the sharpening of knives and the flicking of thesaurus pages as people tried to find new words to construct old and familiar complaints. Yet there was also something different about this one, something...
April 30th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Angèle and Tony (2011)

Angèle and Tony (2011)
I imagine this is the French equivalent of one of Mike Leigh’s gloomy British kitchen sink dramas. Holding, as I do, an unfashionable aversion to Mike Leigh’s films, this might have made for a trying evening, but the continental insouciance of all concerned alleviated the gloom quite nicely...
April 30th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
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