Archive for December, 2003
The Princess Blade
Adapted from the manga comic book by director Shinsuke Sato, The Princess Blade is enjoyable and not a little similar to Tarantino’s Kill Bill in theme and basic plot. The time is roughly 500 years from now. Even though Japan is ruled once again by a monarchy, rebels opposed to this rule seek to overthrow [...]
Nobody
When three Hong Kong salarymen challenge four of their contemporaries at a bar one night, they find their lives turned upside-down as they must fight for their very lives. Directors Shundo and Toshimichi Ohkawa’s film Nobody depicts a landscape of disenfranchised, as fear and one-upmanship rule the world of three white collar workers. The contradiction [...]
The Goodbye Girl
Emmy award winner Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) plays Paula McFadden, a woman who has recently been dumped by her live-in boyfriend who just so happens to be the second actor in a row that she has fallen for. The boyfriend skips town one day and sublets the apartment without informing Paula. Later that night, [...]
Girl with a Pearl Earring
I generally regard it as a bad sign when the person sitting next to me at the cinema theater asks, “Have you read the book?!” So I sat down to watch Girl with a Pearl Earring with great apprehension; after all, adapting any popular novel is hard, but getting a screenplay out of a book [...]
Dead or Alive II: Birds
I was expecting to write a review that would simply disgustingly glorify the body of work of one of the most exciting and hardest working directors in the UNIVERSE, but something really frustrated me. I was going to mention how this guy makes something like a billion films a year and every single one of [...]
The Last Samurai
From the preview, I figured that since Tom Cruise was starring in a movie called The Last Samurai, it was a pretty good guess that he was going to be the last one standing. It was just a matter of seeing how we were going to get there. Maybe it should have been named Dances [...]
Vicious
Vicious is the new horror film written and directed by Matt Green. MTI Home Video is releasing it. Vicious stars Special FX legend and splatter king Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn) as Kane a former government operative turned modern day beast hunter. Joining Tom in Vicious are B-horror movie icon [...]
Bad Santa
Some people hate Christmas. Some people hate themselves. Some people hate life. Some people hate other people. And some people love drinking. Willie, as played by Billy Bob Thornton, is “some people” in Bad Santa. And it’s probably not for those other people. A total degenerate in every sense of the word, the titular Bad [...]
The Haunted Mansion
Walt Disney Studios continues its trip around Disneyland with the fourth movie based on a ride at the famous amusement park to come out since 1998.* Like the earlier 2003 release, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion is a story with the same name as the namesake ride that doesn’t have anything to do [...]
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