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Tags: action
Van Helsing is the first major entry into the summer action movie race and a worthy adversary for the Trojans and superheroes to come. The film is an old time atmospheric monster movie and resembles one of the monster mash movies of the 1940s like Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman. Imagine giving those B-film directors a [Read More …] 
Once again Quentin Tarantino delivers a killer cool over the top film that impresses. In Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Tarantino’s fourth film he shows us why he has had such an impact on film with s o few movies. Here he is distilling the spirit, and many of the major plot elements of many of [Read More …] 
Hellboy was a bit of a disappointment. Perhaps with the summer blockbuster season soon approaching I was expecting too much. Plus there was the entire buzz about how this was such a good movie. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t a bad movie, I just didn’t love it. The premise reminded me of X-Men. A [Read More …] 
Azumi is exactly what I would expect seeing in a Japanese action movie. Though it was billed as an action opera, I’m not sure I see the operatic in this film. Kitamura presents a stylized swordplay film complete with quirky characters, strange humor, and lots and lots of gore. There were some unnecessarily artistic elements [Read More …] 
There are many science fiction movies that require you to check reality at the door and buy into the truths that it presents. This proposes a difficulty especially for films that branch from our reality in only a small way. Often times a small step is just as difficult, if not more difficult, as a [Read More …] |
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