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Tag Archives: Action
Will this ever end?
As my friend Curtis and I both despised what J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and their team did to Star Trek with their “re-boot” (more like a boot to the original’s crotch) in 2009, it would be fair to ask why … Continue reading
DVD Review: Death Race 3: Inferno
Death Race 3: Inferno, director Roel Reine’s follow-up to his Death Race 2, itself a prequel to Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race (2008), picks up where the previous movie ended and ends where the original begins. Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) … Continue reading
Out of sync yet again …
The critical consensus seems to be that Skyfall is the greatest James Bond movie ever. So, naturally, I had such major problems with it that it left me feeling irritated, despite having sat through all 22 of the previous movies … Continue reading
Pure Genre Pleasure: The Man With the Iron Fists
In film, the big difference between pastiche and homage is the underlying attitude towards an original source. Pastiche – often a lazy assemblage of genre elements – is aimed at mocking something the filmmaker feels superior to (like the recent … Continue reading
Summer Viewing
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I’m not sure what I should blame it on – the enervating effects of a long hot summer, the stresses of finishing my documentary, financial worries, early onset dementia – but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to drag myself out … Continue reading
DVD of the week: War of the Arrows
In 17th Century Korea, two young children, a brother and sister, see their father killed and barely escape with their own lives. They seek shelter with the family of one of their father’s friends and grow up as outcasts, their … Continue reading
Recent viewing – theatrical
I actually got out to see three movies in the theatre in January. Surprisingly, I liked all of them. Haywire (2011) by Steven Soderbergh Over the years, I’ve found Steven Soderbergh’s work to be very hit-and-miss. When he’s good (from … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Actors, Comedy, Directors, Review, Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh, Thrillers, Tomas Alfredson
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DVD diary: September – part two
Dark Of The Sun (1968) The great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, responsible for the dazzling imagery of Michael Powell’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), and Albert Lewin’s Pandora and the Flying … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Animation, British Film, Comedy, Directors, Documentary, Horror, Mexican Film, Review
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Raro Video and Italian genre cinema
In the short history of DVD, many companies have come and gone. The major distributors are still around, of course, and public domain companies like Mill Creek seem to be surviving despite the generally poor quality of their output. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Actors, Directors, Italian Film, Thrillers, Violence
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DVD of the week: Shopping (1994)
In my rather long film-going life, I have often been out of sync with generally held opinions. I didn’t much like the Star Wars movies when they transformed popular culture, I found myself laughing at Titanic while surrounded in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Actors, Blu-Ray, British Film, Directors, DVD, Paul W .S. Anderson, Science Fiction
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