From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
Well ever since Scream 3 I have been trying to see bad sequels to movies I haven’t seen in the first place. And this one holds a particular specialness to me because it is a part 3 and I am a scholar...
View ArticleKill Bill: Vol. 2
(another unused one for the ain’t it cool news.) Harry and associates, I am writing to inform you of an exciting new picture called KILL BILL VOLUME 2. Please forgive me if you already know about this...
View ArticleDeath Wish V: The Face of Death
This one finishes off the series, it’s a goodbye to Paul Kersey and to Charles Bronson for those who aren’t gonna watch the three FAMILY OF COPS movies (the only thing he made after this). I’ve read...
View ArticleSmokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball
SMOKIN’ ACES 2: ASSASSIN’S BALL is the rare DTV sequel that leaves 2 (two) obvious openings for porn parody titles, not to mention having the word “ass” in it twice. In that sense it is absolutely...
View ArticleRed State
RED STATE is ex-movie director Kevin Smith’s long-threatened version of a horror movie, supposedly his last movie except for an epic 2-part Seann William Scott hockey comedy based on a Warren Zevon...
View ArticleArgo
ARGO is based on an amazing true story, recently declassified and told in this great Wired article. During the Iran hostage crisis, it turns out, the CIA managed to rescue a group of stranded American...
View ArticleTusk
I don’t know how it happened but somehow I became the guy that’s more lenient on Kevin Smith movies than everybody else. Back in his hey day when he was a Miramax family member, an indie movement...
View ArticleThe Return of Josey Wales
“He’s crazy. He’d charge Hell with a bucket of water.” 10 years after Clint took his acting/directing to new heights with THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, the less known character actor Michael Parks (DEATH...
View ArticleBlood Father
BLOOD FATHER is the kind of simple story that I like. Ex-con, now-sober John Link (Mel Gibson, GET THE GRINGO) tries to help his long-missing daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty, THE KINGS OF SUMMER) get...
View ArticleWe Are What We Are (American remake)
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (2013), like THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, uses cannibalism as a stand-in for any unfortunate family traditions that are passed down through the generations long past their shelf...
View ArticleGrindhouse
PLANET TERROR and DEATH PROOF PREAMBLE Here in the US these two movies were designed and released as a double feature with trailers for fictional movies in between. They were released under one...
View ArticleThe Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
I saw KILLING THEM SOFTLY today and I’m working on the review right now, and that made me realize that when I finally caught up with the director’s previous movie earlier in the year I didn’t ever post...
View ArticleDjango Unchained
A couple weeks ago the studio “lifted the embargo” as they say, and all the online critics unchained their DJANGO reviews even though non-critics wouldn’t see the thing until Christmas. I think that’s...
View ArticleFrom Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
Well ever since Scream 3 I have been trying to see bad sequels to movies I haven’t seen in the first place. And this one holds a particular specialness to me because it is a part 3 and I am a scholar...
View ArticleKill Bill: Vol. 2
(another unused one for the ain’t it cool news.) Harry and associates, I am writing to inform you of an exciting new picture called KILL BILL VOLUME 2. Please forgive me if you already know about this...
View ArticleGrindhouse
PLANET TERROR and DEATH PROOF PREAMBLE Here in the US these two movies were designed and released as a double feature with trailers for fictional movies in between. They were released under one...
View ArticleDeath Wish V: The Face of Death
This one finishes off the series, it’s a goodbye to Paul Kersey and to Charles Bronson for those who aren’t gonna watch the three FAMILY OF COPS movies (the only thing he made after this). I’ve read...
View ArticleSmokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball
SMOKIN’ ACES 2: ASSASSIN’S BALL is the rare DTV sequel that leaves 2 (two) obvious openings for porn parody titles, not to mention having the word “ass” in it twice. In that sense it is absolutely...
View ArticleRed State
RED STATE is ex-movie director Kevin Smith’s long-threatened version of a horror movie, supposedly his last movie except for an epic 2-part Seann William Scott hockey comedy based on a Warren Zevon...
View ArticleThe Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
I saw KILLING THEM SOFTLY today and I’m working on the review right now, and that made me realize that when I finally caught up with the director’s previous movie earlier in the year I didn’t ever post...
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