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We are nothing, if not honest.
Asian Cinema
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Blue Spring (2001) Yet another Japanese drama about shoe-gazing, waifish, bad-asses in high school. |
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Dead or Alive (1999) More shocking Yakuza bloodletting from the director of Fudoh! |
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Evil
Dead's Trap (1988) Ultra-stylish and gory Japanese giallo. Required horror viewing. |
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Fallen Angels (1995) Another of Wong Kar-Wai's seminal crime dramas. |
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First Option (1996) Michael "Fitzgerald" Wong: Chinese or American? Who cares? |
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For
Y'ur Height Only (1979) Midget James Bond kicks butt and gets the chicks! |
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Full Metal Yakuza (1997) The rampant silliness of Takashi Miike's RoboThug. |
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Godzilla: A Demon Reborn (19XX) An article on the "new" Godzilla movies. (originally appeared in Video Junkie Magazine in 1996) |
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Hard-Core Hong Kong (19XX) An over-view of the Cat-a-gory III nasties of the '90s! (originally appeared in Video Junkie Magazine in 1996) |
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Hitman (1998) Jet Li is Rainman in the HK Triads! |
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Hunting List (1992) Ultra-violent Triad action that definitely earns that Category III rating! |
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The Legend of Zu
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Mothra 3 (1999) The little singing Motsura girls are wearing out their welcome. |
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Nowhere to Hide (1999) A virtual sensory overload of uber-stylized crime cinema from Korea! |
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Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997) Jet Li returns and is ripped off by Shanghai Noon years later. |
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969) The master of all that is HK cinema, Jimmy Wang Yu, returns to massacre all who stand before him. |
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Sabu (2002) Takashi Miike tries his hand at the jidaigeki genre and comes up with a fistful of air. |
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Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) Still more Takashi Miike gangster stuff! The first of the Black Triad series. |
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The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) The legendary Shintaro Katsu teams up with the legendary Kenji Misumi to create the first of the legendary Zatoichi blind swordsman films. |
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Walk In (1997) HK crime with Danny Lee - who does not play a cop in this one! |
European Cinema
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Aftermath (1994) Slick, yet brutal Spanish necrophilia rotgut from Nacho Cerda. |
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Clive
Barker's Salome and The Forbidden (19XX) Clive and company show off their penchant for art films and... male anatomy. |
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Hammer 1970 A,D. (19XX) A massive retrospect of the glory that is Hammer Horror in the '70s! |
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Hitcher in the Dark (1989) Umberto Lenzi's Winnebago nightmare with Josie Bissette! |
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Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy (1990) Emanuelle Kervyn... Why? For the love of God, why? |
North American Cinema
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The Devil's Rain (1975) Quite possibly the coolest movie about Satan ever. |
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Hard Target: Director's
Cut (1992) The brutality! The carnage! The savagery! And that was just in the editing room! (originally appeared in Video Junkie Magazine in 1996) |
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The Night Gallery / The Munsters (1969-73 / 1964) Universal brings the first seasons of two revered semi-horror themed TV shows to DVD. Is it a true blessing or a burnt offering? |
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Nightmare at Noon (1988) Niko Mastorakis' under-appreciated sci-fi/action/horror outing with an amazing B-movie cast! |
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The Prophecy II (1998) Christopher Walken hams it up. And what is with that hair, anyway? |
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Return to the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994) A sequel so bad, that it actually may be one of the worst films ever made. (originally appeared in Video Junkie Magazine in 1996) |
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Samurai Cop (1989) Probably the worst film ever to have "cop" as the second word in the title, and yet, it's also the best! |
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Search and Destroy (1979) Perry King and Don Stroud kick mucho post-'Nam ass! |
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) Chilling gothic horror version of the fairy tale. |
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The Wind (1987) Niko Mastorakis delivers a stylish giallo with a sweaty, unhinged Wings Hauser in the lead. |