Okay, so what jerk-off film fan DIDN’T have a nerdgasm when they heard Criterion was going Blu-Ray? Raise your hand, because you have to turn in your elitist card NOW! But seriously, Criterion announcing Blu-Ray support was one of the best announcements so far for the format, and the initial line-up wasn’t too shabby [...]

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Remember the good old days of thrillers that took place on a train? It’s such a ripe setting to create suspense, as films like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express have proven. It seems like in modern times though, with so many people opting to travel [...]

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Another day, another oddity from Japan. This time, it comes in the form of trashy, low-budget mayhem under the title The Girls Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers. Well, at least that title wouldn’t have you think you were getting yourself into anything other than something off the wall. It’s how off the wall [...]

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If someone told Japanese author Futaro Yamada that his book The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, written in 1959, would become a multimedia explosion some 45 years later, I’m sure he wouldn’t have believed it. But that’s exactly what happened to the material, which is certainly ripe for the picking. A Romeo and Juliet style [...]

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The idea that your entire identity can be lost upon a horrible disfigurement to your face is nothing new to the world of cinema. Films such as Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face and Jess Franco’s The Awful Dr. Orloff have explored these themes before with varying degrees of success. These same themes [...]

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I’m sure some of you may already know that Ong Bak 2 is in the works, with the star of the original, Tony Jaa, pulling double duty as not only the star but also sitting in the directors chair. He’s been working on the film for a while, and it still isn’t done. Word [...]

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Our own MikeyB reported on Resident Evil: Degeneration a few weeks ago, and if you missed that post, it’s an all-new Resident Evil film done in full CGI that’s based on the storyline that was built in the game series. In other words, it means this might actually be good. Well, this past weekends [...]

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Note: This review is for the original Japanese version

I hold a special place in my heart for Japanese films involving giant monsters laying waste to entire cities. In my younger days, I used to look so forward to Saturday’s when some local station would usually play one of these films on the “Creature [...]

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So, can anyone tell me what in the hell that was?? I don’t pretend to know much about the source material, but the little I do know doesn’t indicate in the least that it’s as hyper-stylized as this Sin City-esque trailer. Nor did it ever seem like it was a “camp” comic book. It seemed [...]

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I’m a fan of Lucky McKee (although The Woods was a pretty bad mis-step), and I was pretty sad to hear last year when he was tossed off of directing Red, an adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s book of the same name, when the film was nearly finished. To be honest, I lost all interest [...]

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