Tag Archives: USA

Review: Captain America: Civil War (USA 2016)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by David

Entertaining enough, for a lumbering behemoth that had to service over a dozen major characters and advance multiple plot threads.

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Review: Missing in Action (USA 1984)

Posted on April 9, 2017 by David

I like Joseph Zito, but this quickie Vietnam revenge actioner starring Chuck Norris that Cannon rushed out in time to beat Rambo: First Blood, Part II is a real stinker. The narrative is incredibly choppy, and the action scenes are … Continue reading →

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Review: Punk Vacation (USA 1990)

Posted on April 6, 2017 by David

This movie is profoundly confused.  The filmmakers basically took all the tropes of the 60s biker film (think The Wild Angels or The Glory Stompers), and moved them into the 1980s while substituting new wave punks for the traditional leather-clad … Continue reading →

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Review: Hell Comes to Frogtown (USA 1988)

Posted on April 1, 2017 by David

I watched this grotty little treat recently as a tribute to the late, great Rowdy Roddy Piper. Actually, I did see about half of this on late night HBO as a misguided teen, but pretty much forgot everything.

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Q&A: The Blackcoat’s Daughter with Oz Perkins, Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton

Posted on March 30, 2017 by David

Last Thursday, March 23, the new Alamo Drafthouse NYC in Brooklyn hosted a special screening of the well-received first film by Osgood Perkins, The Blackcoat’s Daughter.  The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a psychological horror film set in a girls’ boarding school … Continue reading →

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Review: Phantasm: Ravager (USA 2016)

Posted on March 27, 2017 by David

It breaks my heart to have to give this film a bad review. I love the Phantasm film series. The first one is a freaky trip, and the second one is a campy, action-packed blast – and both do an … Continue reading →

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Review: Hacksaw Ridge (USA 2016)

Posted on March 23, 2017 by David

If this steaming pile of garbage could get nominated for Best Picture, I guess that is definitive proof that Mel “Sugar Tits” Gibson has been forgiven by the Hollywood community. Hacksaw Ridge commits the worst sin of war movies – … Continue reading →

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Review: Death Race 2050 (USA 2017)

Posted on March 21, 2017 by David

Well, that was more entertaining than I expected. Don’t get me wrong, this remake of the Roger Corman/Paul Bartel 1975 trash classic Death Race 2000 is total garbage, mostly stupid and low budget as hell. But compared to the other … Continue reading →

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Review: Arrival (USA 2016)

Posted on March 11, 2017 by David

This big budget, somewhat highbrow science-fiction picture ultimately glossed over potentially interesting scientific and technical material in favor of an emotional angle on the material, and also forced me to watch the pile of anti-charisma that is Jeremy Renner.

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Review: Suicide Squad (USA 2016)

Posted on March 1, 2017 by David

Based on the critical reaction, I went to this with very low expectations, and the film lived down to every single one. The first third of the film is a series of progressively less interesting introductions, the overarching plot is … Continue reading →

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