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Author’s Note: This film is available with both Spanish and English soundtracks. This review reflects the English dub. Earlier this year I reviewed...
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Author’s Note: This film is available with both Spanish and English soundtracks. This review reflects the English dub. Earlier this year I reviewed...
What is it about the New Korean Cinema of the 21st century that allowed it to breakthrough so spectacularly into the American popular...
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Despite being released in 1998, Blade is the transitional point for genre film in the 21st century. Before Blade, the action movie was the...
When I watched 2018’s Batman Ninja, I was pleasantly surprised to find that what seemed like tone deaf corporate synergy, was a loving homage...
“ …in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.” – Graham Greene, May We Borrow Your Husband?...
Constantine has undergone a strong fan reappraisal in recent years. When it was announced in 2005, the transposing of Alan Moore’s working class con-artist...