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I was lucky enough to catch Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang in the theater during its all-to-short run. I’ve been waiting impatiently for the DVD ever since! Watching the movie the first time really caught me off guard and it’s just as pleasantly surprising on the small screen at home. I originally got [...]

Being a horror buff, I’m familiar with the career of famed Italian horror director Dario Argento. Being a film buff, I’m also familiar with career of his daughter Asia Argento. You may remember her as playing the hot Euro chick opposite Vin Diesel in XXX. Her very first appearance in one of [...]

I couldn’t resist the temptation to see The Omen on the big 6/6/06 opening day. The previews I saw for this remake gave me the impression that they had simply re-shot the entire film scene for scene. I was intrigued. Would the contemporary actors and camera work make a popular, though dated, [...]

Final Grade: C+
I gathered three workmates and headed for the movie that everyone’s been talking about. Three of us had already read the book; one hadn’t but knew the general idea of the story. It’s hard not to when a movie gets this much press, good and bad. Because of all the [...]

Final Grade: D
Hot on the heels of incredible films like V for Vendetta, Lucky Number Slevin, and Hard Candy comes yet another revenge movie that’s, well, not so incredible. The worst part is that I was looking forward to a good thriller from the UK, but that was not the film that I [...]

Final Grade: C
Remaining hyped up on creepy, psychological horror from seeing Silent Hill a week ago, I was extremely intrigued by the plot of a little Independent movie titled Hard Candy. It was the uniqueness of the storyline that drew me to theater and it was the same unique storyline that kept [...]

Final Grade: B (A for Horror Fans)
I recall reading somewhere that Stephen King once classified two types of horror. The first type was mental or Psychological Horror featured in movies like Rosemary’s Baby or Jacob’s Ladder. The second type was the more physical, Gross-Out sort of horror used in 98% of the [...]

Final Grade: C
I believe some people expect entirely too much from some movies. A viewer should expect nothing from a movie and allow it a fair chance to show you what it’s all about. Otherwise, feel free to be pissed that The Exorcism of Emily Rose turned out to be a crime drama [...]

Final Grade: B
Less than an hour ago, I filed out the theater with a friend and the rest of the surprisingly large audience for Tsotsi. My friend and I walked in silence for a minute. Finally, I turned to him and simply said, “Wow.” His reply, “That was intense!” To say [...]