Review: Pacific Rim
When talking about Pacific Rim you really have to start with expectations. Expectations for this particular film were all over the place. Those who ...
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NYAFF Review: Very Ordinary Couple
When most non-Koreans think of Korean films, they think of deeply disturbed violence and bleak, depressing dramas (I know I used to). What ...
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Review: Only God Forgives
Anyone who goes into Only God Forgives expecting Drive 2: Bangkok Drift is going to be disappointed. Drive was the unlikely combination of ...
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Japan Cuts Review: Hentai Kamen: Forbidden Super Hero
Hentai Kamen is a superhero movie about a guy who becomes an unstoppable force for perverse goodness whenever he wears a woman’s panties ...
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NYAFF Review: Secretly Greatly
Before the NYAFF screening of Secretly Greatly, director Jang Cheol-Soo (the man behind the oft-mentioned-by-me Bedevilled), came out and said a few words. ...
Review: Grown Ups 2
The original Grown Ups is easily one of the worst movies made in the past decade. It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t interesting. It wasn’t ...
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NYAFF Review: Lesson of the Evil
Takashi Miike, who makes at least a dozen films a year, has been off making Samurai films and videogame adaptations instead of the blood-drenched ...
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Flixist Discusses Review: V/H/S/2
V/H/S/2 comes out after 2012, which was a really impressive year for found footage films, so it has even more to prove than its ...
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Flixist Discusses Review: Double Xposure
Whenever News Editor Hubert Vigilla and I see a film together, we follow it up with a discussion about what we just saw, ...
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Review: Coffee Town
CollegeHumor has been one of the premiere comedy websites since practically the internet got super popular. Before YouTube, before Twitter, before Facebook, before ...
NYAFF Review: The Complex
Director Hideo Nakata is best known for 1998’s Ringu (The Ring), the film that kicked off a wave of international interest in J-horror at ...
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NYAFF Review: Hardcore Comedy
I’m willing to forgive occasional errors in subtitle translations. It’s a tedious job and mistakes happen, whatever. I see them, and it makes ...