Category Archives: Review

Last Man Standing

Last Remake You Can Stand Walter Hill tries his hand at Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (itself based on Hammett’s Red Harvest), with Bruce Willis playing a prohibition era American samurai.






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Maximum Risk

Minimum Wage Better than average Jean-Claude Van Damme action fare, enlivened greatly by the veteran hand of director Ringo Lam (Full Contact) and location shooting in France and New York.






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Killer: A Journal of Murder

Public Enemy Number 1 In the ‘20s, Leavenworth guard Henry Lesser (Robert Sean Leonard) befriended prisoner Carl Panzram (James Woods), who’d broken “every law known to God and man”. Lesser risked his job to allow Panzram to write down his … Continue reading






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The Crow: City of Angels

Tar & Feathers Why this unnecessary sequel is set in LA beats me. This poor retread looks the same as Detroit did in the great original. Good perfs by punk vets Iggy Pop and Ian Dury, but otherwise there’s really … Continue reading






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The Island of Dr. Moreau

Theater of Pain Why remake Island of Lost Souls, one of the most chilling horror classics of the ‘30s, which has already been remade at least twice? Two possibilities: public domain source material and modern creature f/x.






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Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood

House of the Setting Sun Will somebody tell this Whoopi Goldburg how to pick a script? Her summer basketball comedy Eddie turned out to be an airball, while the expensive Theodore Rex was relegated to a vid release. I haven’t … Continue reading






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Escape from L.A.

Pure Escapism Bet you thought Snake Plisken was dead? Well he’s back – and so are Kurt Russell, producer Debra Hill, and director John Carpenter, who all concocted the plot for this nutty flick.






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Chain Reaction

A Big Bomb Chicago residents who were disappointed that our city was destroyed off-screen in Independence Day can find some consolation in this new Andrew Davis thriller, in which a big chunk of the south side is flattened by an … Continue reading






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The Adventures of Pinocchio

Got Wood? This version of Collodi’s story from director Steve Barron has a peculiarly European flavor. It sticks closer to the book than Disney, while throwing in odd ideas. None of the characters are surprised that the puppet’s come to … Continue reading






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Joe’s Apartment

Jammin’ at Joe’s MTV breaks into features with this bigscreen expansion of John Payson’s short. Jerry O’Connell plays sweet-faced hick Joe, seeking his fortune in the Big City, only to get beat up by hard knocks exaggerated to a ridiculous … Continue reading






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