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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Reading subtitles Director Ang Lee returns to China for the first time since 1994’s Eat Drink Man Woman, but this time he’s surprised everyone. Though this film has the same concern for traditions and the delicate interplay of subtle emotions … Continue reading

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The Gift

D’oh! Raimi! A lot of folks hadn’t heard of Sam Raimi before he directed A Simple Plan, but of course he already had quite a following. There’s a huge cult of Raimi fans, which has grown in number since his … Continue reading

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Dracula 2000

From Calvary to Carfax Dimension Pictures has been getting ribbed in the press for releasing Dracula 2000 so late in the year (just in time for Christmas), but this ink no doubt comes from folks that haven’t actually seen the … Continue reading

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Dungeons & Dragons

A game try Guest Review by Steve Sullivan In the interest of full disclosure, let me say I’ve been working on Dungeons & Dragons related products for over 20 years. I was hired onto TSR’s staff in 1980 and worked … Continue reading

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes DVD

Beverly Hills chimps With the world apparently destroyed at the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Oops! Um… spoiler!), no one thought it likely that there would be another sequel. The box office tally, however, disagreed with them. The … Continue reading

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The real Grinch who stole Christmas Guest Review by Mike Flores The works of the late great Theodor Seuss Geisel translate well to animation. From the 1940s and 1950s cartoons, and the original The Grinch Who Stole Christmas with the … Continue reading

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Horrors of Spider Island DVD

Eight babes versus eight armed horror In 1960, sexuality had only begun to become more explicit on U.S. screens in imported art films, or cloaked in the nervous laughter of nudie-cutie pictures shown in downtown grindhouses. Horror films were still … Continue reading

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Charlie’s Angels

Fox Force 3 Not long ago, the TVLand channel ran a ten day marathon, showing all 109 episodes of the fluffy 1970s series Charlie’s Angels at least once – two or three times if bikinis were involved. I didn’t think … Continue reading

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Legend of the Chupacabra DVD

That sucking sound you hear… Well, it may not be the renaissance of the genre, but at least it’s something different. Here we have yet another “found footage” horror film, in which a group of intrepid youngsters treks into the … Continue reading

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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Cameras don’t lie Or DO they??? That’s the question addressed by this sequel to the surprise hit of 1999, the most successful independent feature ever made. I consider Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’ The Blair Witch Project to be a … Continue reading

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