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Broken Arrow

Die Hard … in Utah?! Modern action movies have been compared to roller coaster rides, which is true in more ways than one. When you board a roller coaster, you pretty much know what to expect: you’ll be going up … Continue reading

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From Dusk Till Dawn

Another Kind of Pulp Fiction For the movies, the single most important individual of the ’90s is Quentin Tarantino. A few years ago, nobody had heard of him. But the success of the two features Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have … Continue reading

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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

Max Headroom Comes Home In 1975, the Stephen King short story “Lawnmower Man” was published. An exercise in surrealism, it concerned an enormously fat groundsman for hire, who would trim lawns by stripping naked, getting down on all fours, and … Continue reading

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Judge Dredd

Not the People’s Court This movie is based on a British comic-book that started before a lot of you were born, so I’m sick of hearing about how it’s so “derivative”. The concepts, look and character have influenced Road Warrior, Bladerunner, … Continue reading

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Heavenly Creatures

Bad Girls Guest review by Scott Petersen It’s not very often that a film put chills up and down my spine. That visceral feeling was all over Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, from Jack Nicholson’s chilling and psychotic performance to the … Continue reading

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