WATCH NOW Now that the multi-venue ImagineAsia festival has started and the Satyajit Ray retrospective has opened at London’s National Film Theatre, this week promises to have loads of South Asian movies and this film, by first feature director Asif Kapadia, is an excellent way to make use of the moment. The Warrior is the […]
WATCH NOW As I embark again in the realm of “Bruceploitation,” I grapple with this somewhat thorny question. In which of Bruce Lee’s films can we confidently say were produced well in the traditional sense? More often than not, we are left with rather mediocre productions after removing his charisma as well as his mind-blowing
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WATCH NOW This is not at all in the spirit of Roger Corman’s creature features or the equally “so bad, they’re good” features from Asylum or SyFy. Contrary to the title Killer Bees, the film focuses far too much on the romance between the sheriff, his wife, and Riley the bee specialist, which really misses
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WATCH NOW In the cinematic world, there is a little niche genre that focuses on a prisoner who, for some reason, seems to join a wildfire service and ends up having to fight the fire. Wildfire 7 puts this tale into a made for television script and, of course, adds a bit of extra juicy
WATCH NOW It is one thing to mix a ‘direct-to-video’ version of The Thing (1982), and, oh, well this well, happens when your name is also John this requires a set of stones that outsize your everyday shrinkage, a classical colliery band. Fortunately, John Carl Buechler managed to almost succeed. Despite the fact that DEEP
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WATCH NOW First of all, I ask for your patience. Please forgive me, as I may sound repetitive to some, but sometimes such repetition is in everyone’s best interest. Is there any DVD company other than Hong Kong Legends that has the rights to martial arts movies? If so, please kindly hand over the rights
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WATCH NOW ‘His time is past, there are no more,’ warbled Nancy Wilson in her theme song available here. ‘Oh, he is the last din-o-saur!’ This is a Rankin-Bass production who, along with the Japanese Toho Godzilla effects house, specialized in children’s television entertainment. The production team from the United States and Japan, directed by
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WATCH NOW The very creatures that benefit from our attention and are worthy of admiration, sharks, stand out of the very same food chain matrix of the oceanic ecosystem that has captured our attention to begin with. No, that’s not where we plan-headed towards. Instead, we choose to take a step back and look at
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WATCH NOW The movie isn’t great, but it’s okay. There’s the terrifying boogeyman who looks like a Batman villain and has a voice that resembles a combination of the candyman and Freddy Kruger. He wears different gnarly masks and torments teenagers by turning their fears into a reality such as slashing their throats with a
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WATCH NOW With the help of the unique Russian enclave in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, these two unlikely detectives breathe new life into the construction of the film, “Taxman.” It has grown into a charmingly odd mystery movie that has the viewer wishing for more. Alongside Roger Berger, who has a background in tax investigation, Avi
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