Movie Reviews by Siskoid
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Movie reviews straight off my Letterboxd account. Hope this draws you to some cool ones!
My β β β β Β½ review of Chungking Express (1994)
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A β β β β Β½ review of Chungking Express (1994)
Not so much a movie as two movies, with common locations and themes, but no intersecting plots. Both feature lovelorn cops and Wong Kar-Wai's lyricism and poetry. In the first, a cop obsessed with thi...
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My β β β β review of The Chumscrubber (2005)
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A β β β β review of The Chumscrubber (2005)
The Chumscrubber is a very dark comedy about a Los Angeles suburb rocked by the suicide of a teenager. Though the protagonist is a teen himself, the dead boy's best friend, and there's a teen cast tha...
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1 day ago
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My β β β β review of Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)
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A β β β β review of Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)
Chuck Norris vs. Communism is a Romanian documentary about how underground video tapes of American movies in the 80s might have helped bring down CeauΘescu's isolationist regime. Through commentary by...
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2 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
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A β β β Β½ review of The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
The Chronicles of Riddick sacrifices the first Riddick film's tension for scope, making this entry in the franchise closer to a sword & sorcery epic than a monster-driven thriller. Riddick's ambiguity...
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3 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
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A β β β Β½ review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the 2000s are going to be known for their impossibly long movie titles, aren't they?) is the third and final Narnia adaptation to make it to t...
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4 days ago
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My β β β review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
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A β β β review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
In this one, the four kids return to Narnia (via the Shazam train), but it's centuries later and the magical realm has fallen to the world of Men. Now, they must bring the magic back with the help of ...
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5 days ago
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Movies I watched so long ago, I never reviewed them
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6 days ago
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My β β β β review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
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A β β β β review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
If I'd listened to my Lord of the Rings-fervent friends when this came out, I never would have seen it, but I'm glad I did. It's not a perfect film, by any means, but it rewards repeat viewings. Simil...
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6 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Chronicle (2012)
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A β β β Β½ review of Chronicle (2012)
A "found footage"-style movie, this one a superhero story. Thoroughly enjoyed it. They're getting really good at figuring out how to put cameras into scenes so the film can be "made", and where Blair ...
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7 days ago
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My β β β β review of Chronesthesia (2016)
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A β β β β review of Chronesthesia (2016)
An indie film from New Zealand, Chronesthesia (also distributed as Love and Time Travel) was written, directed, and edited by Hayden J. Weal, who plays the lead in the film, a guy who starts getting m...
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8 days ago
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My β β β β Β½ review of Christopher Robin (2018)
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A β β β β Β½ review of Christopher Robin (2018)
If you don't tear up through 50-75% of Christopher Robin, you may be a Woozle. Made, I suspect, more for adults who saw/read/loved Winnie the Pooh as kids, than for their children (I'll come back to t...
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9 days ago
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My β β β review of Christo's Valley Curtain (1974)
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A β β β review of Christo's Valley Curtain (1974)
What I'm missing from Christoβs Valley Curtain is the artist (or someone!) discussing the artistic approach. The doc feels thin to me despite it making a point just through blue-collar reaction before...
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9 days ago
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My β β review of The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966)
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A β β review of The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966)
What if Scrooge was Santa's landlord? The Christmas That Almost Wasn't dares answer with a a silly whimsical adventure starring Santa and his lawyer (it's dumb, but probably my favorite episode of MST...
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10 days ago
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10 days ago
SBG/The Man From UNCLE #5: The Deadly Games Affair
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UNCLE and THRUSH compete to hunt a Nazi scientist primed to trigger a new Reich.
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The Man From UNCLE #5: The Deadly Games Affair
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11 days ago
SBG/This Week in Geek: The Drama, Date Nigh, Early Spring, The Devil's Eye, Lancelot du Lac, Disclosure, The International, A Shock to the System, Azor, The Client, The Art of Self-Defense, Frownland, Brief Encounter, The Stranger, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
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My β β β review of Christmas on Mars (2008)
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A β β β review of Christmas on Mars (2008)
The Flaming Lips' art film is difficult to get into on account of the cheap-ass production design and the use of mostly non-actors, but it's still a trippy experience. Based on a movie director Wayne ...
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11 days ago
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My β β β review of Azor (2021)
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A β β β review of Azor (2021)
While I'm usually into procedural films, Andreas Fontana's Azor is at too far a remove for me to like it as much as I wanted to. I'm not a world banker, and I'm not too cognizant of what was happening...
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12 days ago
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My β β β β review of The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
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A β β β β review of The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
I didn't realize comedy could be as dry as it is in The Art of Self-Defense, but I'm parched. An amazing take-down of the Manosphere, it has Jesse Eisenberg join a dodgy dojo after getting mugged, but finds there's a big difference between taking back control after a violent trauma, and the kind of cultish hypermasculinity preached by Alessandro Nivola's sinister sensei. Imogen Poots is the one woman living in this toxic masculine world. Everyone speaks in a deadly deadpan and states the obvious as a matter of course, probably part of the satire - let's just say I don't
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12 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
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12 days ago
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The last Dick Tracy movie for decades. A banking conspiracy. Clickety-clickety-clack. Ozu's wage slave epic.
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13 days ago
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My β β β review of Christmas Evil (1980)
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A β β β review of Christmas Evil (1980)
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus and now I've got a really toxic relationship with Christmas, or You Better Watch Out (AKA Christmas Evil), in which a man sees himself as Santa - works in a toyshop, keeps tabs on the good and bad boys and girls of the neighborhood... So what happens when his transformation is complete? Will he be a benign, gift-giving saint? Or a dangerous slasher? A bit of both is the answer, but once the mechanics of the choice are engaged, things feel more predictable. Still ends on a poetic moment though, so there's something to
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13 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)
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A β β β Β½ review of Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)
For a movie that makes you feel like you're at one of your own large family Christmas parties, check out Christmas Eve at Miller's Point. It rings as true as jingling bells. It's more about moments than it is about a linear plot, with a large cast and various open-ended storylines, a kind of moving photo album that captures the multi-generational family members where they're at, briefly touching on their personal tragedies, or showcasing their very specific traditions. And while the adults let loose and the smaller kids are sent to bed, the teenagers go off the reservation into their
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14 days ago
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My β β β review of The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)
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A β β β review of The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)
The second Christmas Chronicles offers more of what the first film did - a sexy Kurt Russell Santa Claus, a random musical number, Troll-ish CG elves, and on-the-nose lessons about the spirit of Chris...
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15 days ago
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My β β β review of The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
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A β β β review of The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
The only real reason to watch The Christmas Chronicles is to see Kurt Russell play Santa Claus. And he's a good one! Otherwise, this story of kids getting the jump on St. Nick and almost accidentally ...
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16 days ago
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My β β Β½ review of A Christmas Carol (1938)
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A β β Β½ review of A Christmas Carol (1938)
MGM's 1938 production of A Christmas Carol feels so simplified as to seem cartoonish at times, yet still finds time to invent new scenes, mostly of Christmas cheer, like people playing in the snow, or...
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17 days ago
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My β β β β review of A Christmas Carol (1984)
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A β β β β review of A Christmas Carol (1984)
1984's A Christmas Carol is perhaps the best adaptation of Dickens' classic since 1951's Scrooge, even if it was made for television. It certainly restores a lot of scenes that are missing in more cur...
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17 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Christine (2016)
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A β β β Β½ review of Christine (2016)
Based on true events, Christine tells the story of 70s television journalist Christine Chubbuck whose tragic story I didn't know at the onset. While the events of the film do lead us to a logical end,...
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19 days ago
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20 days ago
SBG/After Lunch Podcast: Large Spaceships Sweet 16
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I was invited onto a big spaceship bracket episode!
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After Lunch Podcast: Large Spaceships Sweet 16
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An early April - late December romance. A Satanic Sequel. Gangster time machine. Not Chaucer.
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20 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Christine (1983)
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A β β β Β½ review of Christine (1983)
I've seen John Carpenter's work-for-hire Stephen King adaptation, Christine, many times, and that's because it's not so gory or creepy that it couldn't easily be run on television. Coming off The Thin...
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20 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker (1999)
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A β β β Β½ review of Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker (1999)
Earworm.
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21 days ago
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My β β β β review of Chopping Mall (1986)
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A β β β β review of Chopping Mall (1986)
Already about killer security robots in the mall from Commando, I knew Chopping Mall was REALLY something special when Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov gratuitously appeared as their characters from Eatin...
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22 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Chongqing Hot Pot (2016)
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A β β β Β½ review of Chongqing Hot Pot (2016)
Starting with the fun premise of an accidental heist, Chongqing Hot Pot doesn't really know what it is or what it has, given how the twists aren't just in the plot, but in the genre and tone as well. ...
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23 days ago
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23 days ago
SBG/Action Film Face-Off: Contract Killer vs. Lady Reporter
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March-al Arts Madness means I had to be invited on the Longbox Crusade again
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My β β β β review of A Canterbury Tale (1944)
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A β β β β review of A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Though it pays lip service to Chaucer's classic (indeed, might even make you think it was an adaptation at first), its "pilgrims" are contemporary to 1944, which is to say, part of the influx of peopl...
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24 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Choke (2008)
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A β β β Β½ review of Choke (2008)
The Chuck Palahniuk novel that became a Sam Rockwell movie. I had a couple problems with it, though mostly because I'd read the book. For one, while there are notable differences, it was just too much...
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24 days ago
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25 days ago
SBG/Reviewed: Project Hail Mary, The Studio S1, RATS!, Mistress Dispeller, Secret Mall Apartment, Hot Shots!, How to Shoot a Ghost, Joan of Arc, The Rules of the Game, My Favorite Wife, 49th Parallel, The Murderer Lives at Number 21, books...
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My β β β β review of The Chocolate War (1988)
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A β β β β review of The Chocolate War (1988)
Early in The Chocolate War, a teacher rather gauchely stages a social experiment in which his classroom becomes, through blind obedience to his authority, Nazi Germany. And that's basically what the f...
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25 days ago
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My β β β β review of Chocolate (2008)
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A β β β β review of Chocolate (2008)
In the first half-hour of Chocolate, by Thai director Prachya Pinkaew (or as we almost have to call it, the Tony Jaa crew), we have a touching story about an autistic girl called Zen, growing up with ...
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26 days ago
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Two oddball documentaries. A screwball comedy that didn't quite work. Everything you need to know about Pfresno, TX.
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27 days ago
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My β β β β review of Chocolat (1988)
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A β β β β review of Chocolat (1988)
Claire Denis' semi-autobiographical first feature, Chocolat, in part describes what it might have felt like to grow up in colonial French Africa, as the director's stand-in, taken for a tourist, revis...
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27 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Chloe (2009)
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A β β β Β½ review of Chloe (2009)
Chloe is unusual in the Atom Egoyan canon because he isn't its writer as well. Maybe it's why it's so linear in structure. It's clear why he was still attracted to this erotic thriller, though. Egoyan...
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28 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (1988)
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A β β β Β½ review of Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (1988)
Ryu is taken to the old studio where he worked to spark his memory, and he tells a lot of nice anecdotes about working with Ozu and other directors. I was especially taken with his self-deprecating hu...
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29 days ago
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My β β β β review of Chinese Roulette (1976)
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A β β β β review of Chinese Roulette (1976)
Ok, someone remind me never to play Chinese Roulette's eponymous party game, with Fassbinder especially, but with anyone I care to remain friends with. Youch! Peppered with interesting shots, this dif...
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29 days ago
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My β β β Β½ review of Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002)
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A β β β Β½ review of Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002)
I should have known to expect Jeff Lau's "nonsense comedy" from Chinese Odyssey 2002, especially since past movies using that brand were led by Stephen Chow. I actually resent the slapstick and broade...
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about 1 month ago
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My β β β β review of A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)
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A β β β β review of A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)
Stephen Chow goes back in time to Mythical China in A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella, and despite an even sillier Westernized title, its focus on his character's tragic romance(s) means Part 2 i...
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
SBG/This Week in Geek - Reviewed: undertone, Barry S1-4, Lady Reporter, Contract Killer, A Perfect Murder, Romy and Micheleβs High School Reunion, Pygmalion, Doctor Who-Casualties of War, Hell Was Full, Torg Eternity
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This Week in Geek (16-22/03/26)
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My β β β Β½ review of A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
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A β β β Β½ review of A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
At odds in A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box is, on the one hand, the gorgeous Taiwanese-style cinematography (evoking such films as The Bride with White Hair) and the broad slapstick humor an...
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about 1 month ago
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My β β β β review of A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
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A β β β β review of A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
In the first film, a tree demon was imprisoned for 100 years, so A Chinese Ghost Story III takes place 100 years later! It's back and running a ghostly bordello. Somehow, and without explanation (neit...
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about 1 month ago
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Pod-typool. Jet Li's last HK film before going to Hollywood. Cynthia Rothrock in many hairstyles. My Fair Lady without the songs.
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about 1 month ago
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