Author: Paul Ryan
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DVD Review: Vanquisher
DVD REVIEW: Thailand’s Vanquisher goes toe-to-toe with the action films from the rest of the world. How does it stack up?
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DVD Review: Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil
DVD REVIEW: It should have lasted longer, but Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil will always be with us on DVD.
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Mega Piranha
REVIEW: (In)famous LA production house Asylum super-sizes another fishy creature as 1980s teen sensation Tiffany goes head-to-head with the mega piranha, a mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha from the Amazon and eating their way toward Florida.
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Frankenstein (National Theatre Live)
London’s venerable Royal National Theatre broadcasts Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein.
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Kiss Me Again (Baciami Ancora)
After dabbling with Hollywood and Will Smith’s dramatic efforts, Italian writer-director Gabriele Muccino returns to his earlier successes with this sequel to the 2001 comedy-drama The Last Kiss. Starring Stefano Accorsi and Vittoria Puccini, is this kiss as good as the first time?
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Machete Maidens Unleashed (Australian Film Festival 2011)
The director of Not Quite Hollywood turns his attention to the countless sex-n’-violence epics produced in the Marcos-era Phillippines. This neglected corner of the film industry is given some additional light as the film plays at the Australian Film Festival.
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Melbourne International Film Festival: Machete Maidens Unleashed!/Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
There a number of documentaries screening at this year’s MIFF that look at the filmmaking process. Here are two such films, each dealing with the exploitation end of the business, focusing on markedly different eras – to say nothing of countries – but with overlapping themes and participants. In Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Not Quite Hollywood director Mark…
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Melbourne International Film Festival: Tetro
Ample proof that for all Coppola’s career ups and downs, the maestro can still deliver.
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