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Review of Robot Jox (1990)

By Adriano B (368) on 28 Jul 2013

Robot Jox was the half aborted and unfortunate first of american (B) movies to imitate Japan-mecha…

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Review of A Monster in Paris (2011)

By Adriano B (368) on 03 Jul 2013

It starts so so, with a lot of promising ideas, but an amateurish plot (too many characters at once, some twists that could be just-a-little-more-interesting,…

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Review of V/H/S/2 (2013)

By Adriano B (368) on 28 Jun 2013

Horror slaves to darknes could rejoice of a collection of shorts where every entry is usualy superior at the long movie actually at the cinema…

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Review of Shanghai Blues (1984)

By Adriano B (368) on 28 Jun 2013

Tsui Hark without martial art and a heartfelt tribute to cosmopolitic China (be it Shanghai or HK...): in a way, the style reminds me of an…

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Review of The Big Year (2011)

By Adriano B (368) on 08 Jun 2013

A strange beast, firmly inviting you to misunderstanding and self-dismissal: it's family entertainment of the oldest, children-safe TV, school,…

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Review of Ace Attorney (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 04 Jun 2013

What does Miike do when he feels playful? It plays, apparantely: not with the GB Advance, I ain't tellin ya $ hit, but with cliche & tropes…

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Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 03 Jun 2013

The world of Wes Anderson (from now on, the Wesverse) continue to exist within the boundaries of its selfcontained laws: the softening mercy…

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Review of Hotarubi no Mori e (2011)

By Adriano B (368) on 02 Jun 2013

Japanese like the ephemeral, because breauty and happyness shine brightly the exact moment they burn the fastest…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Adriano B (368) on 02 Jun 2013

Exactly what you can expect from Kar Way directing a story about Ip Man: In the mood of love being in the mood of martial arts…

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Review of Great Expectations (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 02 Jun 2013

Honest transposition of a classic where, like often in Dickens inspired flicks, you learn how the secondary characters preserve momentum better…

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Review of End of Watch (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 02 Jun 2013

Good cops film, not a thriller, just plain cop action…

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Review of Killer Joe (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 01 Jun 2013

In a weekend of black comedies I found this much more enjoyable. Much funnier and much darker…

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Review of Nightbreed (1990)

By Adriano B (368) on 10 May 2013

Uneven dark fantasy tour the force messed by the production, but without much horror meddling in the way of folklore - albeit not the Edda…

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Review of The Grey (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 04 Mar 2013

Un putain de survival!!!! Vraiment un putain de bon film à la fois poètique et taillé dans le roc…

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Review of Empire of the Sun (1987)

By Adriano B (368) on 04 Mar 2013

The obnoxious version of E.T. midget (Christian Bale!) is thrown into World War II in the farest angle of the globe…

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Review of Mai Mai Miracle (2009)

By Adriano B (368) on 04 Mar 2013

Simple story with rather interesting twists, set in a (recent) past fully materializing the tension between the (remote, and enormous) past…

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Review of Merantau (2009)

By Adriano B (368) on 29 Jan 2013

Gareth Evans knows how to use a camera and direct an action flick, defining the national way to action genre (then reaffirmed wih The Raid)…

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Review of The Sea Is Watching (2002)

By Adriano B (368) on 23 Jan 2013

It's like Little Women with well-mannered bitches. What's not to love, haters…

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Review of Grabbers (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 23 Jan 2013

Big monster horror with a little alcoholic tax of comic antics…

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Review of The Assassins (2012)

By Adriano B (368) on 20 Jan 2013

Everything chinese cinema should NOT be, and another terrifying omen about what mainland could do to HK cinema…

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