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Ninja III: The Domination

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Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper got a raw deal. The director of horror hits The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist didn't deserve to be sent to movie jail for 1985's Lifeforce. It's a well-crafted, well-intentioned work that was mismarketed and misunderstood, losing a bundle of money and soon sending Hooper into the lands of episodic television and direct-to-video features.
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Dead Souls

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

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El Cantante


None August 9th, 2007

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Reviewer's grade: C+

 

Genre films are difficult to pull off, but with the right person in the lead of a musical biopic, for example, that genre can, well, sing. Think of "Walk the Line," "What's Love Got to Do With It," "Funny Girl" and even, reaching back even further, "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

 

Those who have made "El Cantante," the story of Puerto Rican salsa king H

 
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