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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

With Dead Souls, we can prove something about the Chiller cable network's original features that Remains could not: Source material is not to blame for their pervasive generic nature — it's the economy, stupid.
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The Philadelphia Experiment

There's a theory about remakes that perhaps Hollywood should stop remaking good movies and instead remake the bad ones, so that they may be improved. The problem with that theory is one runs the risk of the remake being bad, too. Case in point: The Philadelphia Experiment.
06/12/2013 | Comments 0

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

A few surprising things about Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters:
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• is produced by Will Ferrell,
• and is as fun as its title is dumb.
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The Bucket List


None January 17th, 2008

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Reviewer's grade: D

 

There's a reason theaters offer discounts to senior citizens: because they have to be enticed to come see movies that aren't worth full price. I think older folks will turn out in droves for "The Bucket List," expecting a feel-good warm fuzzy from two of America's most beloved elder actors.

 

But I also think they'll be terrified at what they see. Rather than reaffirm life, Rob Reiner's sappy film degrades it, treating it like a series of sitcom routines before bludgeoning you over the head with its grim message of mortality. "Hope you laughed your butt off at that part where Morgan Freeman tried to run Jack Nicholson off the racetrack, because you're gonna die with a bloody shunt protruding from your chest!" it screams (well, in so many words).

 

Co-starring a smug Sean Hayes (TV's "Will & Grace"), it's mainstream "adult" product at its most controlling. I'd almost rather die than watch it again. PG-13

 

"”Rod Lott 

 
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