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Rod Lott
How many women-in-prison movies are too many? I don't know; I haven't reached that number yet, even after marathoning through two separate three-films-on-two-discs collections: Shout! Factory's "Women in Cages Collection" and Synapse's "Women in Prison Triple Feature."

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Rod Lott
It’s strangely comforting that “Turbulent Skies” hasn’t an original idea in its 87 minutes.

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Rod Lott
Proof that "13 Assassins" isn't your everyday Takashi Miike film: The opening scene depicts a man committing hara-kiri, and just as the sword is about to be inserted into his stomach, the director cuts away.

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Rod Lott
Sometimes a mess can be a good thing. Consider the canvases of Jackson Pollock, the beauty of bikini Jell-O wrestling, or the green-screen genre mishmash that is “The Warrior’s Way.”

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Rod Lott
“Hobo with a Shotgun” started as a joke — specifically, as the winner of a fake trailer contest to promote the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez collaboration “Grindhouse.” For some reason, it follows “Machete,” the first faux coming attraction in “Grindhouse,” to a full-fledged feature.

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Rod Lott
Here's what I knew about the video game "Tekken" before watching the film it now has spawned: "Tekken" is a video game; I think it involves fighting.

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Rod Lott
With "Sucker Punch," few in-betweeners exist. You either like it or you hate it with a fury of a thousand suns.

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Rod Lott
If only my dad were a fan of superhero movies, his Father's Day gift would be a no-brainer: "The Superman Motion Picture Anthology: 1978-2006."

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Rod Lott
Your first sign that "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen" is not a mass-audience crowd-pleaser is that most moviegoers — even those who thrive on action — would ask, "Who the hell is Chen Zhen?"

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Rod Lott
What do 1973’s “Gordon’s War” and 1988’s “Off Limits” have to do with one another?

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Rod Lott
Australian strongman Nathan Jones graduates from small roles in "Troy,” "The Condemned" and especially “The Protector” to a starring one in "Muay Thai Giant," a 2008 Thai effort that plays like an odd mix of "Drunken Master," "Popeye," "The Pacifier" and TV's "Top Chef."

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Rod Lott
As aggressive as its name implies, "Drive Angry" is so deliriously over-the-top, I can't help but love it.

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Rod Lott
Whether “The Transporter” or now “The Mechanic,” Jason Statham has one job in Hollywood, but he does it quite well: being cinema’s most reliable action star of the 21st century.

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Rod Lott
Before he was Oscar bait, fresh-faced former Okie Ron Howard was a child actor with directorial dreams.

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Rod Lott
I miss Andy Sidaris.