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Piranha 3DD

It is there in the prologue where two former Okies (Gary Busey and Clu Gulager) and a farting dead cow get the party started, sending hatched baby piranha to Merkin County, Ariz. — a joke that should calibrate you with the movie’s wavelength … as if the bra-size title didn’t do that already. (I’d like […]

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The Hunters / Removal

Looks fairly cool, no? At least I thought so. Turns out, however, that the trailer is hardly representative of the film that “The Hunters“ really is. For starters, it doesn’t even show its leading man! That is Chris Briant, a Frenchman whose grasp of the English language is sub-Schwarzeneggerian. He plays an idealistic investigator fresh […]

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The Hunters / Removal

Looks fairly cool, no? At least I thought so. Turns out, however, that the trailer is hardly representative of the film that “The Hunters“ really is. For starters, it doesn’t even show its leading man! That is Chris Briant, a Frenchman whose grasp of the English language is sub-Schwarzeneggerian. He plays an idealistic investigator fresh […]

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Piranha 3D

It’s a loose remake of Joe Dante’s “Piranha,” which was born in 1978 because producer Roger Corman wanted to cash in on the popularity of “Jaws.” It worked. Things come full circle in “Mirrors” director Alexandre Aja’s version, opening with a prologue that winks back at Steven Spielberg’s shark blockbuster by having Richard Dreyfuss essentially […]

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