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“Good Kill”
Years go by, decades end, cultures change, and yet no matter the place and time, human beings constantly dream up new, horrible ways to kill one another. In the late 1600s, Sweden gave us the howitzer. In 1836, Samuel Colt invented the revolver and ushered in ...
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“Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons”: Another Giddily Over-the-Top Fantasy Epic from Stephen Chow
For audiences habitually hungry for visual feasts of movement and mayhem, lapping up Stephen Chow’s films can be irresistible. That unstoppable box office titan of Hong Kong cinema’s wired filmmaking flair is evident as ever in his ninth feature as director, t...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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Korean Import ‘The Tower’ Can’t Stand On Its Own
There are remakes and there are reboots, and then there are carbon copies like The Tower, a new-to-DVD Korean import that shamelessly reinterprets the 1974 American disaster epic The Towering Inferno for modern-day audiences. It’s needlessly familiar and hardl...
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