There Will Be Blood (Theatrical – 2007)

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Jan 282008
 

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There Will Be Blood (Theatrical – 2007)
Miramax / 2008
Writer/Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano & Paul F. Tompkins
Review by Adam Tracey

There Will Be Blood is the story of Daniel Plainview, an oilman and a ‘father’ of questionable morals. Using a tip from a passerby, his slick tongue and the cute face of his son, he talks a town into letting him buy up all their land on the promise of economical wealth, education and bountiful crops, so he can drill for oil and build his pipeline. While Plainview is dealing with his oil business, a local boy, Eli Sunday, who runs a small ministry, is slowly gathering the town’s folk against him. Continue reading »

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The Assassination of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford (Theatrical – 2007)

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Jan 282008
 

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Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) has been an admirer of the legendary bandit, Jessie James (Brad Pitt) since he was a young boy. When his brother, Charley (Sam Rockwell) becomes part of the James Gang, Robert gets the opportunity to meet his idol. Befriending the outlaw and becoming part of the gang, Robert realizes that his idol isn’t what he had created in his mind over the years. The young mans obsessive love soon turns to a bitter resent and the outcome is well documented.

Andrew Dominik’s follow up to his fantastic Chopper, has taken a long, long time, but I’ll be; it was worth it! This haunting little number will linger in your mind long after it’s finished. From Nick Cave’s beautiful score Continue reading »

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3:10 to Yuma

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Sep 172007
 

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3:10 to Yuma
(Lionsgate)
Review by Adam Tracey

Westerns aren’t my bag.  It just isn’t a time period or a genre that suits my fancy.  That is not to say I don’t watch them or even like them, because I do, but there are only two westerns I love and by love I mean they have an absolute replay value (if I may bastardize the English language for a moment) to them.  Those two westerns are Tombstone and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.   While I only love two, 3:10 To Yuma (the original starring Glen Ford and Van Heflin) and I are strange bedfellows.  This movie has woven its way through the last 20 years of my life. Continue reading »

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Film Review: Pesce’s Prequel Sheds Light on Franchise Vamps in ‘From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter’ (1999)

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Aug 172007
 

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Take a stroll down your average video store’s horror aisle and you’re bound to find the shelves being choked to death by a glut of unneeded, unwanted, direct-to-DVD sequels to movies that never really need any follow-ups. Film studios just seem to get a kick of turning stand alone pictures into ongoing franchises that get exponentially worse with each installment, for the sole purpose of milking the original film’s success for every last penny it may be worth. Sometimes, however, one or two of these opportunist sequels turns out to be not entirely bad. Some of them are actual even flat-out good movies. It’s not often but it does happen.

From Dusk Till Dawn is one of those movies that was good on its own and really did not in any way beg to be sequelized. Nevertheless, it has Continue reading »

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Film Review: Gritty Grindhouse Vampires Return for More Bloody Brawlin’ in ‘From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money’ (1999)

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Aug 172007
 

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I’m a big fan of the original From Dusk Till Dawn. So when I found myself strolling down the horror aisle from my local Blockbuster and saw the straight-to-DVD sequel sitting on the shelf, I just HAD to rent it. I knew damn well what I was getting myself into. I figured the movie would be absolute shit. How could you follow up From Dusk Till Dawn? That movie was AWESOME! Straight-to-DVD sequels in franchises that should’ve never become franchise pretty much always suck. I was expecting a crapfest when I picked this mother up. But I HAD to pick it up because, hey, it’s From Dusk Till Dawn, baby! And, man, I was actually pretty damn glad I picked it up. My expectations were flat-out W-R-O-N-G. From Dusk Till Continue reading »

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Film Review: Rodriguez’s ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ (1996) Gives Vampires a Grindhouse Make-Over

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Aug 172007
 

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“Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them! I don’t give a fuck how crazy they are!”

Wise words of advice if ever I heard any.

As I sit here at my computer typing up this review, a cardboard tube sits on a table behind me. Inside that cardboard tube is a rolled up movie poster for the original From Dusk Till Dawn just waiting for me to buy a frame and hang it up on a wall. Just it being there though should be enough of a hint to tip you off to the fact that I’m a fan of this flick Continue reading »

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Planetfall (2005)

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Feb 262007
 

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The planet of Zita has been ravaged by war after the population of the planet was subjected to a dangerous psychic drug called Psylenol. The drug enabled the population to unleash their pent up aggression through latent psychic abilities and in the process giving them the ability to destroy one another.

Years after all the Psylenol was rounded up a mysterious military cargo container, codenamed Planetfall, containing all of the remaining supply is lost on Zita and President Arch Stanton, played by legendary filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, wants that container in order to start his psychic military force all over again. Stanton isn’t the only one after the Continue reading »

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7 Mummies (Seven Mummies – 2006)

 Action, Adventure, B. Harris, Crime, Horror, Westerns, Zombies  No Responses »
Feb 192007
 

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Seeing names like Danny Trejo (The Devil’s Reject), Billy Drago (The Untouchables), Martin Cove (The Karate Kid II & III), Cerina Vincent (Cabin Fever), Matt Schulze (Blade 1 & 2) and Andrew Bryniarski (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) may lead you to automatically assume, at the very least, 7 Mummies may be worth a rental. Folks, you will be wasting that hard earned beer money. These actors need to get new agents.

When this heap begins were treated to a little intro skit in which we see two scurvy gold miner looking sorts dragging a big coffin, obviously filled with gold, through the desert. As they drag the box it catches on a large rock and tears the back open spilling gold coins all over the desert floor. The coots Continue reading »

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