Revenge

279 posts in 'Revenge'

Shogun Assassin 5: Cold Road to Hell (aka Kozure Okami: Jigoku e Ikuzo! Daigoro) dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   July 10, 2008   ⋅   Comment [1]

Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi, Renji Ishibashi, Koichi Sato
Genre: Japan, Samurai, Action
So, after our reviews of the previous four Shogun Assassin DVDs, I’m pretty sure you know what to expect with Shogun Assassin 5: Cold Road to Hell: loads of awesome swordfights, tricked out machine gunning baby-carriage antics, and more arterial [...]

Machine Girl movie review

by Chris   ⋅   June 7, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

Director: Noburo Iguchi
Starring: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Honoka
Genre: Japan, comedy, horror
This film will be screening at SF Indie’s Another Hole in the Head 2008, June 6, 12, and 14. Click here for showtimes.
Former AV director Noburo Iguchi’s latest picture will undoubtably be compared to Yudai Yamaguchi’s Meatball Machine — at least by those attending SF’s [...]

Death Proof movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 22, 2007   ⋅   Comments [19]

At just 80 minutes Death Proof is Quentin’s shortest film to date, and somehow his most interminable. Overly chatty and under-compelling, its tale of a stuntman/serial killer (a vehicular-homicidal maniac) lulls when it should wow and stalls when it should kick into high gear. The film is broken into two halves, the first concerning a [...]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   February 22, 2007   ⋅   Comments [2]

Being that I’ve already reviewed Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, and professed my deep love for it in our Best of 2006 list, I’m going to launch straight into the DVD review.
Funimation presents Shinobi: Heart Under Blade in an absolutely pristine 2.35:1 transfer (truly the best I’ve seen) representing its theatrical aspect ratio, with your choice [...]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade movie review

by Chris   ⋅   June 9, 2006   ⋅   Comments [2]

Based on the novel by Futaro Yamada, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (aka: Shinobi 2005, nothing to do with the SEGA game) is a classic tale of star crossed lovers in Tokugawa era Japan. Oboro and Gennosuke, born to opposing ninja clans locked in a centuries long quiet war, have found a love that flies in [...]

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (aka Joshuu 701-go: Sasori) movie review

by Chris   ⋅   July 21, 2005   ⋅   Comments [4]

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion is the first film in the Scorpion trilogy, as well as the first film by director Shunya Ito. Based on the manga of the same name, The story follows Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji), the fiercest inmate in the Japanese women’s prison system, and for that matter, all women in prison films. [...]

Kill Bill vol. 2 guest movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   May 4, 2004   ⋅   Comments [10]

The first half of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” was an action fever dream with moments of disproportionate intensity worthy of Michael Powell or Brian De Palma. In “Vol.2,” the tempo slows down but the characters deepen and expand as the saga comes to an end. The film should really be seen as a whole – [...]

Samurai Fiction movie review

by Kris   ⋅   January 16, 2004   ⋅   Comments [3]

THIS MOVIE SLAUGHTERS KILL BILL and KUROSAWA! Just give reputed rebel Hiroyuki Nakano 45 days and he’ll return with a completely unique, extensively tricked-out treasure that indulges its audience in everything that works well in cinema today, as well as many decades past. Innovative, incredible and awe-inspiring, this film combines seemingly spontaneous shots with amazingly [...]

Elephant he-said-she-said movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   November 14, 2003   ⋅   Comment [1]

SHE SAID: Ce n’est pas une école. Columbine is a subject I sometimes wish would just go away. Not because it was a tragedy, but because the media never handles situations of that magnitude truthfully. (i.e.: Iraq~ Jessica Lynch). Don’t you remember High School? Sure it was fun, but it wasn’t all hunky-dory and [...]

Ju-on: The Grudge guest movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   November 10, 2003   ⋅   Comments [3]

This was a review from Lee back when we used to write for Film Rotation. We are reprinting it here for the first time. Give it up for Lee!
From the land that seems pre-occupied with death, ghosts and the supernatural, (not necessarily in that order) comes another bit of heart stopping scare – “Juon: the [...]

Intolerable Cruelty he-said-she-said movie review screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 9, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

HE SAID: Ah, this review has been in the cooker for 3 days now. It’s always harder to review a film you’re sort of indifferent to. I’ll tell you straight out that Intolerable Cruelty is a funny film, though not as frenetic and quirky as O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona, or Barton [...]

I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) he-said-she-said dvd movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   July 14, 2003   ⋅   Comments [23]

Hey everyone. We just took a look at the I Spit on Your Grave Millennium DVD and thought we’d try a He-Said, She-Said review in an off-beat “dialogue” format based on our discussion.
EVERY TWO MINUTES, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. One out of every six American women have been the victims of [...]

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