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Time to Hunt, 2020

In a near-future dystopian South Korea, a group of friends get together for a heist with the intention of escaping to better circumstances. The crew manages to successfully rob an illegal casino, but their heist puts them on the radar of a killer named Han (Park Hae-soo) who is hired by the gambling house to track down the men.

On paper, this should have been a slam dunk for me: heist, action sequences, slightly enigmatic hit man, etc.

But I was surprised to find myself both uninterested and unmoved by what was happening on screen. I think that it had to do with the way that the film tries to build its sense of foreboding, often going a step too far for me with the use of sequences that turn out to be nightmares (or flashbacks?). I never really clicked with any of the leads--good or bad--and it felt a lot like watching them all go through the motions.

The action sequences are fine. There's a long stand-off that takes place in a hospital that generates some good tension. I just . . . spent almost the whole two hour run time struggling to care about any of it. And while I will stay very vague, the way that the third act played out didn't do much to raise my opinion.

I find myself with very little to say here, good or bad. Maybe if I'd been in a more attentive mood I'd have gotten more out of this one. As it stands, a very medium and forgettable experience with the occasionally engaging action sequence.




Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.

Incoherence (Bong Joon Ho, 1994)
5.5/10
The Open Door (Doc Duhame, 2008)
- 5/10
Influenza (Bong Joon Ho, 2004)
5.5/10
Jazz on a Summer's Day (Bert Stern, 1959)
7/10

Precursor to all concert films has a wide range of stars and colorful crowd scenes Chuck Berry has them dancing and Satchmo has them in awe.
The Orator (Tusi Tamasese, 2011)
6.5/10
Among the Shadows (Tiago Mesquita, 2019)
4/10
The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili, 2020)
6/10
Jallikattu (Lijo Jose Pellissery, 2019)
6.5/10

Part Biblical parable, part exotic horror adventure and part homage to Woody Allen's never-made movie What's Up, Friggin' Buffalo.
The Mighty McGurk (John Waters, 1947)
5.5/10
025 Sunset Red (Laida Lertxundi, 2016)
5/10
Just Short of Perfect (Ale McHaddo, 2021)
6/10
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
- 8/10

The title ballet is one of the greatest scenes in movie history in this ultimate depiction of what it costs to be an artist.
Autofiction (Laida Lertxundi, 2020)
5/10
The Secret Garden (Fred M. Wilcox, 1949)
6.5/10
Soulmate(s) (Timothy Armstrong, 2021)
5/10
Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
+ 7.5/10

Audrey Hepburn seems to be threatened by everybody, including Tex (James Coburn) when her late husband's $150,000 disappears. Witty, romantic and suspenseful.
Up in Smoke (Lou Adler, 1978)
6.5/10
Indecent Desires (Louis Silverman [Doris Wishman], 1968)
5/10
Tremors II: Aftershocks (S.S. Wilson, 1996)
6/10
Tremors (Ron Underwood, 1990)
6.5/10


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Love Tremors. One of my favorite movies period. Always gets me in the mood to make movies.



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I have a virus that is really kicking my posterior so I'll be as brief as I can be :


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Star Trek - (2009)

As with so many reboots, this film spends a great deal of time reintroducing characters and explaining how they came to be the people we know they are. Of course, the neat trick of this film is to have Nero (Eric Bana) come from the future and destroy the old timeline - meaning this is a reboot in every sense of the word. Looks fantastic, and maintains a certain excitement from start to finish - so the only thing we're really missing is a good old fashioned story with morals or a certain philosophical principle. Too much time is given to Kirk and Spock growing up and forging their respective careers and coming to loggerheads on the Enterprise for that. I don't think I've seen any of the subsequent films - but I mean to.

7.5/10


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Urbania - (2000)

Low budget, independent film that takes gay issues and infuses a tale full of certain urban legends into the main non-linear story. The first half feels directionless despite it's strong themes, but it really gets going in it's second half - and when it gets going it kind of drops the whole 'urban legends' focus that was so prevalent in the first half. Does well considering it's budget though.

6/10


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Dreamland - (2006)

Young woman Audrey (Agnes Bruckner) has to choose between looking after her widowed father, her close best friend who has multiple sclerosis or the man she's just fallen madly in love with - and also her dream of going to college and becoming a writer. Some choices are impossible and bring the world crashing down on your head no matter which option you pick. This film was better than I thought it was going to be.

6.5/10


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Alien vs Predator Requiem - (2007)

When watching a film it's nice if you can tell what's going on - but AVP-R mostly takes place in the dead of night and many scenes are impossible to decipher. In any case, this film is a kind of mess - a shame, because it does have moments of effective horror. Sometimes it goes too far though - I really don't want to witness the grisly death of a cute 5 year-old boy or see a woman who is going into labor tortured by being from another planet. As it reaches it's predictable climax you'll wonder how rushed this production was, what the editors thought they were doing, and if they used the dim lighting to hide a multitude of sins.

3/10


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Spiderman 2 - (2004)

Formulaic fun is to be had in Spiderman 2 - which pretty much sticks to the same old superhero movie tropes. Alfred Molina is much welcome as Doctor Octopus, and there's a multitude a nice little cameos. I'm no big fan of Spiderman, but think these films are just entertaining enough to pass muster. Doesn't aspire to be a work of great cinematic art, but is colourful enough with decent effects, score and heart.

7/10
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Urbania - (2000)

Low budget, independent film that takes gay issues and infuses a tale full of certain urban legends into the main non-linear story. The first half feels directionless despite it's strong themes, but it really gets going in it's second half - and when it gets going it kind of drops the whole 'urban legends' focus that was so prevalent in the first half. Does well considering it's budget though.

6/10
I'm a fan of this film (though I recognize its limitations). After watching Orlando, I had my eye out for anything with Lothaire Bluteau. It also stars future Middleman Matt Keeslar and "It's that guy from The House of Yes!" Josh Hamilton.

You may be the only other person I've ever heard mention it!



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I'm a fan of this film (though I recognize its limitations). After watching Orlando, I had my eye out for anything with Lothaire Bluteau. It also stars future Middleman Matt Keeslar and "It's that guy from The House of Yes!" Josh Hamilton.

You may be the only other person I've ever heard mention it!
I recognized Josh Hamilton from Alive and Alan Cumming from Goldeneye and a host of other films and shows. For such a low budget film it does pack in a lot of recognizable faces.



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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - There's only so many ways you can trot out an origin story and this must have been different enough to satisfy a need. The surprising success of this and especially Black Panther must indicate that a large chunk of the viewing public are tired of the same old same old, white bread entries in the comic book movie universe. I guess some could retort by saying that a good movie is a good movie and will enjoy success no matter what. But that doesn't explain the new crop of Jurassic Park or two Amazing Spiderman films.

I'm not a Marvel fanboy but I thought this was pretty good. Simon Liu does a really good job in his first lead role and I'm admittedly a fan of Awkwafina so no complaints there. I liked the odd couple pairing and the matter of fact way it ended. No frills, no drama. Just two friends ready for whatever comes next. The requisite early fight scenes didn't involve firearms or otherworldly feats of strength and were nicely choreographed. If there are deficiencies they're in the usual places. The gluttonous amounts of CGI. The drawn out and largely predictable final battle.

It's hard to believe that I used to collect this self same comic book back when I was a kid. But it was called The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu and his father was supposed to be Fu Manchu. There's very little left of that but it's still a reasonable adaptation and a respectable addition to the Marvel catalogue.

80/100
I gotta wonder if I was just in a bad mood or something when I saw this movie because I AM a Marvel fanboy and I thought this movie proved my theory, in glorious fashion, that Marvel is finished and it will just take them a while to actually die. I thought this movie was terrible far beyond Thor: The Dark World and it made me not want to watch any future Marvel movies except for the Spider-Man films. And frankly, after the most recent trailer for that one I think they may have screwed the pooch there as well. I thought the third act of this movie was almost unbearable to sit through and I've also noticed that Marvel doesn't even seem to care about the quality of their CGI anymore as it was startlingly rough for a tentpole, well below the standard of the franchise. Coming on the heels of the fairly awful Black Widow, the pedestrian and stumbly Captain Marvel, the head-scratchingly disappointing Ant Man and the Wasp, and now my Marvel-loving friends actually walked out of Eternals, I think Marvel is a dead man walking and this comes from someone who has gotten more joy from that franchise over its first decade than anyone probably has any right to.



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Jazz on a Summer's Day (Bert Stern, 1959)
7/10

Precursor to all concert films has a wide range of stars and colorful crowd scenes Chuck Berry has them dancing and Satchmo has them in awe.

Whoa! I don't know how I never knew about this, but thank you for putting me in the loop, I will be getting to this, with some like-minded friends, post-haste.



I gotta wonder if I was just in a bad mood or something when I saw this movie because I AM a Marvel fanboy and I thought this movie proved my theory, in glorious fashion, that Marvel is finished and it will just take them a while to actually die. I thought this movie was terrible far beyond Thor: The Dark World and it made me not want to watch any future Marvel movies except for the Spider-Man films. And frankly, after the most recent trailer for that one I think they may have screwed the pooch there as well. I thought the third act of this movie was almost unbearable to sit through and I've also noticed that Marvel doesn't even seem to care about the quality of their CGI anymore as it was startlingly rough for a tentpole, well below the standard of the franchise. Coming on the heels of the fairly awful Black Widow, the pedestrian and stumbly Captain Marvel, the head-scratchingly disappointing Ant Man and the Wasp, and now my Marvel-loving friends actually walked out of Eternals, I think Marvel is a dead man walking and this comes from someone who has gotten more joy from that franchise over its first decade than anyone probably has any right to.
No, no. Even with the score I gave it I can see where you're coming from. I can watch Black Widow whenever I want but I have no great desire to do so. I thought Captain Marvel was meh. Not really impressed by the two Ant-Man movies although I did enjoy the first one more than the second. I'm not going to bother to watch The Eternals. Maybe it's more a case of comic book movie burnout. But I did just finish Loki on Disney+ and I liked that. So who knows?



Scars of Dracula -


This is not a well-liked entry in the Hammer Dracula series, but I really enjoyed it for how it mixes the familiar with the unexpected. It's nice to see Dracula at his home base again and with not-so-loyal servants as well as the local tavern and its suspicious patrons. Speaking of our villain, I'm glad it got the whole resurrection bit out of the way early despite the questions it raises. As for the unexpected, the story, which involves a search for a missing ne'er-do-well brother and a would-be love triangle between responsible brother Simon, girlfriend Sarah and wolfish, creepy servant Klove (Patrick Troughton of Doctor Who fame) is not only full of surprises, but also a welcome change of pace from the revenge plots in the last few sequels. Other highlights are that it maintains the ramped-up sexiness also found in Taste the Blood and that it doesn't shirk on the blood and guts. Also, as a lover of movies that know the power of the color red, this movie provides a masterclass in it. While I approve of the hasty resurrection, some questions deserve answers: for starters, why are there so many British families in Romania? As for any use of a fake bat, the less said, the better. I still had a lot of fun and appreciate that the movie seems traditional and forward-thinking at the same time. With that said, a fast forward to 1972 sounds like just what the doctor (Van Helsing? Ha, couldn't resist) ordered.



The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
- 8/10

The title ballet is one of the greatest scenes in movie history in this ultimate depiction of what it costs to be an artist.
Yes Mark! Soon to be released as part of Criterion's first ever 4K package! Cracking film.



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No, no. Even with the score I gave it I can see where you're coming from. I can watch Black Widow whenever I want but I have no great desire to do so. I thought Captain Marvel was meh. Not really impressed by the two Ant-Man movies although I did enjoy the first one more than the second. I'm not going to bother to watch The Eternals. Maybe it's more a case of comic book movie burnout. But I did just finish Loki on Disney+ and I liked that. So who knows?
I really don't think it's burnout, at least for me, I was really excited for all of those movies. Like, I was a pretty big fan of The Wasp from the comics going back to when I was a little kid, I was really psyched to see her come to the fore but that movie just had a ****ty script. And Captain Marvel?! I can't tell you how jazzed I was for that (though I had my doubts Larsen was the right actor for it and I remain unconvinced), I bought all the CM comics since that character became CM and read them all... and that movie is just not good. Academy Award-winning actors, indie-darling directors, and just a crappy movie. I watch about 15 minutes of that movie over and over and that's it. Black Widow... I was such a fan of that character from the other films and they just utterly **** the bed in pursuit of launching the new character - and just writing a garbage script. And, no, I'm not dragging my carcass to the theater for almost 3 hours for a movie my friends who like Marvel movies got up and walked out of.
I don't know what the hell happened, for a while I felt like Feige & Co. could do no wrong. Now I honestly feel like they can do no right.



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Scars of Dracula -


This is not a well-liked entry in the Hammer Dracula series, but I really enjoyed it for how it mixes the familiar with the unexpected. It's nice to see Dracula at his home base again and with not-so-loyal servants as well as the local tavern and its suspicious patrons. Speaking of our villain, I'm glad it got the whole resurrection bit out of the way early despite the questions it raises. As for the unexpected, the story, which involves a search for a missing ne'er-do-well brother and a would-be love triangle between responsible brother Simon, girlfriend Sarah and wolfish, creepy servant Klove (Patrick Troughton of Doctor Who fame) is not only full of surprises, but also a welcome change of pace from the revenge plots in the last few sequels. Other highlights are that it maintains the ramped-up sexiness also found in Taste the Blood and that it doesn't shirk on the blood and guts. Also, as a lover of movies that know the power of the color red, this movie provides a masterclass in it. While I approve of the hasty resurrection, some questions deserve answers: for starters, why are there so many British families in Romania? As for any use of a fake bat, the less said, the better. I still had a lot of fun and appreciate that the movie seems traditional and forward-thinking at the same time. With that said, a fast forward to 1972 sounds like just what the doctor (Van Helsing? Ha, couldn't resist) ordered.
Ya know, I panned the **** out of this movie two years ago but, as a huge Hammer fan, your review makes me want to re-watch it with a more positive attitude.



Ya know, I panned the **** out of this movie two years ago but, as a huge Hammer fan, your review makes me want to re-watch it with a more positive attitude.
That was one of my favorite reviews of yours. I don't hate it as much as you did then, but I think we can all agree that zero effort went into the poster at least.



Looks like it was designed by the winner of a "Design the next Dracula poster contest" at the local high school.
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Ya know, I panned the **** out of this movie two years ago but, as a huge Hammer fan, your review makes me want to re-watch it with a more positive attitude.
I remember you saying it was pretty bad when I went in, so my expectations were low, but I was pleasantly surprised. Do you remember what issues you have with it?



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I remember you saying it was pretty bad when I went in, so my expectations were low, but I was pleasantly surprised. Do you remember what issues you have with it?
Ya know, I don't and I think it's better that way. I can go in with a better attitude.