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Action-Adventure
Tuesday, 02 September 2003 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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title:
Jaws (25th Anniversary Edition)
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studio:
Universal Home Video
MPAA rating:
PG
starring:
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Chris Rebello, Jay Mello
release year:
1975
film rating:
Five stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
An excellent argument can be made for 'Jaws' still being Steven
Spielberg's best movie. It's the greatest action/monster movie after
'King Kong,' works perfectly well today, has no dated elements, and is
free of Spielberg's later tendency toward sentimentality. It's one of
the few films he's made that can actually be described as perfect. This
is not to say that it is one of the greatest films ever made, because
it really is nothing more than what it seems to be -- but it does
everything it sets out to do spectacularly well.
Tuesday, 15 July 2003 |
Written by
Jessica Amen
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title:
Shanghai Knights
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studio:
Touchstone Pictures
MPAA rating:
PG-13
starring:
Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Donnie Yen, Aidan Gillen, Fann Wong, Tom Fisher, Aaron Johnson, Kim Chan, Gemma Jones
release year:
2003
film rating:
Three-and-a-Half Stars
sound/picture:
Four Stars
reviewed by:
Jessica Amen
After having seen “Shanghai Noon,” the first movie with the Jackie
Chan/Owen Wilson duo, and loving every minute of it, I was excited to
hear of a sequel. While “Shanghai Knights” is entertaining and
side-stitchingly funny at times, I am sad to say that it does not
compare to the first film.
Tuesday, 03 June 2003 |
Written by
Abbie Bernstein
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title:
Die Another Day: Two-Disc Special Edition
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studio:
MGM Home Entertainment
MPAA rating:
PG-13
starring:
Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike
release year:
2002
film rating:
Three Stars
sound/picture:
Four Stars
reviewed by:
Abbie Bernstein
In its 13-minute pre-credits sequence, the opening titles and about 20
minutes more of what follows, “Die Another Day” seems as though it’s
breaking with 40 years of James Bond tradition and doing something new
with the franchise – and not just because we see a bullet come at us
through that iconographic gun barrel at the beginning. We’re used to
Bond in all his personas – Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby
(once), Timothy Dalton and now Pierce Brosnan, who’s in his fourth gig
as the character – being captured and tortured, but we don’t expect it
to bleed through the opening credits or to go on for 14 months in story
terms. Furthermore, 007 doesn’t effect his own escape, but is rather
released into ...
Tuesday, 06 May 2003 |
Written by
Abbie Bernstein
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title:
Patriot Games (Special Collector's Edition)
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studio:
Paramount Home Video
MPAA rating:
R
starring:
Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox, James Earl Jones, Richard Harris
release year:
1992
film rating:
Three-and-a-Half Stars
sound/picture:
Three Stars
reviewed by:
Abbie Bernstein
1992’s “Patriot Games” is a sort of sideways-sequel to the submarine
hit “The Hunt for Red October.” The film marked the big-screen return
of novelist Tom Clancy’s hero, C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan, but Jack came
out of “Red” as Alec Baldwin and has become Harrison Ford for “Games.”
Ford subsequently reprised the role in “Clear and Present Danger,”
while most recently, Ben Affleck took it on in last year’s “The Sum of
All Fears.” Jack is always the same character, but only “Games and
“Danger” share much sense of continuity with one another.
Tuesday, 06 May 2003 |
Written by
Mel Odom
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title:
The Incredible Hulk Returns/The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk
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studio:
Anchor Bay Entertainment
MPAA rating:
NR
starring:
Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Eric Kramer, Steve Levitt, Rex Smith
release year:
2003
film rating:
Three Stars
sound/picture:
Three Stars
reviewed by:
Mel Odom
“Hulk smash!” Nearly every kid who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s and
loved Marvel Comics remembers that famous epithet. Created by comics
legend Stan Lee, the Hulk captured the imaginations of those young
readers who dreamt of having the power to transform themselves into
raging monsters that were adrenaline-driven engines of destruction.
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