Monthly Archives: December 2003

THE MUSIC MAN (DVD)

By | December 2003

While the songs sometimes suck the breath out of the film either by their length or their lackluster performances, it still is a decent rendition of Meredith Wilson’s classic musical…

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THE MUSIC MAN (DVD)

Big shoes are hard to fill, and Robert Preston had mighty big shoes. The tiny feet chosen to fill Preston’s shoes as the legendary Professor Harold...

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MIRAMAX BANNING ASIAN IMPORTS?

It certainly looks that away. Website Kung Fu Cinema was apparently served a cease and desist order from Miramax in regards to their unlawful selling of...

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PAYCHECK

Nowhere in “Paycheck,” the new John Woo film, does its star Ben Affleck take a sideways dive in slow-motion, a .45 blazing in each hand. In fact,...

FROM “BEAT THE GEEKS” STRAIGHT TO “THE CRAPPER”

Death at the hands of Troma is what you get when you “Beat the Geeks.” At least, that’s what filmmaker Paul J. Salamoff (Unbakeable) got when he...

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LOVELY

With “Lovely”, Trevor Hollen shows a sort of fascination with the dank, shady, seedy spots in people’s lives. I see him as the type of guy who’s...

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ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (DVD)

Beginning with 1976's “Assault on Precinct 13" and ending with 1981's “Escape From New York,” writer-director John Carpenter carved out quite a niche...

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HOME MOVIES BY PETER KIRBY

“Home Movies” is an accurate title for this collection of three shorts, insofar as the phrase pinpoints its relevance to the viewer. In fact, most home...

THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: TRAVELS WITH AMY – DARK X-MAS

God must hate horror conventions. I’ve been to shows where attendance was hindered by hurricanes, a tornado and now the first bad snowstorm of the...

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STANK TITS WEDDING VIDEO

This eight-minute video short was made by some very stoned guys who might still be in high school, though one of them has a pretty developed goatee, so I...

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CATCH DAMON PACKARD ON “EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR”

Other Cinema DVD has just released "EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR," a phantasmagoria of visionary works that expand the genre of the horror film. Programmed by...

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