Movie Review: Red Cliff

For my latest movie review covering titles I’ve picked up from the Far East, I’m briefly moving the focus from Japan a little west to China (and in the future I’ll be incorporating some martial arts cinema from Hong Kong in as well). If you’ve played certain video games over the last 20+ years, namely older titles like “Romance Of The 3 Kingdoms” or more recently any of the “Dynasty Warriors” series, or studied up on your ancient history, you may be familiar with the feudal dynasties of ancient China-specifically the time period of the Han Dynasty from roughly the year 175 to around the year 210. The time near the end of the Han is the focus of one of popular director John Woo’s latest films, and this one is truly being billed as an epic. Does it live up to the hype? Click below for my capsule review of Woo’s latest epic-Red Cliff.

Movie Review: Clash Of The Titans (2010)

First Friday nights usually mean appointments in the DC suburbs after a couple hours to eat, shop and chill. After all is said and done I usually try and take in a movie, when there’s nothing must-see I use my schedule and process of elimination to determine what I see. Tonight’s result of that is a quick capsule review of the latest mega-special effects extravaganza: Clash Of The Titans. The 2010 version.

Movie Review: Ninja Assassin

Time to do a little catching up on movies, both ones I’ve seen and will be seeing soon. Today I’ll start with the newest ninja flick to hit theaters, it first came out at Thanksgiving and was just released on DVD and now I’ve gotten around to seeing it. Here then is my capsule review of “Ninja Assassin”.

Movie Review: Voltron: Fleet Of Doom

Time to catch up on movie reviews, I’ve seen a couple new ones recently and another one will be coming up soon (likely Ninja Assassin, which I’ll get from iTunes Tuesday), so I’ll start with the latest cash cow in the recent revival of my favorite 80s cartoon/anime (of course I idn’t know at the time-hey, I was only 7!) and still one of my all-time favorites, back for the ultimate dream team pairing. So here it is, my brief review of the recently re-released “Voltron: Fleet Of Doom”.

Movie Review: Big Man Japan

As noted yesterday I did pick up a couple Japanese movies when I went to Borders Friday night. One turned out to be basically porn in disguise. The other one…was not. In fact, it could pass for an arthouse flick! It actually was one I’d seen before and thought a couple times about getting elsewhere but passed until now. So without further adieu here’s my capsule review of the other addition to my Japanese cinema collection-“Big Man Japan”. (Updated 2/22/10 with thoughts on DVD extras)

Movie Review: Sukeban Boy

Ah, Borders…truly a wonderful place to shop for books and DVDs. Especially if you’re looking for good foreign films-never know what you’ll find. Like this one I found today-tough biker kid blessed with a pop princess looks, sent to an all-girl school, up against every fanservice club imagineable…the things you find without trying sometimes! Hence this latest movie review straight from Japan-Sukeban Boy. Oh, before I forget, this is probably NSFW.

Movie Review: Lady Ninja Kaede

Made a trip to Best Buy to replace a broken PS2 controller (it lasted nearly 4 years under my style of gameplay…that’s saying something but make them more durable, Sony! It’s the first controller I’ve had that I’ve ever broken!) so I glanced at the DVDs real quick of course and saw this one…perfect. Tokyo Shock film. Japanese extra-cheese flick. Ninjas and samurai. And of course a very well-endowed lady ninja on the front cover…know where this is going, right? Want to know more? The click below for my review of the latest Tokyo Shock classic to reach my library-Lady Ninja Kaede. Advisory-this is probably NSFW.

Movie Review: Gamer

A lot of us enjoy our video games. But imagine stuff like Second Life on a much bigger scale, where you’re playing a game but controlling a real person in a life-or-death MMO shooter where you can win freedom for your character…if he survives long enough. That’s kind of the premise for the latest movie I’m briefly reviewing here: “Gamer”.

Movie Review: Zombie Hunter Rika

It’s time once again to dig deep into the vault that is cheesy cult/slasher/horror flicks from Japan, as I added another one to my collection today. So what do you get when you add zombies, samurai, and cute Japanese schoolgirls together with a heavy helping of ridiculous? The movie I’m reviewing here, Zombie Hunter Rika.

Movie Review-Avatar

Since it’s the first Friday of the month (or was by this time) I took in a movie after my usual monthly business was taken care of…tonight I decided to buy into the hype and see what could be the #1 movie ever in terms of box office take before too long. Could James Cameron do it again? While it’s still fresh in my mind here’s my brief review of “Avatar”.

Movie Review: Transylmania

Well, my schedule worked out well enough to the point that I was able to get myself to a movie tonight, scratching another one off my “to see” list. And one that only someone like me would like because of what it’s about, so whether you like it or not here’s my quick review of the new film “Transylmania”.

Funny MMA Video Of The Day: Soon On Screen-Beauty And The Beast…And The Bread

OK, made that one up in reference to an upcoming movie (might be direct-to-DVD) called “Blood And Bone”. The title refers to the 3 MMA fighters featured in the film and trailer-The Beauty is of course Gina Carano, The Beast is Bob Sapp, and obviously The Bread is Kimbo Slice. I can’t embed this video into a post (out of my control, I can only do it for a few sites without paying for that option) but it’s in the vodpod or you can watch it after the jump. Enjoy.

http://dvd.ign.com/dor/objects/20177/blood-and-bone/videos/blood_bone_dvd_071209.html

(No release date yet that I know of for the movie)

Movie Review: Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li

One of the things that sucks about where I live is not being able to see all the moves I want to when they come out without having to go nearly an hour away. The area I live in has 100K+ people, lots of malls, shopping centers everywhere, and all of just 9 crappy movie screens, although years ago we had 18. So I had to wait until this movie hit iTunes the other day to get it, but now I have it so here is my next movie review: Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li.

Movie Review: Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball

I make no secret of the fact that my number one hobby/pastime is video games, past and present. I’ve alwys enjoyed studying and learning more about the history of video games, which date back to just before I was born (about the same time that “Space Invaders” came out). So when browsing iTunes the other day I came across a video game-themed documentary and immediately jumped on the chance to get it. Here then is my take on “Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball”.

Movie Review: Sukeban Deka: The Movie 2

As promised, now that I’ve watched the first “Sukeban Deka” movie, it’s on to the second one in the series, which means more crazy yo-yo action & antics. Click below to read my review of the Japanese classic Sukeban Deka: The Movie 2.