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The Three Musketeers – It Ain’t Art But Boy Is It Fun!

Posted by   on October 21, 2011

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Paul W.S. Anderson makes semi-big budget B-movies that repel critics as much as they attract a hardcore group of fans. In his most ambitious film yet, Anderson gives us the best bits from Alexandre Dumas’ The three Musketeers – and airships! In 3D! And, yes, it’s great fun!

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Grade: B

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Thor Thunders Through Teaser Trailer!

Posted by   on December 11, 2010

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It looks to me like Kenneth Branagh knows his Asgardians. Very cool!

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MOVIE REVIEW: Punisher: War Zone: Even Stevenson Can’t Save The Punisher!

Posted by   on December 6, 2008

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I’m a bit of a Marvel movie geek. I’ve seen all of them – including the Dolph Lundgren Punisher and George Lucas’ Howard the Duck, and the TV-movie of Doctor Strange [which I have on VHS]. I have most of them on DVD – and have re-watched most of them [including Howard the Duck] – and I really wanted Punisher: War Zone to be good. Sadly, it is the worst of the lot.

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Why? Well, like another action movie I reviewed recently, Max Payne, PWZ is an exceptionally well crafted film, technically, but it’s simply awful as a story. The thread thin plot is simply an excuse to create mayhem, much of it so far over the top that it becomes [somewhat queasily] hilarious.

Director Lexi Alexander is a stuntwoman turned director, so she understands how to stage action set pieces of both the fistic and bullets & booms varieties. There’s a lot of imagination in those areas and they’re supported by solid and occasionally very good performances from the cast – Ray Stevenson, especially, embodies Frank Castle as well as he can be.

In the end, though, all the the technical expertise in the world can’t hide the fact that this is a Marvel movie that lacks what Marvel has always been good at – heart and soul. Punisher is literally “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” No wonder Thomas Jane wanted nothing to with it.

Final Grade: D

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Unexpected Pleasures: Gabriel, Outpost, Rowan Atkinson Live, Sands of Oblivion and Black Moon Rising

Posted by   on March 19, 2008 · 1 comment

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Unexpected Pleasures EclipseMagazine.com DVD Reviews

If you want to watch something a little different from your average Hollywood Blockbuster, or want a night off from playing online games at http://www.poker.dk, then you might want to take a look at some of these lesser known titles. Beginning this week, I’ll be looking at B-movies, unheralded re-releases and direct-to-video releases on a roughly weekly basis. Let’s start with Australian indie Gabriel [archangels versus fallen], Outpost [a new form of scientifically created undead], Rowan Atkinson Live! [he's way more than Black Adder or Mr. Bean], Sands of Oblivion [archaeologists searching for buried movie sets], and Black Moon Rising [an early Tommy Lee Jones heist flick].

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