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Kung Fu Panda: My Fat Belly Style Can Defeat Whatever You Got
One trait common to all Kung Fu masters is that they practice a distinctive style of Kung Fu- Monkey, Crane, Hamster. But when you’re a big, cuddly Panda, the options are limited: either sneeze and try to scare the hell out of everyone or develop your own style around your enormous gut.
In Kung Fu Panda, Po (Jack Black) is charged with the task of discovering his own style of Kung Fu as he tries to fulfill his destiny as the Dragon Warrior, which he tackles with great enthusiasm. Vicious beatings by Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and the Furious Five, all chagrined that they were not chosen to be the Dragon Warrior, cannot crush his spirit, and he’s cool with leaving behind his father’s dreams of taking over the family noodle business. His
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Tags: Action, Animation, Dragon, family, kung fu
Gattaca: Beware The Man With Dirty Genes
As long as there have been people, there’s been a desire to change the way we are. We’ve found ways to manipulate some of these things- dye our hair, wear colored contacts, exercise to get stronger, train to run faster. But wouldn’t it be nice if we were just born that way? We could have the inate ability to run a four minute mile or grow to exactly six feet five inches or have strawberry blond hair. And not only tweak our physical traits, but be born disease-free and without the chance of developing disease later in life. It’s every parent’s dream- to have a physically perfect child molded to their own specifications.
Tags: ability, death, disease, DNA, identity, money, Society
All Aboard The Midnight Meat Train
If you didn’t know any better, you might think The Midnight Meat Train was the most anticipated, greatest movie you never heard of.
Tags: butcher, campaign, disgust, epic, fear, Horror, murder, photographer
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore
Tobe Hooper’s career has been on a downward slide since he made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. Maybe he’s a hack that got lucky with his first theatrically released movie.
Tags: budget, cannibal, disgust, family, Horror, remake, splatterfest, viscera
A Review Of The Devil’s Rejects- That’s A Better Introduction Than It Deserves
William Wyler once said a movie is “eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors.” Unfortunately Rob Zombie’s math was a little off when he made The Devil’s Rejects, as he had about eight percent script and two percent competent actors.
Tags: budget, character, family, homicidal, lifestyle, Movie, murder, sequence
Eagle Eye Decoded
As October looms ahead, we can only prepare for the great month of quality movies ahead of us. But, to celebrate the late season of blockbusters, I had to go back to the basics and see the much-hyped Shia LaBeouf in “Eagle Eye.”
Tags: Action, blockbuster, Plot, Review, strategist
Sex Crime Of The Century
Revenge movies really started to come into their own in the 1970’s. Movies like I Spit on Your Grave, Death Wish, and Coffy featured seemingly normal people who become bloodthirsty maniacs hellbent on retribution. It even crossed genres, such as in High Plains Drifter, a western.
Tags: Ingmar Bergman, murder, revenge, Rip-off, vengeance, violence, Wes Craven
A Killing Spree In The Badlands
There have been several movies based on the Charles Starkweather/Caril Fugate killing spree of the late 1950’s. Badlands, the debut of writer/director Terrence Malick, is one such movie.
Tags: alienation, debut, director, emptiness, murder, violence
Henry: Portrait Of A Movie Review
Henry, played by the always great Michael Rooker, is a drifter. He spends time driving and working low-paying jobs. But he’s a little different than your ordinary drifter. Shots of murdered women are intercut with Henry’s menial activities, implying that murder may be his hobby.
Tags: Killer, Michael Rooker, Movie, murder, prison, Review, serial, violence
Massacre At Central High
Although set in Southern California, Central High exists in some purgatory where only high school kids exist- no adults show up until the final minutes of the movie.
Tags: Andrew Stevens, direction, love, Movie, purgatory, revenge, Robert Carradine, scene, school, sequence, writing
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