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post #1 of 52
5/23/08 at 6:22pm
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Hi everyone on the forums, I'm one of the new bloggers. Please check below for my articles and leave any feedback you like. All the best.
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post #2 of 52
5/23/08 at 8:39pm
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Auteur Mulligans

I've posted a new article on my blog about WKW's Ashes of Time Redux:

http://chud.com/articles/blogs/407/A...Mulligans.html
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post #3 of 52
5/25/08 at 4:50am
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Today I ramble on about the Highlander remake that got shopped at Cannes

You can check it out here
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post #4 of 52
5/26/08 at 5:32am
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Today's post is all about some Japanese remakes of Kurosawa films. Warning, it's a bit long! It's also the last thing I'll write about remakes for a while, I promise!

Read the article right here if you're interested
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post #5 of 52
5/27/08 at 1:09am
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Find out about CGI monkeys and George Lucas below!

Click here for some monkey action
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post #6 of 52
5/28/08 at 4:31am
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Today's post is a review of the Takashi Miike film Ryu Ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon, which was based on the PS2 game Ryu Ga Gotoku released in the West as 'Yakuza'

You can read the review at this link
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post #7 of 52
5/29/08 at 4:41am
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Today's post is about Lost and The Prisoner, and you can find it below

Have a look and see what you think HERE
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post #8 of 52
5/30/08 at 4:49am
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Hello everybody, today I managed to touch on the sort of sequel to Shaolin Soccer, Shaolin Girl, big-up the movie Maiko Haaaan!!! and name drop Kankuro Kudo, one of the best writers working at the minute!

See what you think right here, but please don't watch Shaolin Girl
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post #9 of 52
5/31/08 at 4:39am
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Here's a new post today, in which I start off praising the trailer for Black Dynamite and end up moaning a bit about Grindhouse

You can see the post right here, through the lovely green text

By the way if anyone has any comments about any of my posts, please feel free to write anything and everything in this thread!
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post #10 of 52
6/1/08 at 12:26am
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Hi, today's post is about one of my top moments in the Indiana Jones series that doesn't turn up on other lists very often.

Enjoy the thrilling tale of Indy vs The Cigarette Woman

I notice the embedded ads stretch my bio section out as of today, I don't know why that happens. My next post is very likely to be about the Marx brothers in some way. As always, please leave any comments you have right here.
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post #11 of 52
6/3/08 at 2:29am
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Hi, I just wrote up a few points briefly discussing The Cocoanuts, an early sound picture based on a popular play that also happened to be the first of the Marx Brothers movies.

If that sounds interesting, give it a wee read here
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post #12 of 52
6/4/08 at 7:42am
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Today I've started a multi-part article. It deals with the male romantic leads of Marx Brothers films. Part 1 dealing with the first two Marx films is up now.

You can read it here and please check back soon for the next part
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post #13 of 52
6/5/08 at 4:34am
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Part 2 of the article is up now and thanks to everyone who has read along so far!

You can see part 2 right here

Tomorrow is the final part, and then something completely different for the weekend.
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post #14 of 52
6/6/08 at 5:54am
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The third and last part of my article on second bananas in the Marx Brothers films is now up.

Finish off the series here, you may as well

Thanks for everyone who has been reading along! My next post will be about something other than the Marx Brothers, I'm sure!
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post #15 of 52
6/7/08 at 6:29am
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You may disagree, I'm not even sure I totally agree, but here's a post about Japanese movies like Tokyo Gore Police and Festival Programming

Here it is and feel free to disagree below
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post #16 of 52
6/7/08 at 1:38pm
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Don't you know the great Inagaki film Musashi Miyamoto?

If you don't, please read this article!

Then pretend that you always knew it!
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post #17 of 52
6/9/08 at 9:40am
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You might have seen adverts for Mongol around the internet, which is opening in a bunch of places this week. Today, I talk a little about the star Tadanobu Asano and his first directing project R246 Story, which is out now in Japan.

Have a look here to read about him and his own picture R246 Story
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post #18 of 52
6/10/08 at 7:15am
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Are you interested in what I think about what other people think about what Edward Norton thinks?

If so, you'll love this! Click away and have a wee read
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post #19 of 52
6/11/08 at 10:40am
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A week or so ago I wrote a piece about The Prisoner which mentioned in passing the upcoming remake. Well, now we know who is going to be in it!

Guess who and then click this link to see if you're right!
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post #20 of 52
6/12/08 at 10:51am
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Did you know Frank Darabont wrote a draft of the new Indiana Jones film? I have a funny feeling that you did know that. Well now that draft is out and about, and I talk about it.

Read all about it here, where I compare the two opening sequences with sparce details and lots of commentary
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post #21 of 52
6/12/08 at 11:28am
This Indiana Jones entry was really good. I don't really want to read the script, so I enjoyed reading the highlights.
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post #22 of 52
6/12/08 at 12:13pm
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Thank you very much! It's strange how the details from the Darabont script are almost spoilers for a film that was never made, even though the finished picture is all over multiplexes.
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post #23 of 52
6/12/08 at 1:26pm
It's funny, I was about to write a blog about the same thing, but you said it perfectly.

And I'm a fan of Darabont too, but when I read the script, it wasn't this grand script everyone was speaking about. To me, it was just there and if they had any sense, they could've waited another year. But like you said, it's about to make 600 million worldwide, so they did something right.

Good job. Also loved your Marx Bros. review/retrospectives. So much so that I finally plunked down the money to get the box sets.
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post #24 of 52
6/12/08 at 5:25pm
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Thanks, especially about the Marx brothers pieces, I hope you enjoy the box sets!
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post #25 of 52
6/13/08 at 3:54am
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Spike Lee doesn't just wind people up and get into arguments, he also makes quite good films!

Today I waffle about the trailer for his latest, Miracle at St Anna
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post #26 of 52
6/14/08 at 10:45am
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Invisible Target, a HK action film from the director of Who Am I and Gen X Cops, got a North American DVD release. Do male models beat people up in this movie? Do celebrities turn up on random photograph cameos?

Well now you can find out, as I've reviewed the HK DVD release.
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post #27 of 52
6/15/08 at 1:44pm
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We all know our Rashomon, our Yojimbo, our Seven Samurai, but all too little attention is paid to the early Kurosawa films. From time to time, over the next few weeks, I'm going to be talking about some of the more ignored films from Kurosawa's filmography.

Today, his fourth film, They Who Step On The Tiger's Tail. Read all about it here!
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post #28 of 52
6/16/08 at 5:37pm
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I wrote just a small note today on the sad news about Stan Winston

You can read the article here
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post #29 of 52
6/17/08 at 6:05pm
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Today I wrote about the great British war film In Which We Serve

Come read about David Lean directing Noel Coward playing a sailor
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post #30 of 52
6/18/08 at 7:32pm
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This afternoon I wrote about the underrated actor Joseph Cotten and the Hitchcock picture Shadow of a Doubt

Read the article here, with the most straightfoward title imaginable
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post #31 of 52
6/19/08 at 6:55pm
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I know nobody likes obits, and we have too many recently, but I couldn't let this one go without saying something, having just mentioned her recently.

So here are a few brief words on the passing of Cyd Charisse

My next post will be something cheerier I hope! Thanks to all the people who've been keeping up with my blog by the way, I know it's a bit dry at times, I appreciate it.
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post #32 of 52
6/20/08 at 4:54pm
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"Beat" Takeshi Kitano has a new film coming out in a couple of months, and a trailer has just been released.

Read me having a brief chat with myself about it, and his recent output
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post #33 of 52
6/21/08 at 9:47pm
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Today I'm talking about another trailer, this time the newest one for Kim Ji-woon's The Good the Bad and the Weird, which was released the other day

Click here and read me big up Lee Byung Hyun a lot
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post #34 of 52
6/22/08 at 10:43pm
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Today I just ramble a little about Monsieur Verdoux, an infamous Charlie Chaplin picture, and think of what might have been.

Click here for Chaplin, McCarthy and a little bit of Orson Welles thrown in
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post #35 of 52
6/23/08 at 5:23pm
Glad to see Kim Ji-woon get some attention around here. Sadly, I haven't seen The Foul King yet, but I've found plenty to enjoy about his other work (Bittersweet Life is wonderful).
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post #36 of 52
6/24/08 at 2:51am
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Hi Tempus, yes Bittersweet Life is excellent, maybe it'll get more attention if The Good, The Bad and The Weird becomes popular internationally which it looks like it might. It got a great reception at Cannes, apparently.

Today, I'm continuing my series of articles on Kurosawa's more ignored pictures. Last week was They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail, this week it's The Most Beautiful, a propaganda film he made in 1944.

Read all about the movie here, which featured Kurosawa's later wife
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post #37 of 52
6/24/08 at 11:01pm
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Hi everyone. Since yesterday's article about The Most Beautiful was so long, I wrote very briefly about the director's cut of Dark City today.

Did you know a directors cut was on the way? I didn't
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post #38 of 52
6/26/08 at 6:29am
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Today I went to see Mr. Edward Norton be an incredible hulk, and wrote up some small impressions

You can read what I thought of the film right here
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post #39 of 52
6/27/08 at 8:01pm
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Hi everyone, this afternoon I thought I'd write up a little piece about Machibuse, also known as Ambush at Blood Pass, a movie in which Toshiro Mifune seems to play his character from Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

Read all about this film, which also stars Zatoichi himself Shintaro Katsu, by clicking here
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post #40 of 52
6/30/08 at 8:13pm
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Today I have a fine old moan about the trailer for Quantum of Solace

Click through to hear how this trailer hates my eyes
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post #41 of 52
7/2/08 at 11:12pm
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If you'd like to know more about the lost Marx brothers movie Humor Risk which Devin briefly mentioned today then...

Have a wee click right here for a few of the scantly details we know about it
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post #42 of 52
7/3/08 at 9:59pm
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I'm quite fond of old John Woo, though he hasn't made a film in 5 years, and hasn't made a good one in about 15. All that might change though, with his new Chinese film Red Cliff

Read my impressions of all the footage to date of Red Cliff, which comes out in China next week
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post #43 of 52
7/5/08 at 6:44pm
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Oh my goodness. The Happening is a remarkable film for all the wrong reasons.

You can read some of those reasons right here in today's article
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post #44 of 52
7/7/08 at 8:31pm
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I also happened to watch Hancock, in which Will Smith plays the least convincing drunk I've ever seen outside of a house party full of 15 year olds.

Click right here to read my impressions of a film which is...well it's better than The Happening anyway
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post #45 of 52
7/12/08 at 3:59am
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Today I review L: Change The World, a Japanese blockbuster spin off from the hugely successful Death Note movie series.

The review contains some spoilers, but I won't spoil what I think of the movie here! Hoho! Give it a click
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post #46 of 52
7/17/08 at 6:35pm
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My article today is about the trailer for Watchmen which was put online today by Empire Magazine

Insert some kind of watching the watchmen pun around here yourself I suppose, eh?
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post #47 of 52
7/18/08 at 10:42pm
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Today I'm giving my brief impressions of The Dark Knight, maybe a bit more tempered than some I saw on Rotten Tomatoes because I don't want to make a shrine to Christopher Nolan out of my own teeth.

Read my general impressions about the adventures of Batman and his crime fighting pals right here
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post #48 of 52
7/28/08 at 8:43pm
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A Japanese director has remade Seven Samurai, and thought the best way to screen it was on a gambling machine.

And actually, I think that he is probably right...
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post #49 of 52
7/29/08 at 9:10pm
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I finally caught Hellboy 2 and got a good giggle out of a moment toward the end of the film.

Have a brief read at the location change that caught me a little off guard
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post #50 of 52
8/6/08 at 5:06am
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I started to write about The Thin Man and ended up writing about The Thin Man Goes Home

If you love good films, Bogart and Powell and hate fascism and Hitler, you owe it to yourself to read this stuff...perhaps
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