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Recent reviews

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  Xenogenesis 1978

  Watched 03 Jun 2023

  Looks like it was made for 100 bucks (complimentary). Dig that Cameron reused the opening credits font and HK design for Terminator.

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  Raging Fire 2021

  ★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2023

  Way too slick looking in that modern Chinese blockbuster kind of way, and at two hours there’s a bunch of unnecessary plot. But the action is solid - fairly nasty and mostly well-shot, probably the best throwback to classic HK heroic bloodshed stuff that we’re going to get these days.

Popular reviews

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  Mindhunters 2004

  ★★★ Rewatched 14 Jun 2013

  'I guess we figured out his weakness. Bullets.'

  Bless you LL Cool J.

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jun 2022 4

  Talkin’ Cronenberg over at InRO:

  Our great mad scientist of orifice horror has returned after a long absence, and brought some of his old tricks with him. It’s been 8 years since David Cronenberg’s last feature film, the unfairly maligned Maps to the Stars; difficulties finding funding and a scuttled streaming project suggested the very real possibility of a forced retirement. Thankfully, this proved to be only a hiatus, and Cronenberg’s new Crimes of the Future finds him overflowing with…