Reviews by Gator MacReady

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  3 Degrees Colder (2005)

  Review preview for 3 Degrees Colder

  It's crud like this that gives foreign language films a bad reputation with the average moviegoer.

  Five years after disappearing, a young man returns to disrupt the lives of those who knew him.
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  The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

  Review preview for The 40 Year Old Virgin

  The film gets an impressive amount of mileage and you never really feel like it's dragging.

  American Pie for grown ups.
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  Aliens (1986)

  Review preview for Aliens

  To think that Ridley Scott provoked so much tension and dread from just one is strange. When they are all over you, it makes for a superior sequel.

  Ripley is back in another alien-killing spree.
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  Alien Vs Predator (2004)

  Review preview for Alien Vs Predator

  The AVP movie plays like a live action version of an AVP Saturday morning animated show from the Eighties.

  Alien vs Predator, with man in the middle.
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  Aloha, Scooby-Doo (2005)

  The animated Mystery Inc gang go to Hawaii and become mixed up in a volcanic kidnapping.
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  Anaconda (1997)

  Review preview for Anaconda

  How can you refuse a movie that offers a POV shot of inside a snake's belly?

  Jennifer Lopez and assorted B-list actors are attacked by a giant snake in the Amazon rain forest.
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  Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004)

  Review preview for Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid

  Incredibly dumb and unnecessary it may be, but Anacondas is easy, inoffensive entertainment.

  A group of scientists encounter a hostile batch of serpents as they plunge into the jungles of Borneo on a research expedition.
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  Airwolf: Season 1 (1984)

  The adventures of a big, black, heavily armed chopper.
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  The Amityville Horror (2005)

  Review preview for The Amityville Horror

  Too bad nothing really happens in this film.

  Remake of axe-wielding angry dad in true-life adaptation of horror in haunted house.
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  Arahan (2004)

  Review preview for Arahan

  Very funny and very exciting.

  Comedy chop-socky with serious martial arts moves from South Korea.
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  Baader (2002)

  Review preview for Baader

  Don't expect anything new, or original.

  German jailbird lashes out at society with a series of uninteresting attacks and confusing exploits.
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  Battle In Heaven (2005)

  An ugly taxi driver and the prostitute daughter of a general go at it and at it and (yawn).
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  Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

  Review preview for Basic Instinct 2

  Catherine Tramell is a great character and Stone pulls it off perfectly.

  Sharon Stone reprises her role as sexy author with possible murderous streak.
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  Be Cool (2005)

  Sequel to Get Shorty moves into the music business.
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  The Business (2005)

  Review preview for The Business

  The actual "business" part of the film only lasts 10 minutes and there's no huge insight into what they're doing.

  In the mid-80s a young man falls foul of a gangster and is sent to take money to an ex-con in Spain, who invites him to join his team.
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  Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

  Owen Wilson is shot down in Bosnian Serb territory and Gene Hackman tries to rescue him.
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  The Castle Of Cagliostro (1979)

  The extraordinary adventures of a gentleman thief, as conceived by an anime master.
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  Cellular (2004)

  Review preview for Cellular

  Director David Ellis races through the far-fetched plot without looking back and keeps everything fast-paced and exciting

  Abducted teacher makes contact with outside world through radio waves.
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  Conan The Barbarian (1981)

  Review preview for Conan The Barbarian

  There really is only one person in the world who could play Conan, as sympathetic and brutal as he is, and Arnie definitely pulls it off.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a muscle-bound brute in the days of sword and sorcery.
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  Choses Secrètes (2002)

  Sexual politics in the office.
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  The Chronicles Of Riddick: Director's Cut (2004)

  Review preview for The Chronicles Of Riddick: Director's Cut

  The Director's Cut, as expected, beefs up the storyline with more established characters and small scenes to make sense of previously disorientating sub-plots.

  David Twohy beefs up his sci-fi fantasy and makes it less disorientating.
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  Clerks II (2006)

  The clerks start life anew in another miserable retail job.
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  Criminal (2004)

  A couple of professional scam merchants come up with the ultimate con trick.
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  Cursed (2005)

  A werewolf on Muholland Drive has a feast on human road kill.
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  Daredevil - Director's Cut (2003)

  Review preview for Daredevil - Director's Cut

  Anonymously directed, mechanical and unsurprising and is aimed at the indiscriminate lowest common denominator.

  A longer version, with additional sub plots, to the blind superhero movie.
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  Die Hard (1988)

  Review preview for Die Hard

  A cool, classic and creative action picture.

  Bruce Willis is a lone cop in an office skyscraper, taken over by terrorists.
• Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)

  Review preview for Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

  Their acting and comic timing is met with clockwork precision.

  This Dumb And Dumber prequel has Harry and Lloyd exposing corruption at high school.
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  Dear Pillow (2004)

  Review preview for Dear Pillow

  Darkly, grimly funny in places.

  The adventures of a sex starved 17-year-old porn mag abuser.
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  The Decameron (1971)

  Review preview for The Decameron

  A film that is only good because everyone else says it is.

  Ten different stories of 14th century Italy loosely interwoven.
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  Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection (1990)

  Review preview for Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection

  Plot holes, illogical moments and a general feel of immaturity bog it down.

  Chuck Norris goes into Columbia to save the world from a drug lord from hell.
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  Demi-Tarif (2003)

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  Isild Le Besco lets this film meander in repetitive and unrealistic ways.

  Abandoned kids scam a life of shoplifting, scamming restaurants and eating junk.
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  The Devil's Rejects (2005)

  Review preview for The Devil's Rejects

  The Devil's Rejects is not primarily a horror flick. It's a gritty, grotty, rustic, action/revenge thriller.

  Gritty, grotty, rustic sequel to House Of 1000 Corpses.
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  Dogtown And Z-Boys (2000)

  Absorbing documentary about the birth of modern skateboarding, told by those who were there.
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  Dominion (2004)

  Review preview for Dominion

  Long-winded, overwrought and totally without a climax.

  Before The Exorcist came the demon Pazuzu.
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  Echelon The Secret Power (2003)

  Review preview for Echelon The Secret Power

  There is barely five minutes worth of things to say in this seemingly never-ending twaddle.

  Mockumentary on the workings of a global information-gathering organisation.
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  Ed Wood (1994)

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  Alternately hilarious and touching.

  Biopic of 'the worst director of all time'.
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  Event Horizon (1997)

  Review preview for Event Horizon

  Way too inspired for the end result to be intentional.

  Deep space rescue mission crew are tormented by evil from another dimension.
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  The Evil Dead (1981)

  Review preview for The Evil Dead

  It's not a classic. Not yet.

  Five students unwittingly unleash flesh-possessing demons in a cabin, in the woods.
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  Evil Dead 2 - Dead By Dawn (1987)

  Review preview for Evil Dead 2 - Dead By Dawn

  Very little of this makes sense and none of it is scary.

  Sam Raimi returns to the shed in the forest where evil spirits cause unspeakable mayhem.
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  Executive Decision (1996)

  Review preview for Executive Decision

  It's highly intense, superbly photographed and expertly edited entertainment.

  A counter-terrorist agent tries to disarm extremist plane-hijackers
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  Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

  Review preview for Eight Legged Freaks

  Handles the far-fetched hokum very well and with a constant sense of humour.

  Small town in Arizona under attack from giant spiders.
• Exit Wounds (2001)

  A maverick cop joins forces with drug lord to expose corruption in the police force.
• Family Guy: Season 1 (1999)

  TV animated series about a strange family that make The Simpsons look positively normal
• Family Guy: Season 2 (2000)
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  The Federation Of Black Cowboys (2003)

  Review preview for The Federation Of Black Cowboys

  Sadly, there are no barfights, bank robberies or jailbreaks in this 'un.

  Documentary about black cowboys in Brooklyn.
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  Ferpect Crime (2004)

  An accidental killing leads to funny consequences of a psychotic nature.
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  Frailty (2001)

  Review preview for Frailty

  Instead of being driven by effects and action, Frailty holds your attention with utter disbelief. You can accept what is happening, but do you want to?

  Bill Paxton’s kids think he’s gone nutzo in religious thriller about a serial axe murderer.
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  The Fog (2005)

  Review preview for The Fog

  I had grown a beard by the time anything the slightest bit interesting began to happen.

  Fog wafts over a small town bringing revenge with it.
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  Freddy vs Jason (2003)

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  Freddy vs Jason is the battle you've been waiting to see and, boy, does it raise the bar on excitement!

  Freddy Krueger from Elm Street fights Jason Voorhees from Friday The 13th in hell.
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  Friday The 13th: Part 3 (1982)

  Review preview for Friday The 13th: Part 3

  Has a lighter tone and different feel from the others.

  A teenage adventure yarn, masquerading as a horror flick, with hillbilly Jason doing the honours.