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  • The Karate Kid Part II

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    Movies don’t get much more 80s than this: a silly and simple story, a Peter Cetera power ballad, and it’s a sequel. It’s fun to watch though. The setting for this one was Okinawa, and to me it does look like they actually shot it there — and all the extras do seem to be…

  • The Delta Force

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    This is such a weird movie. You go in expecting a typical Cannon actioner, but then not only is it quite long, you can tell that director Menahem Golan was actually trying to say something here, and although I wouldn’t go so far as saying it goes into drama territory, it does take quite a…

  • Crocodile Dundee

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    Just like The Golden Child, this is a comedy from back then that I’m sure I watched quite a few times. Sure, it’s a silly film, but I found it to have aged decently (except for the homophobic humor, which you do see pop up uncomfortably in a lot of 80s movies) and had a…

  • The Golden Child

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    This movie was never considered an Eddie Murphy classic, but I’m pretty sure I loved it a lot when I was a kid — re-watching it, I was surprised by how many of the lines sounded so familiar, which probably means I watched it quite a few times back then. But it’s not really a…

  • Game of Thrones (Season 7)

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    Here we are, the 7th (and shorter) season. Two episodes in, we still haven’t gotten to the meat of things, but it’s off to a decent start, after a pretty quiet first episode (but with the delicious Ariya revenge scene at the start), and then a second episode that puts things in motion (naval battle,…

  • Punisher: War Zone

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    I haven’t really thought about this movie since watching it when it originally came out (close to 10 years ago), but reading a profile of its director Lexi Alexander in the latest issue of Wired made me want to give it another look. I do remember liking it, and after a re-watch, I can still…

  • Blame

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    I was quite looking forward to watching this film. I’ve never read the manga series it’s based on, but I quite like the stuff that Polygon Pictures has worked on of late (Knights of Sidonia, Ajin), and I really dig the cel-shaded CG they produce. I did quite like the visuals, but I somehow never…

  • Sayaka Ishiyama

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    State of Tokyo has a new interview up, this time with manga creator Sayaka Ishiyama. As with all the pieces that go up on the site, it’s photo heavy, and gives you a nice look at Ishiyama-san working on her illustrations.