At least a decade ago, Takeshi Kitano takes on yakuza films to a whole new level with much brutal and violent ambiguity as most or Goodfellas or Godfather would make of it. From gorely and exciting death scenes, ratting out/"interrogating" with the lethal use of torture and severed fingers, other rival gangs to backstabbing other member syndicate. 

The story mainly concerns a struggle of power amongst the Yakuza today especially in a recession where businesses had been bad as rival gangs tend ...
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2011 may be considered the year that motion-picture Super Hero movies return - starting with The Green Hornet, Super, The Green Lantern,Captain America to The Avengers. We see a fair share of horrible ones in the past going from straight out corny to a horrid piece of trash. It's really hard to underestimate the risks that Marvel and DC is doing over these years whether it's spending millions to billions of dollars funding a comic book adaptation into a huge blockbuster motion...

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Skeptism is the word I use when I started watching Hanna. The premise of "cat and mouse" and a secret past can end up good or bad, whether its Bourne Identity or Salt. Hanna establishes that trend in a supernatural feel to it from director Joe Wright who directed such British flicks as Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. His career of creating highly-polished visuals and intensity of a thriller with action of the Bourne films isn't his "cup of tea". But he pulls it off like the rest of the di...
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Because I'm too lazy to even format a review in my review page:

 2007 seems to be the year of western movies – from No Country For Old Men to There Will Be Blood. To my surprise, these films aren’t bad either especially with There Will Be Blood which nabbed a number of Oscars. This movie 3:10 to Yuma is one of those movies that has a strong cast and performance, great storyline and an action-packed western to satisfy your needs.

Director James Magnolia impresses us again with creating a w...

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As I was watching Tangled, I cannot fathom some of the lessons that the original writers, The Grimm Brothers has written. The story of Rapunzel as she has been "kidnapped" by old crone, Gothel who wanted eternal beauty by Rapunzel's golden hair which has special powers. This is due to a golden flower earlier on which has the power to either make you beautiful or can heal you and Rapunzel's mother who was saved by this power and given birth to Rapunzel who has grown with this magical power of ...
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