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Posted by DVD Verdict on 05/18/06 08:20
Today, DVD Verdict posted reviews of DARKNESS: THE VAMPIRE EDITION, DEAD
BROKE, GRANDMA'S BOY, THE HEROIN BUSTERS, NAKED AMONG WOLVES, SNOOPY,
COME HOME, SOUTH FROM GRANADA, STREET LAW, and UPRESSPLAY VOLUME 2:
DARKNESS: THE VAMPIRE EDITION (reviewed by Brett Cullum, overall
score 85/100):
"Had it been twenty years earlier, Jonker may have been mentioned in the
same breath as Romero or Carpenter. The film was made for ten thousand
dollars. Judging from the amount of gore, $9,990 of that paltry sum was
spent on red goo."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/darkness.php
DEAD BROKE (reviewed by Bill Gibron, overall score 80/100):
"Though it's cinematically sloppy and stumbles getting to its final act
denouement, Dead Broke is something quite rare in the world of post-
modern moviemaking -- a straight-ahead murder mystery. You know the kind
-- a crime (usually murder), a series of suspects, and a shrewd
detective who has the internal fortitude, both mentally and physically,
to figure it all out."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/deadbroke.php
GRANDMA'S BOY (reviewed by Brett Cullum, overall score 80/100):
"Guilty of being a completely unoriginal marriage of Dude, Where's My
Car and The Golden Girls. You'll laugh, but you won't respect yourself
in the morning."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/grandmasboy.php
THE HEROIN BUSTERS (reviewed by Rob Lineberger, overall score 93/100):
"Grifters, addicts, mobsters, and cops swirl around each other in a dark
dance set against a backdrop of neon and cold pavement."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/heroinbusters.php
NAKED AMONG WOLVES (reviewed by Steve Evans, overall score 90/100):
"The horrors of the Holocaust have scarcely faded 60 years on. But when
this film was released in 1963, barely 18 years after the war, the
experience of seeing it must have burned like fire in an open wound."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/nakedamongwolves.php
SNOOPY, COME HOME (reviewed by Geoffrey Miller, overall score 79/100):
"As a product of the times, Snoopy, Come Home is markedly different
from the first Peanuts theatrical outing, A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
In some ways it's a refreshing change of pace; in others it's an
awkward misstep."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/snoopycomehome.php
SOUTH FROM GRANADA (reviewed by Russell Engebretson, overall
score 78/100):
" I don't feel a need to empathize with the star of a movie; sometimes
the main character is meant to be repellant or unlovable. What I find
bothersome here is that Brenan's choices, although they smack of
egocentric manipulation, are bathed in a whimsical and nostalgic glow."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/southfromgranada.php
STREET LAW (reviewed by Steve Evans, overall score 80/100):
"Castellari's film plays more like a spaghetti western (especially
during the climactic showdown in a factory) than a tale of urban
vigilantism. But it is one hyper-kinetic piece of filmmaking when
characters aren't pontificating about what happened, what should happen,
and what almost certainly never will."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/streetlaw.php
UPRESSPLAY VOLUME 2 (reviewed by Bill Gibron, overall score 78/100):
"It is important to note that Jack-of-all-cinematic-trades Daniel J.
Pico directs four of the entries here (Limbo, Roscoe Village, Reality,
and Soldier) and his imprint really improves Volume 2."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/upressplayvol2.php
Mike Jackson
Editor & Webmaster, DVD Verdict
www.dvdverdict.com
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