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  Hawa 2003

  ★★½ Watched 03 Oct 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Hawa is a 2003 Bollywood movie that has plenty of influences — well, outright things to steal — and got a review that said, “Self-respecting moviegoers looking for quality film rather than shameful sexual exploitation should steer far clear of this compost.”

  I mean, a movie with shots cribbed from Poltergeist and a plot so close to The Entity that it even copies its sound design? Was this made for me?

  Sanjana (Tabu) is a divorcee who can’t afford to…

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  A Bear Called Arthur 1992

  ★★ Watched 03 Oct 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  In the interview with Sergio Martino on the All the Colors of Giallo blu ray from Severin, he mentions that he only lost money on one movie.

  This is that movie.

  I watched Un orso chiamato Arturo as it was meant to be seen. On a YouTube link with a Rai Movie HD logo in the upper right corner, in Italian with no English subtitles and with someone else yelling translated Russian dialogue over the existing soundtrack.

  George Segal was…

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  The Timekeepers of Eternity 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The Langoliers may be at the bottom of Stephen King adaptions, but if The Timekeepers of Eternity has any say in things, we’ve been misjudging Tom Holland’s 1995 TV miniseries.

  Animator Aristotelis Maragkos has printed every frame of that movie and used collage animation to reconstruct, remix and retell the story in an entirely new way, compressing 180 minutes into 64 and taking Bronson Pinchot’s character of Craig Toomey and making him the lead character and not the villain.

  Much…

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  Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Jun 2018 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Zombi 2 has nothing to do with Dawn of the Dead, which was re-edited by co-producer Dario Argento, rescored by Goblin and released in Italy as Zombi. It was a huge success and nothing succeeds like more, more and more. As Italian copyright law allows any film to be marketed as a sequel to another work, producer Fabrizio De Angelis quickly decided that it was time to make that sequel.

  Originally, Enzo G. Castellari (1990: The Bronx Warriors, Warriors of the…