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  • Shanghai Surprise Shanghai Surprise

    Jul 11, 2007

    A fan commentary suggests that with fans like these a movies doesn't really need detractors.

  • thin ice Thin Ice

    Oct 09, 2006

    Return to arctic action, Intellivision style.

  • Chiller Chiller

    Nov 30, 2005

    Guns and gore dominate an envelope-pushing 1986 game.

  • Playing For Keeps Playing For Keeps

    Nov 03, 2004

    Tagline: "It's what you need to succeed." Plot: A recent New York high-school graduate inherits a rundown...

  • Las Vegas Weekend Las Vegas Weekend

    Mar 03, 2004

    For games of chance to succeed, they have to be unbeatable. Standbys like poker and blackjack remain popular casino moneymaking ventures because...

  • The Check Is In The Mail The Check Is In The Mail

    Feb 25, 2004

    Is he an American with a dream gone sour, or just another angry, paranoid manic-depressive possessed by a demon?" a smiling reporter asks his...

  • Born American Born American

    Jan 28, 2004

    In Born American, a drunken, heavily armed jaunt through barbed wire to the Soviet Union inexplicably goes awry for three American...

  • Wired To Kill Wired To Kill

    Sep 10, 2003

    For the ordinary citizen in 1998, the only art is the art of survival," the opening crawl for 1986's not-so-prescient Wired To Kill informs...

  • Hands Of Steel Hands Of Steel

    Jul 09, 2003

    Just how bad is the post-apocalyptic future of Hands Of Steel? So bad that a candidate can run for office under the slogan "You have no...

  • Ghost Warrior Ghost Warrior

    Jun 18, 2003

    Perhaps the only film ever to bill itself as coming from "the timewarp tradition of Iceman," Ghost Warrior opens on a scene in 1550s Japan,...