Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  The Company You Keep

  Robert Redford

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  Call it The Expendables of the self-righteous, forgettable drama set. Call it the dour, humourless, didactic cousin of RED. Outside of glib...

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  Hong Kong Confidential

  Maris Martinsons

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  Latvian director Maris Martinsons has cracked the elusive formula for thoughtful dross. It's not as though Hong Kong Confidential, renamed...

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  Dragon [Blu-Ray]

  Peter Chen

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  Putting a classic story to good use, Peter Chen's Dragon (or Wu Axia, as it's more aptly titled in other countries) is a great example of h...

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  Iron Man: Rise of Technovore [Blu-Ray]

  Hiroshi Hamazaki

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  Marvel's relationship with anime studio Madhouse continues to produce some odd fruit. The memetic splicing of American pulp science fantasy...

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  Message From Space

  Kinji Fukasaku

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  Released in 1978, Message From Space was an obvious attempt by Japan's movie industry to cash in on the Star Wars phenomenon with a homegro...

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  A Haunted House

  Michael Tiddes

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  By no means should this low-brow spoof job be mistaken for a thoughtful comedy, but it must be acknowledged that some thought did go into i...

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  The Colony

  Jeff Renfroe

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2013

  2012 has come and gone with nary a whisper nor a bang, but our pessimistic preoccupation with doomsday scenarios born of annihilation anxie...

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  Tai Chi Hero

  Stephen Fung

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2013

  After the zany videogame- and cartoon-influenced steampunk martial arts mania of Tai Chi Zero, Tai Chi Hero has certain expectations to sur...