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...zombie snoozefest.Tarantino, on the other hand, flips the genre on its head instead of blissfully sending it up, over-reaching with a pretentious brand of meta-cinema that leaves his segment a little less hyperkinetic and a lot more joyless than Rodriguez’s. It mixes a slasher film with car chases, which basically means that the film starts out being one thing but ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic stuntman (Kurt “Snake Plissken” Russell, in a piece of such inspired casting it rivals John Travolta...

Author: By Aleksandra S Stankovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grindhouse | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...personal crises--getting older, trying to break his family's cycle of dysfunction--mirror his business problem: figuring out who will lead the Mob family after him. Consigliere Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) proved unsuited to lead; protg Christopher (Michael Imperioli) is off making his low-budget Mafia-slasher movie, with a pseudo-Tony played by Daniel Baldwin. ("Imitation's a form of flattery," Tony says with a shrug. "He's a tough prick, that Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The End of the Soprano Administration | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

Forget April. January is the cruelest month for moviegoers. Nobody in the picture business is bringing forth lilies to enliven the poet's "dead land." While everyone's attention is fixed on the Oscar nominations, it's the moment for cheesy slasher epics and the reluctant release of last year's failed genre effort, movies that may mix "memory and desire" but only in the most unappetizing ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: January: A Movie Wasteland | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...junkyard-kind of game.” On defense, he is capable of guarding another offense’s playmaker and creating havoc for opposing teams by forcing turnovers that lead to fast breaks. On the other end of the court, Pusar can function as a slasher, creating open looks for the Crimson’s sharpshooters, and he can crash the boards for offensive rebounds.“My role on the team is to be a defensive stopper and a dirty work player,” Pusar says. “There’s so much offensive...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '06: Three’s a Crowd | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...Just hearing that plot precis must have given parents the cold sweats. Another slasher movie to desensitize their young sons: to demonstrate acts of self-mutilation beyond the dreams of Jackass, and teach them that the world offers only two options: kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saw Came and Conquered | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

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