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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Hard Boiled

Posted on December 22, 2016 by curtisrunstedler

Yippee ki yay! ‘Tis the season for Die Hard, folks. But what’s ‘better than a dozen Die Hards’? Well, it’s John Woo’s 1992 film Hard Boiled (not a film about eggs), and this is saying a lot because the original Die Hard is one of the … Continue reading →

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Mission Impossible Retrospective Part 2

Posted on July 24, 2015 by castordurden

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 John Woo has been and will always be one of the action directors that I genuflect to. His movies are hyperkinetic extravaganzas with dollops of elegiac poetry (the dove trademark, the slow-motion theatrics, etc.). This is the … Continue reading →

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