Tag: Sam Raimi
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Crossover – Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) fet. Detective Steve & Jimmy teh Freak
In collaboration with Detective Steve and Jimmy teh Freak of Freak N’ Nitro TV, we review 2013’s justly-forgotten wanna-be franchise-starter, Oz the Great and Powerful. Call it Part 4 in our occasional series exploring the rise and fall of one of our favorite directors, Sam Raimi. You were the Chosen One, Sam – you were […]
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Spider-Man 3 (2007)
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Spider-Man 2 (2004)
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Spider-Man (2002)
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M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994)
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Darkman (1990) – A video supplement
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The Quick and the Dead (1995)
A lot of people rightly praise Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy, but I’ve always preferred his…”more mature” feels like an obscenely inaccurate phrase, so I’ll just call them his “middle-period” pieces. Between Evil Dead 2 and Spider-Man, Raimi struggled for mainstream success, feeling – like every decent genre director in the ’80s and ’90s – […]
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Darkman (1990)
Things may be different in Japan, but over here in the USA only a bare handful of superheroes were born in movieland. Most come out of comic books, something that astonished me back in 1990 and still astonishes today. You’d think superheroes and the motion picture would go together like peanut butter and a consenting […]