Tag: Robert Rodriguez

Film review: SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For takes us once again into Frank Miller’s hyper-stylised noir fantasy world.  Adapted from Miller’s lauded graphic novel, the film mixes animation and real life action for a film that looks stunning looking but is marred by a rudimentary and often clichéd plot. Co-director’s Miller and Robert Rodriguez don’t seem to know if they

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Film review: MACHETE KILLS, from Built For Speed

With their homage to 1960’s and 70’s Mexploitation movies, grind house cinema and ultra-violent 1980’s video nasties, Robert Rodriguez Machete films should be outrageous thrill rides and  rollicking pop-cultural parodies that push the boundaries of popular taste.  Unfortunately, Machete and now its sequel Machete Kills wind up as predictable, juvenile, occasionally grotesque but emotionally inert throwaway action films.  Like Machete,

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