You can pick up a lot of interesting pieces of information by watching movies – you can learn about great moments in history or about how important it is not to run upstairs when a serial killer is chasing you – but it was with the viewing of 1984’s Cannon film classic Ninja III: The…
Tag: ninja
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009) – Review
The globetrotting Scooby gang are no strangers to the Far East; they’ve faced the Dragon Beast in the episode “The Demon of the Dugout,” from the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo run, and poor Shaggy became a 30-Foot Shaggy during an episode of What’s New, Scooby-Doo? titled, “Big Appetite in Little Tokyo.” But their best Japanese adventure was…
Chappie (2015) – Review
In 2008 Neill Blomkamp was tapped by Peter Jackson to direct a Halo movie – which excited many – but when that fell through he was given money to produce his own pet project District 9 – a film that beautifully blended science fiction with apartheid – and though that film went on to be…
Ninja Scroll (1993) – Review
It was another midnight movie bacon session for me, and the choice was Ninja Scroll, a movie written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.