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Retro Review: Mad Max meets manga in the demented Fist Of The North Star

21 May 2009 11:27 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Year: 1995

Directors: Tony Randel

Writers: Peter Atkins / Tony Randel / Tetsuo Hara

IMDb: link

Amazon: link

Review by: quietearth

Rating: 5.5 out of 10

Give yourself over to the utter insanity of Tony Randel's 1995 adaptation of Fist of the North Star and you may be surprised at how much good stuff there is to be found within its otherwise questionable frames. Honestly, I've seen some wacked-out films in my time, but this movie is a truly demented hybrid of American and Japanese adventure cinema. It's like The Road Warrior (which yes I know is actually Australian) meets Ricki O! It's got sweeping post-apocalyptic vistas, marauding bands of crazy mutants and manga style kung-fu complete with exploding skulls, blood geysers and fists penetrating bodies. I may not be an expert on the manga, nor have I ever watched the anime, but I know weird-ass movies (particularly of the post-apocalyptic genre) and I can

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Tim Roth: The Hollywood Interview

6 March 2009 12:30 AM, PST | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

Actor Tim Roth

Tim Roth Is Telling No Lies

By

Alex Simon

Editor's Note: This article appears in the March issue of Venice Magazine.

One of the film world’s great chameleons, Tim Roth was born in London May 14, 1961, the son of a journalist and a school teacher. After dropping out of art school, Roth was discovered by maverick British director Alan Clarke, and cast in his incendiary 1982 study of the skinhead movement in the UK, Made in Britain. Tim Roth hasn’t stopped working since, with over 70 feature and TV roles to his credit including such iconic titles as The Hit, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent and Theo, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, and most recently, the lead in Francis Coppola’s first feature in ten years, Youth Without Youth.

Roth stepped behind the

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Nick Carter Almost Died from Drugs and Booze

6 February 2009 10:14 AM, PST | From TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide.com - Breaking News news

A sober, healthy and fit Nick Carter says his drug and alcohol addictions were once so severe that he almost died from heart disease. The Backstreet Boy was diagnosed last year with cardiomyopathy, a potentially fatal heart condition that killed Andy Gibb at age 30 and actor Chris Penn at 40.

"[I realized] I don't want to die," he tells People. "I don't want to be that person people read about and think, 'That's sad that ...

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