★★★ “It’s not just Harlin and Anderson that work with their spouses.” In various places, the title for this is “a Lady”or “the Lady” fighter: I’m going with what’s firmly stated on the opening credits of the print, ungrammatical as that may be. It’s a Filipino product, but unlike the… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★½ “Still a better movie than Wonder Woman 1984.“ This Taiwanese production takes place on an island where women have been separate from men for 23 generations, developing more or less your stereotypical Amazonian society. Men are rejected, male babies tossed out to see to sink or swim (typically the former)… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “And Then There Were None – with vampires” SPOILER WARNING FOR THIS REVIEW: ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE TRAILER! Trailers can do a lot of damage to a movie’s impact, and is definitely the case here. If the trailer hasn’t outright told us the idiot gangsters had kidnapped… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★½ “In Soviet Russia, sorcerers stone you…” There’s a battle in the middle of this, where the rebels and the authorities engage in a street-fight, and its absolutely beautiful to watch. Their weapons leave black smoke-trails criss-crossing, and the camera swoops and dives through the mayhem in truly lyrical fashion.… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “I am the law…” I kept moving between 2½ and 3 stars for this. It is pretty chatty, and the focus is not as much on the title character as I might have hoped. But there’s no denying that Leng (Shi) is a very solid character, and when she… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆ To be frank, I was expecting rather more action given the title here. Almost all of it, however, takes place “off-screen”, as it were, being described second-hand, rather than experienced. It makes sense in the context of the book, and it’s not badly written.… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★ “Not everything is black and white…” It’s interesting to look at the film’s IMDb page, and contrast the reviews, where there’s nothing less than an 8/10, with the rating, where 73% of votes are a 1/10. One “review” was actually a rant about other reviews which appear to have… Continue reading| Girls With Guns