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Shane Burridge

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Biography:

New Zealander with UK citizenship, went to university in Surfers Paradise, Australia (don’t laugh, they have one there), swam with dolphins in the South Island, rafted 200 miles through the Grand Canyon, traveled by dogsled across the Canadian arctic, hiked through the Indian Himalayas, worked three years in mainland China, lived in Japan a couple of years with a robot dog, and now getting by in Beijing (before, during, and after the Olympics). None of this has anything to do with film reviewing, but it makes a durn good bio, don’t it?

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The Ten Most Influential Movies on My Once-Impressionable Mind: 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. The Boy Friend 3. Romeo and Juliet (1968) 4. Dawn of the Dead (1978) 5. Catch-22 6. A High Wind in Jamaica 7. The Shining 8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 10. Empire of the Sun

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Location:

China

Reviews

Movies 온라인카지노추천 Shows
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) 89% “Riefenstahl's attachment to the project...ensured that the film of the event would not escape being viewed as a propaganda piece” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Apr 9, 2021 Full Review Runaway Train (1985) 83% “While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled it” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Sep 1, 2009 Full Review Sita Sings the Blues (2008) 100% “Avoids becoming pretentious or 'artistic' through a lively sense of humour that vies with the graphic design and Hanshaw's performances as SITA's main asset” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Mar 8, 2009 Full Review Phase IV (1974) 50% “Should forever dispel anyone's image of ants as little black dots.” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Feb 27, 2009 Full Review Lost Horizon (1973) 14% “At the moment the characters descend into the valley of Shangri-La, the film, in unconscious critical mimicry, goes downhill” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jan 25, 2009 Full Review The Fly (1958) 95% “A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Dec 5, 2008 Full Review Twins of Evil (1971) 79% “Even though time has since separated the film from its Playboy gimmick, TWINS still has a campy feel to it” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Oct 6, 2008 Full Review Speed Racer (2008) 42% “The Wachowskis blur the definition of "children's film" as much as the original cartoon challenged Western perceptions of "children's television".” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Aug 22, 2008 Full Review The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) 75% “You still can't get any closer to a bug” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Aug 22, 2008 Full Review Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) 61% “WICKED needs to be viewed as a different kind of film” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Aug 4, 2008 Full Review The 27th Day (1957) 20% “Smart enough to keep you watching and earn your forgiveness for clunky moments along the way” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jun 14, 2008 Full Review International Guerillas (1990) “Everybody would be easier to tell apart if they didn't all have the same mustache” – rec.arts.movies.reviews May 22, 2008 Full Review Grindhouse (2007) 84% “3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Apr 8, 2008 Full Review Virus (1980) “There's no short way to document the end of the world” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Mar 12, 2008 Full Review Cloverfield (2008) 79% “Follow(s) Joe Bob Briggs' "first rule of drive-in moviemaking"” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Feb 21, 2008 Full Review Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) 8% “Bartlett's background as a documentary film-maker is an advantage for a film that doesn't require any actors but a liability when it comes to adapting Bach's fiction” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jan 20, 2008 Full Review The Blue Lagoon (1949) “The innocent approach to 1949's LAGOON works better when viewed as an alternative or balance to the less restricted remake.” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Dec 28, 2007 Full Review Writer Named Phil Hall (2007) 100% “[capsule]” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Dec 27, 2007 Full Review I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) 27% “The budgets of [Wood's] own efforts would have been splurged within the first minute of DIED's title credits” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Nov 14, 2007 Full Review Juggernaut (1974) 83% “If you show a ticking bomb, then you'd better blow something up with it” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Oct 11, 2007 Full Review Inserts (1975) 69% “A new twist on the usual affection for the 20s-30s that cinema-goers were accustomed to” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Sep 7, 2007 Full Review Flash Gordon (1980) 83% “About the only thing that isn't red in this movie is the blood” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jul 4, 2007 Full Review Jabberwocky (1977) 45% “The cast looks like it was recruited from a Pasolini movie, the budget-concious framing is claustrophobic, and there's way too much smoke” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jul 2, 2007 Full Review Death Takes a Holiday (1934) 88% “Death...as a house guest that can't be gotten rid of” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jun 13, 2007 Full Review The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) 36% “I defy anyone not to hit the fast-forward button any time a character picks up a guitar” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Jun 12, 2007 Full Review
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