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When “Captain America: The First Avenger” burst onto blockbustin’ movie screens this summer, someone over at MGM’s video division took notice and finally put the abortion that was 1993’s “Captain America”.

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I’ve now seen three movies from Japan’s crazy cinematic crew known as Sushi Typhoon: “Karate-Robo Zaborgar,” which I loved; “Alien vs. Ninja,” which I hated; and now “Helldriver,” which falls somewhere in between.

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Four years after his long run on TV’s “Sea Hunt” ended, Lloyd Bridges was back in the water for 1966’s big-screen adventure “Around the World Under the Sea,” but IN COLOR!

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Part costume drama, part fantasy, part mystery, part action and all imaginative, "Detective Dee & The Mystery of the Phantom Flame" marks a return to form for master director Tsui Hark, who helped popularize Hong Kong films in the Western hemisphere in the 1990s with the likes of the "Once Upon a Time in China" series and the Jackie Chan vehicle "Twin Dragons," but has weathered a string of more recent misses in "Zu Warriors," "Black Mask 2" and collaborations with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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Leave it to the Internet to resurrect the moribund franchise known as — all together now — "Mortal Kombat"! After the blockbuster video game spawned back-to-back hit feature films, it was safe to assume a third was on the way, but it never came.

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While this new "Conan the Barbarian" is an origin story, it is not really a remake of the 1981 "Conan the Barbarian" that helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name. No camel-punching. No Wheel of Pain. No hearing the lamentation of women.

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From all the hoopla in 1986 when Sigourney Weaver landed a Best Actress Oscar nomination for “Aliens,” you’d think she was the first woman to kick into action mode on film, but babes were badass long before that.

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Why won't anyone believe poor detective Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins, "Halloween III: Season of the Witch") that the recent nighttime slayings around New York City are the work of a cop?

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When did 1990's "I Come in Peace" become "Dark Angel"? More importantly, why? Did some porno cop its title? Now people will confuse it with that one TV series Jessica Alba did for James Cameron before she became a movie star.

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“Bunraku” gets its name from a form of traditional Japanese puppetry, but it may as well be called “Cowboys and Samurai” or something equally generic. The sophomore effort of director Guy Moshe raises hopes for something special in its animated opening credits, which depict violence throughout civilization, but there’s simply too much going on here for a rather simple revenge story.

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Almost 20 years later, "The Crow" still flies high. New to Blu-ray, the 1994 hit holds up well, if not plays better than it ever had. After all, much like its supernatural protagonist, the theme of revenge never dies.

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Parkour was hot half a decade ago (remember "Casino Royale"? "District B13"? That one episode of "The Office"?), but no one told the filmmakers behind the new "Freerunner."

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Warner Premiere's latest DC Universe original animated film, "Batman: Year One," adapts Frank Miller’s acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. The movie isn't as good, naturally, and part of that is because this barely qualifies as a feature. It's been shoehorned into an hour.

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A major influence on Edgar Wright's "Hot Fuzz," 1974's "The Super Cops" fictionalizes the almost impossibly effective police work of then-real-life NYPD detectives Dave Greenberg (he of the red Batman-logo ring tee) and Robert Hantz, first seen as themselves via vintage news footage.

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Bangkok, Oriental city. And the city don’t know what the city is getting. In the slick “BKO: Bangkok Knockout,” that’s a ruff-em’-tuff-em’ rumble involving a fight club named Fight Club getting to do what it does best: fight!