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Rod Lott
“Hobo with a Shotgun” started as a joke — specifically, as the winner of a fake trailer contest to promote the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez collaboration “Grindhouse.” For some reason, it follows “Machete,” the first faux coming attraction in “Grindhouse,” to a full-fledged feature.

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Rod Lott
Here's what I knew about the video game "Tekken" before watching the film it now has spawned: "Tekken" is a video game; I think it involves fighting.

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Rod Lott
With "Sucker Punch," few in-betweeners exist. You either like it or you hate it with a fury of a thousand suns.

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Rod Lott
If only my dad were a fan of superhero movies, his Father's Day gift would be a no-brainer: "The Superman Motion Picture Anthology: 1978-2006."

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Rod Lott
Your first sign that "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen" is not a mass-audience crowd-pleaser is that most moviegoers — even those who thrive on action — would ask, "Who the hell is Chen Zhen?"

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Rod Lott
What do 1973’s “Gordon’s War” and 1988’s “Off Limits” have to do with one another?

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Rod Lott
Australian strongman Nathan Jones graduates from small roles in "Troy,” "The Condemned" and especially “The Protector” to a starring one in "Muay Thai Giant," a 2008 Thai effort that plays like an odd mix of "Drunken Master," "Popeye," "The Pacifier" and TV's "Top Chef."

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Rod Lott
As aggressive as its name implies, "Drive Angry" is so deliriously over-the-top, I can't help but love it.

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Rod Lott
Whether “The Transporter” or now “The Mechanic,” Jason Statham has one job in Hollywood, but he does it quite well: being cinema’s most reliable action star of the 21st century.

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Rod Lott
Before he was Oscar bait, fresh-faced former Okie Ron Howard was a child actor with directorial dreams.

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Rod Lott
I miss Andy Sidaris.

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Rod Lott
Easily one of the best double features thus far in the “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics” series is the pairing of 1976’s “Jackson County Jail” with 1974’s “Caged Heat.”

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Rod Lott
Piggybacking off the launch of the "Mortal Kombat: Legacy" webseries is the Blu-ray release of the two films in the arcade-spawned franchise: the surprise 1995 smash and the 1997 trash that kept a third chapter from hitting the multiplex.

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Rod Lott
Buckle up, because Shout! Factory has unleashed a triple feature of carmageddon in the two-disc “Action-Packed Collection,” itself among the "Roger Corman's Cult Classics" collection.

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Rod Lott
In 10th-grade English, after we'd read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Mrs. Anderson showed us John Boorman's 1981 epic, "Excalibur," or at least the parts she could show, given its deserved R rating.