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Shane Burridge

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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?
Favorites:: 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
Publications:: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 271

Location:: China

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen (Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster) (1964)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 6, 2011
—	——	Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (2002)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 4, 2011
	86%	Runaway Train (1985)	" 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 Posted Sep 1, 2009
—	63%	The Land of College Prophets (2005)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 3, 2009
	100%	Sita Sings the Blues (2008)	" 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 Posted Mar 8, 2009
	83%	Phase IV (Phase Four) (1974)	" Should forever dispel anyone's image of ants as little black dots" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Feb 27, 2009
	——	Lost Horizon (1973)	" At the moment the characters descend into the valley of Shangri-La, the film, in unconscious critical mimicry, goes downhill" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 25, 2009
	94%	The Fly (1958)	" A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Dec 5, 2008
—	21%	The Hitcher (2007)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Oct 18, 2008
	78%	Twins of Evil ()	" Even though time has since separated the film from its Playboy gimmick, TWINS still has a campy feel to it" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Oct 6, 2008
	39%	Speed Racer (2008)	" 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 Posted Aug 22, 2008
	——	The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)	" You still can't get any closer to a bug" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Aug 22, 2008
	58%	Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)	" WICKED needs to be viewed as a different kind of film" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Aug 4, 2008
	——	The 27th Day (1957)	" Smart enough to keep you watching and earn your forgiveness for clunky moments along the way" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jun 14, 2008
	——	International Guerillas ()	" Everybody would be easier to tell apart if they didn't all have the same mustache" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted May 22, 2008
	83%	Grindhouse (2007)	" 3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 8, 2008
	——	Fukkatsu no hi (Day of Resurrection) (The End) (Virus) (1980)	" There's no short way to document the end of the world" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Mar 12, 2008
	77%	Cloverfield (2008)	" Follow(s) Joe Bob Briggs' "first rule of drive-in moviemaking"" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Feb 21, 2008
	11%	Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)	" 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 Posted Jan 20, 2008
	——	Blue Lagoon ()	" 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 Posted Dec 28, 2007
	100%	Writer Named Phil Hall ()	" [capsule]" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Dec 27, 2007
	27%	I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)	" The budgets of [Wood's] own efforts would have been splurged within the first minute of DIED's title credits" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Nov 14, 2007
	——	Juggernaut (1974)	" If you show a ticking bomb, then you'd better blow something up with it" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Oct 11, 2007
	——	Inserts (1975)	" A new twist on the usual affection for the 20s-30s that cinema-goers were accustomed to" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Sep 7, 2007
	81%	Flash Gordon (1980)	" About the only thing that isn't red in this movie is the blood" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jul 4, 2007
	62%	Jabberwocky (2001)	" 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 Posted Jul 2, 2007
	83%	Death Takes a Holiday (1934)	" Death...as a house guest that can't be gotten rid of" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jun 13, 2007
	50%	The Trial of Billy Jack (2000)	" I defy anyone not to hit the fast-forward button any time a character picks up a guitar" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jun 12, 2007
	——	Sammy Going South (A Boy Ten Feet Tall) (1965)	" The concept of walking from one place to another is the simplest in the world - so why not do it?" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jun 9, 2007
	81%	Hell's Angels (1930)	" The two spectacular set pieces are as much the audience's reason for viewing the film as it was Hughes' reason to make it" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted May 22, 2007
	——	Maidstone ()	" Will the real Norman Mailer please shut up?" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 7, 2007
	63%	The Goonies (1985)	" You'll feel more like you were on a theme park ride than at a movie" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Mar 22, 2007
	——	J-Men Forever ()	" Media hijacking works best in small doses" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Feb 14, 2007
	78%	Overnight (2004)	" For Duffy, watching this film must be like seeing a scab peeled off" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Dec 17, 2006
	86%	Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)	" If 12-year old boys had money, Tucker would have made a million overnight" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Nov 28, 2006
	——	Tintin and Me ()	" Tintinphiles will be captivated." — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Nov 1, 2006
	——	Evil Roy Slade (1972)	" John Astin's performance ... has secured EVIL ROY SLADE a place in many viewers' hearts" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Oct 16, 2006
	——	Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea ()	" The irresistibly cheesy music makes it seem like Sci-Fi for lounge lizards." — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Sep 27, 2006
	——	Nihon chinbotsu (The Sinking of Japan) (2006)	" Western audiences only ever saw a truncated version marketed by Roger Corman's New World Studios, which edited the film with a hacksaw" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Sep 2, 2006
	——	1984 (1956)	" There is a kind of glum, low-rent fatality to the production that suggests oppression through attrition" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Aug 24, 2006
	60%	Mystery Men (1999)	" The Just-Us League of America" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jul 6, 2006
	86%	Forbidden Zone (1982)	" Patently the only film of its kind that could give a home to its nutso musical numbers" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jun 13, 2006
	——	Chained for Life (1951) (2005)	" Stake[s] out supposedly serious territory to justify our own morbid fascination in the subject" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted May 23, 2006
	——	Ocean Waves ()	" Simple is nice" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 25, 2006
	22%	The Gumball Rally (1976)	" The cars are the stars" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Apr 25, 2006
	93%	Grizzly Man (2005)	" Makes us feel like kids at a Punch and Judy show wanting to shout out "Behind you!"" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Mar 1, 2006
	79%	A Zed and Two Noughts (1990)	" Another exercise in cataloguing, another elaborate death ritual, and another story inhabited with fixation" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 25, 2006
	84%	King Kong (2005)	" Warning. Flashback and long personal reminiscence ahead." — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Dec 18, 2005
	88%	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)	" The first Potter film to improve on the book" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Dec 5, 2005

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