Boaz Yakin Archives

The Punisher (1990)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 6, 2001Comic-Book Vigilante

Dolph Lundgren's The Punisher is minus his trademark t-shirt and the film takes considerable liberties with the source material but this is a hugely entertaining action comic-book of a film with hilariously tongue-in-cheek dialogue

Director: Mark Goldblatt

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Jeroen Krabbe, Louis Gossett Jr, Kim Miyori, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 July 200118 February 2025 by Roog

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)

Rating: ★

Mar 18, 2003Bank Robbers vs Vampires

The first of two video-released sequels to From Dusk Till Dawn, this spins the premise to have a group of robbers at siege from police inside a bank vault as they are attacked by vampires

Director: Scott Spiegel

Actors: Robert Patrick, Bo Hopkins, Duane Whitaker, Raymond Cruz, …

Category: Horror

18 March 200323 October 2025 by Roog

2001 Maniacs (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 3, 2007Splatter/Southern Town of Maniacs

Eli Roth-produced remake of the Herschell Gordon Lewis splatter film Two Thousand Maniacs, this plants tongue in cheek, is fairly and squarely aimed at a frat boy audience and unapologetic about piling on copious amounts of gore and naked breasts

Director: Tim Sullivan

Actors: Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Jay Gillespie, Giuseppe Andrews, …

Category: Horror

3 November 200713 May 2025 by Roog

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

Rating: ★★

May 28, 2010Videogame Adaptation/Arabian Nights Adventure

Adaptation of the popular videogame that ventures into Arabian Nights adventure, this was a box-office flop. It swashbuckles entertainingly but Jake Gyllenhaal feels badly miscast as a buffed adventure hero

Director: Mike Newell

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, …

Category: Fantasy

28 May 201022 November 2024 by Roog