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Mel Valentin

San Francisco

Film Critic and Content Editor at Freelance

Contributor at ScreenAnarchy

Writer-for-hire: Cinapse, Screen Anarchy, That Shelf. 🍅meter-approved critic. Member: SFBAFCC, OFCS. He/Him. Progressive. #LGBTQ+ Ally #ReproRights

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  • KARATE KID: LEGENDS Review: Old-School Formula Reworked for the 21st Century

    1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Mel Valentin

    The 1980s were a veritable Golden Age for fans of The Karate Kid franchise. Starting in 1984 with the John G. Avildsen-directed The Karate Kid, the loose trilogy took Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), a lifelong underdog and first-time martial artist, and his Japanese-American mentor, Nariyoshi Keisuke Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita), into a series of life-affirming lessons, occasional romances, and periodic hand-to-elbow-to-foot combat, mostly in local tournaments, for fame and glory.

  • Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Review: Tom Cruise Saves Cinema and the World (Again)

    2 weeks ago | thatshelf.com | Mel Valentin

    If there was a Hall Fame for Stunt Work (there isn’t, but there should be), they’d have to set aside an entire wing to the 30-year-old Mission: Impossible series headlined by Tom Cruise. Across seven, now eight films, including the latest, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, each entry would contribute at least one, sometimes two or three stunt-heavy set pieces.

  • BRING HER BACK Review: The Philippou Brothers Deliver Another Masterclass in Horror

    2 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Mel Valentin

    Horror sells. As a standalone genre, horror stands out for its relatively low cost and high yield box office-returns wise. It’s often the gateway genre for first-time filmmakers, hoping to make a brand name for themselves by producing a horror entry that resonates sufficiently with genre audiences to return the original investment 10-, 15-, or even 20-fold. That alone explains the glut of horror, most of it disposable, if competently made, and thus forgettable by year’s end (if not sooner).

  • Final Destination: Bloodlines Review: The Sixth Time Definitely Isn't the Charm

    3 weeks ago | thatshelf.com | Mel Valentin

    There are few certainties in life: death, taxes, and studio-mandated franchise reboots, remakes, or sequels. The first and the third apply to Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth entry in a series that began with a one-off entry twenty-five years ago and continued across five entries and 11 years.

  • THE SURFER Gives Audiences One of Nicolas Cage’s Best Performance in Years

    1 month ago | cinapse.co | Mel Valentin

    For the unnamed central character played by Oscar winner Nicolas Cage in director Lorcan Finnegan’s (Nocebo, Vivarium, Without Name) latest film, The Surfer, nostalgia doubles as prison and poison.

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