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Before you even start, no, this has nothing to do with Philadelphia. But when somebody offers to send me a DVD about ninjas with the word "Shinobi" in the title, how am I supposed to say no?? So here I am, reviewing Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, a 2005 Japanese film released to disc in the States last month.

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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The trailer for The Matrix, redone entirely in CGI, and recast entirely with Muppets. The CGI isn't the best (which is understandable, given that this is a student project), but the casting is excellent. Rizzo the Rat as Cypher? Brilliant! Btw, make sure to stay through to the end; there's an amusing epilogue. (Via Jill) Apropos has got some great treadmill-related links today....

First of all, to answer the question we asked in our preview, no, Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! (directed by Sonoko Kawahara, with music and concept by Fred Ho and written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff) was not the coolest show ever. It was, however, pretty enjoyable. As I mentioned in that preview, the show is a piece of martial arts dance theater inspired by the Japanese manga and movie series Lone Wolf and Cub, and tells the story of a father and his son on the run from the Shogun he once worked for. Luckily, the father is a skilled swordsman and has survived the numerous attempts to kill him. But now the Shogun, in desperation, fires his Master of Assassins and hires three super-killers from the West to finally track down his lone rogue enemy. The Master of Assassins has been training his own secret weapon, however - a beautiful young female ninja who is in fact, unbeknownst to everyone but her master, the bastard daughter of the rogue himself. Soon enough all these players will meet and fight to the death in an Armageddon of bloodshed on the road to hell!

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If there’s one thing Hollywood has taught us, and taught us repeatedly, it is never to build computers that can also blow things up. From Colossus: The Forbin Project to The Matrix, to the perennial Terminator franchise, the computers always seem to find some reason to go rogue and create plenty of expensive-looking violence. Stealth, the latest in the summer pyrotechnic sweepstakes, continues in this proud tradition, mostly by paying an entertaining homage to the whole cinematic rogues gallery of machines gone bad.