Passed along to me by JohnDoe from JDM Film Reviews, I watched Pan’s Labyrinth last night and found myself drawn into a sick, twisted world of childhood fantasies. This is the latest film from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, and has been nearly universally applauded as a fine example of Latin magical realism brought to […]
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Daughters of Darkness DVD coverLent to me by Horrorphile Bryn, Daughters of Darkness is a great example of the short lived fad in lesbian vampire movies in the 60s and 70s. Personally, I ask, why did we stop making lesbian vampire movies? Aren’t they the best kind? The term ‘lesbian vampire’ for a genre, seems
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I’ve been in the mood for classic Hollywood films lately it started with The Maltese Falcon, and I’ve been crossing them off the list, one-by-one. Naturally, I’ve seen It’s a Wonderful Life several times when I was an anklebiter. Around Christmas, it played on free TV, maybe twice or even three times in a week.
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Dave Chappelle is a manically raving lunatic who, if he was wearing a dirty trenchcoat and drinking a 40oz bottle of malt, you’d assume to be some sort of dangerous hobo. Give him a ravenous all star hiphop lineup, though, et il est le roi. He is The King. Back in 2004, Dave Chappelle was
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Last night, I had planned to follow Lias timely advice and watch Main Hoon Na on SBS, a hit Bollywood film with a cast of notable Indian actors. I couldn’t sit through the first 10 minutes. I’m pretty easily irritated and the main actor Shakruhk Khan irritates me like a grain of sand embedded in
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“Red Cliff” is the most expensive Chinese movie made to date, a two-part film depicting the famous battle at Red Cliff, when the Han Dynasty general from North China, Cao Cao, sails a massive fleet down the Yangtze River to invade the lands of Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the South. It’s directed by
George Lucas in Love is a rock ’em, sock ’em mashup of Shakespeare in Love and the life of George Lucas. It’s a short film about George Lucas’ life as a film student in California. This pre wealth George is rake, thin and nervous, still sporting the glasses and facial hair, and trying to finish
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This is a little gem of a movie, buried in the back of the drama section at the video store and forgotten. My Beautiful Laundrette is the perplexing story of a young English-Pakistani man trying to scratch out a living in Thatcher era England. His name is Omar, and it’s never really evident what he
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There’s something to be said for going to the video store with another person, they’ll be drawn to movies that you’d never otherwise take a second look at. That was certainly the case last night, when I had my tentacles locked on George Romero’s gruesome Dawn of the Dead, but my friend was drawn to
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I am always up for a good Almodovar film they’re usually funny and wildly entertaining, even while exploring dark and sombre themes. This year’s Cannes Film Festival included Almodovar’s latest film, Volver, and it won the award for Best Screenplay. Clap-clap-clap when it comes to theatres in Australia, I’ll make a point of going! Volver
