“The Thing” is john Carpenter’s 1982 of the original 1951 film “The Thing From Another World”. It recreates the premise of a group of scientists, stuck in the Antarctic, that find a hostile shapeshifting alien that has laid dormant for thousands of years in the Antarctic ice. As a shapeshifter, once it gets going, it […]
Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” is one of his most renowned and best loved films, with his mastery of audio and visual language on full effect for this barely coherent horror movie centered on a coven of witches. Years after its 1977 release, the film has lost much of its weight; the gore and special effects are
Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-Sheng was the centerpoint of the films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang; working with the celebrated director must have taught Lee something about filmmaking, as he’s reinvented himself as a director of his own accord. “Help Me Eros” is his second feature, and it screened at the Sydney Film Festival, on a
Directed by Ulrich Seidl, “Import/Export” pauses on this image only for an instant, giving the audience a momentary glimpse of what we saw on the poster before treading into a much more bleak scenario. The film contains two independent storylines: One, about Olga, a nurse in some small town in Ukraine, who is desperately trying
When remembering 3 Women, many viewers mistakenly recall it as being titled 2 Women. That’s understandable (though it’s a different movie), because the third woman in question (Janice Rule) is barely present in the film and has no intelligible lines. Welcome to Robert Altman’s personal nightmare (literally, he came up with the story in a
For many Christians, the time of Lent is dedicated to 40 days of prayer and fasting. While most will give up red meat, caffeine, or Girl Scout cookies, the main character of 40 Days and 40 Nights has decided to give up sexual activity. I’m sure that’s not exactly what the religious order had in
I managed to score two free tickets to see the advance screener preview of The Hills Have Eyes through Vice Magazine. It’s pretty exciting getting free movie tickets, and even more exciting if it’s for a sneak preview. That was the extent of the excitement, though, as The Hills Have Eyes was a tepid pool
Another Roger Corman produced movie makes its way this time taking the B-movie into an apocalyptic future, where civilization has been reduced to isolated cities and groups of nomads that wander the barren plains. As with many movies that feature “Deathsport” is a terrible movie made for a shoestring budget to capitalize on some of
It’s hard to finger exactly what it is about the film that irks me. Really, there’s everything in it fantasy creatures, English private school accents, betrayal, redemption, candy. if it had gratutious nudity and some toilet humour, it will be a college hit. In spite of what it has, the film feels hollow to me.
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The whole idea of a Perhaps Love (2005) has been done to death, nearly to the point of cliche. We’ve seen it countless times before, and we’ll see it again, I’m sure. I’m even guilty of it myself I wrote a script for a film called Prenez Vos Places, a French/English movie about two guys
