It’d be easy to shrug this film off “Memories of Matsuko” is on topical viewings, a cartoon coloured over saturated musical with emotionally manipulative material. To dismiss this movie would be a disservice to Japanese cinema, which, the more movies I watch, seem to walk the lines of bad execution to create singularly spectacular visions. […]
Things are pretty good. I went to see my friend’s band play last night at the Marquee, and I had a decent ginger beer in a comfortable cafe. Yeah, I’ll probably go out this weekend, though I’ve got some volunteer stuff on. Then probably, I’ll ambush an English convoy as they make their way to
“The skill of Gymnastics. The Kill of Karate.” That’s the tagline for Gymkata, a near legendary cult classic from the 80s which used the popularity of martial arts movies combined with the hype of American gymnastics. As bad as the movie is, it’s almost beautiful to behold as at one point some studio executive looked
Hot Fuzz is a police buddy comedy movie featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, directed by Edgar Wright. Don’t know who they are? It’s pretty much the same team that delivered into us the movie known as Shaun of the Dead, which took audiences by storm with its premise ‘A romantic comedy with zombies’. It
The Golden Lotus is an ancient Chinese text, written during an early Dynasty, and has been banned throughout most of Chinese history as a pornographic text. It tells the tale of a libidinous magistrate, Ximen Qing, who leaps into sexual escapades and liasons with unsatisfied women. He’s a dirty player not one to cheer for
A couple of days ago, I wrote an excited preview for this film about a European woman, Carole, that falls in love with a Masai warrior. The movie, The White Masai, is a film adaptation of the book by Corinne Hoffmann a true story of her life married to the Masai warrior, Lemalian. The story
A commercial failure when it was released in 1971, Harold and Maude is in my opinion a fantastic inspiring movie that manages to do romance with out the cheese. It’s not a particularly compelling idea not to me, anyhow a 20-year-old man falls in love with an 80-year-old woman. Your natural instinct is one of
Broken Lizard is the comedy team that produced Super Troopers, a surprisingly hilarious, offbeat comedy. With maple chugging contests, and State Troopers saying ‘Meow’, it’s humour that you can’t explain, but is solid gold on the big screen. Their next movie, Club Dread, was considered ‘unwatchable’, but I still enjoyed it for the smoking hot
While I do like fast paced, edgy indie films, or breathtaking, water drip dramas, there will always be a special place in my cerebellum for Mary Poppins. My mother used to watch it with me when I was a little kid it was one of her favourite movies that and the Sound of Music and
Zombies are worse than vampires or ghosts, by far. Vampires are charming and have that fetish element to them plus they sleep during the day. Ghosts are easily busted by Ghostbusters. Zombies, on the other hand they’re the army ants of the supernatural world weak by themselves, but unstoppable in great numbers. The American fascination
