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
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
