I recently finished reading the Ultimate Spiderman, a ‘remake’ of The Amazing Spiderman series, slingshotted into the 2000s by updating the era to make it accessible to a younger generation. The original Spiderman was published in the 1960s, where high school ‘jocks’ took cheerleaders to the school dance to do the Cha-Cha; now, Peter Parker […]
It is one of my favourite films, and one of the best to have come out of China in recent times. I’m not much of a romantic in fact, you could say that I’m an anti-Romantic, protesting flowers, fancy dinners, and rehearsed pleas of love. Fake romance. our culture is rife with commercialized ways to
When I first saw the trailer for Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, I wasn’t interested at all. Not at all. Usually, college style stoner comedies make fun of visible minorities, poking fun at the accents, the peculiar behavior, the awkward attempts to meet girls Asian and Indians are the butt end of jokes,
Last year, famed Canadian director Bruce McDonald released “The Tracey Fragments”, a movie about adolescent malaise starring Ellen Page, the Juno-darling. Page plays Tracey Berkowitz, a distressed teenage girl, known in her school as ‘the girl with no tits’, distrusted by her parents, looked down upon by her psychiatrist and, like many adolescents, trying to
13 Tzameti” is the type of film that you’d project on a wall at a Halloween dance party. The black and white cinematography augments the nightmarish scenario, making this film feel like something from the back of the skull of a notorious serial killer. Released in 2005, the debut feature of director Gela Babluani is
Based on a series of books by the same name, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a vibrant film adaptation that shows the world around us, filled with magical creatures. We’re all used to the story of a mother, a daughter and twin boys move into a decrepit old house outside a small country town in New
In the Valley of Elah” is director/screenwriter Paul Haggis’ adaptation of a Playboy article written by Mark Boal, about the death of Richard Davis, who was killed after returning home from Iraq. The movie finds a release at a profitable time, when its blatant anti war message rings upon sympathetic ears across America. Several years
Based on the 2002 Hong Kong horror movie, “The Eye” stars Jessica Alba as the recipient of a cornea transplant that restores her sight, but with the added superpower of being able to see the dead spirits that walk the streets with us. The original movie was relatively popular in Hong Kong, though it only
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
