WATCH NOW THE EXORCIST William Friedkin’s 1973 film of the William Peter Blatty best-seller may not be the best demon movie ever made, but it’s the one everybody remembers. It defined the satanic in movies and spawned decades of klutzy imitations. No surprise that it should be re-released (with 11 original minutes restored, plus remixed […]
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WATCH NOW FARGO During a depressing North Country winter, a car dealer who is used to scamming a few extra bucks out of his customers plans a bigger outrage, an absurd swindle. The mark is his wealthy boss, who is also his father in law. Jerry (William H. Macy), our homespun antihero, hires some goons
WATCH NOW FINDING NEVERLAND After the unsuccessful opening of his play Little Mary in London in 1903, Scottish playwright James Matthew Barrie (Johnny Depp) goes off with his Newfoundland dog to write a new play in nearby Kensington Gardens. There he becomes friends with a family of four fatherless boys and their mother, Sylvia Llewelyn
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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
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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.
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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
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“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
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