I’ll make it clear right now that I don’t know much about horror or Sam Raimi. I have seen The Gift, the first two Spidermans, and A Simple Plan. I thought all of those were good (A Simple Plan was great). But not being familiar with his horror films, I went into the [...]
Entries from May 31st, 2009
Drag Me To Hell
May 31st, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: Alison Lohman · Drag Me To Hell · Ivan Raimi · Justin Long · Lorna Raver · Sam Raimi
Library Loot and the end of Cannes
May 27th, 2009 3 Comments
It’s time for Library Loot again. It’s been a while since I was on vacation the last week. While I was there (in Portland, Oregon), I found the most amazing art house theater. I know other cities have stuff like this, but a theater with a full service bar, full service Mexican [...]
Tags: Library Loot
Nature is Satan’s Church
May 21st, 2009 6 Comments
The reviews aren’t that great (check out the RottenTomatoes page here), but I love Lars Von Trier, and this trailer is scary as shit. I hope it’s released soon.
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Tokyo!
May 17th, 2009 1 Comment
Tokyo! seems like it would be a sprawling love letter to the vast metropolis of the city by the same name. It’s anything but this however, and the three directors that contributed to the project made no qualms about this. The last collections of short films we saw that garnered in sort of respectable attention [...]
Tags: Bong Joon-Ho · Leos Carax · Michel Gondry · Tokyo!
Library Loot
May 15th, 2009 2 Comments
I’m fortunate enough to live near a library that’s extremely well-stocked. In fact, it boasts to hold over 22,000 DVDs and videos. I go there a lot because I can find tons of stuff that I would have to get through NetFlix. So I’ve borrowed this theme from the book blogging world (thanks to thebluestockings.com) [...]
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The long awaited trailer for the Road – and it’s bad.
May 14th, 2009 5 Comments
Some of us have been waiting to see a trailer for The Road for a year now. The dumbass Weinsteins chose to push it’s release back and focus their Oscar- promoting funds on The Reader (good call Weinsteins). From all accounts, the film is supposed to be utterly devestating, and fantastic. The script is one [...]
Tags: The Road
Mom’s Favorite Films
May 9th, 2009 1 Comment
Madhatter’s weekly ‘Top 5′ feature this week focused on the five favorite films of his mom. Pretty much I’m going to do the same thing. My mom is pretty bitchin’. And I say that not just looking for an excuse to use the word bitchin’. Here is the list she’s created:
Life is Beautiful – The [...]
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Really?
May 6th, 2009 5 Comments
Really Jon Harris? Do you really want to bastardize one of the best horror films to come out in the last few years? Just because you were given an editor credit on The Descent (not named part one, making the sequel’s name The Descent Part 2 a little annoying) does not mean you get to [...]
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12
May 3rd, 2009 1 Comment
It takes a pretty be pair to remake a classic film like Sydney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men. A pair this big can be found on Nikita Mikhailov who updated the film favorite and adapted it to the complicated relations between Russia and Chechnya. Mikhailov won critical acclaim with his 1996 film Burnt by the Sun.
The [...]
Tags: 12 · Nikita Mikhailov · Vladimir Moiseyenko · Vladislav Opelyants
Sin Nombre
May 1st, 2009 1 Comment
It’s refreshing to watch a film that deals with gangs and illegal immigration that doesn’t have a cute little boy who’s separated (Under the Same Moon makes me want to throw up). But Sin Nombre avoids those cliches and makes for one great film.
The film is written and directed by Cary Fukunaga (I’m not familiar [...]
Tags: Cary Fukunaga · Diego Luna · Edgar Flores · Gael García Bernal · Paulina Gaitan · Sin Nombre
