PONTYPOOL (DVD) – I did like that Neal Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash’ featured in a shot here; a book about brain viruses, a movie about brain viruses. Interesting take on zombies, though I think the end is a little bit muddled. I know I feel like killing when I get some songs stuck in my head… [...]
Read more →YO-YO GIRL COP (DVD) – “Oh, those kids today with their web sites and their suicide!” I suppose judging Japanese youth culture by movies like this is about as fair as judging American youth culture by Vin Diesel movies. Apparently there have been suicide clubs in Japan, but is this Enemy Number One for the [...]
Read more →GET LAMP (DVD) – This one has a couple different documentaries on it; the main general documentary, a short doc on caving, and a feature on the history of Infocom. Makes me want to play through Hitchhiker’s Guide again… GET LAMP itself which looks at ‘interactive fiction’ as a whole. How exploring caves compares to [...]
Read more →Two variations on living fast and dying hard… SID AND NANCY (DVD) – I can see why John Lydon didn’t like this film. It seems to portray him as having some sort of sexual jealously when he sees Sid and Nancy together. There are some nice historical touches, like a recreation of the Bill Grundy [...]
Read more →KILL BILL VOL 2 (DVD) – While the Pei Mei story is interesting, with the martial arts master archetype, it’s really only there to explain how how The Bride could punch through a coffin, it’s really not needed as part of this story. It’s a bit like the pregnancy test / assassination attempt story; long, [...]
Read more →THE TOY (Netflix) – I know that Richard Pryor films didn’t tend to fare too well with the critics or even all that well with the audiences, but I enjoyed this one as a kid. As an adult, it’s a bit silly especially with some of the sped up, keystone cops style scenes. At its [...]
Read more →SHOPGIRL (DVD) – Contrasting two jerks – one that’s a rich and and one that’s stupid. One tries to make her better, and the other is made better by her. The only thing that really bothers me is Mirabelle’s blonde nemesis, Lisa, from Saks. It just feels like it was slapped in by the studio, [...]
Read more →TERMINATOR (Fanedit) – I apparently only had TERMINATOR 2 stored in my memory – I don’t remember any of this. The “punks”, the restaurant Sarah works in, these phones you put money in in order to call someone… Most of this movie is something of a surprise to me, and it’s not just the re-added [...]
Read more →THERE WILL BE BLOOD (DVD) – Warming up to tomorrow’s Zombie-thon to commemorate the undead status of man-god, I thought that the ominous title might lead to more of a literal religious battle. Unfortunately, the religion aspect was surface-deep, and really centered on how people will use religion to their own ends. here’s a tale [...]
Read more →PLANET OF THE APES (iTunes) – This 2001 remake doesn’t try very hard on all fronts. Could they make the wire-fu look any lamer? It takes all of the excellent costuming and effects and turns them into bad cartoons. Most of the apes have great prosthetics, and the actors seem to have worked to get [...]
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