OLIVER SHERMAN (iTunes) – Dark with the potential to turn (even more) tragic. A man who suffered massive trauma in war, shows up unannounced at the door of the man who saved his life seven years later. It’s not clear why he’s there; is he there out of friendship or respect, or there for something [...]
Read more →THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (Netflix) – I think I need to watch this one again; I think I missed something in the middle act with the shifting allegiances of the spies here. This isn’t James Bond style spying, but boring, everyday spying with paper work and drudgery.
Read more →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 →I SAW THE DEVIL – Korean thriller with a serial killer and a vigilante cop. Police are searching for a body, and recoil comically in horror when they find it. Melodramatic, and well shot. Beautiful photography and stoic central characters. The cop catches the killer, and nearly kills him. He decides, instead to take the [...]
Read more →KUNG FU PANDA – This isn’t what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be first a silly animation with anthropomorphized animals with a martial arts angle slapped on top. I was wrong. This is very much a genre kung-fu film first, that could theoretically been performed by live [...]
Read more →THE COLLAPSED (Carlton) – This is a low budget post-apocalyptic thriller. Not TROMA FILMS low-budget, but a pretty good looking film for the price. With $35000, you can now produce a pretty believable feature film. It helps if the director is willing to do craft services as well as everything else. The acting is fine, [...]
Read more →TESTAMENT – Another 1980s Nuke Frenzy film, but this one is a bit weirder than WHEN THE WIND BLOWS or THE DAY AFTER. They spend the first 20 minutes of the film with nothing wrong – no talk of problems, war, etc. It Just Happens. There’s a super bright flash when the bombs go off, [...]
Read more →WHEN THE WIND BLOWS – I was going through a big box of old CDs last week, and ripping them to MP3s. I lost a bunch of MP3s in a hard drive crash a couple years ago and haven’t got around to re-importing a couple hundred discs. I came across my copy of the WHEN [...]
Read more →POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Carlton) – I wasn’t sure how this one would work out; I thought it might have been more obvious, more preachy, taken some sort of ethical stand. I’m glad it didn’t really go that route, opting for a surprising subtlety. I’ve read a couple reviews where people [...]
Read more →Post-Rapture movie time… The films that didn’t make the cut for yesterday’s Rapture festival, and now that the world HASN’T ended – punishment time. THE RAPTURE – David Duchovny and Mimi Rogers – check out Duchovny with the hair… all Rapture-Ready with that business-in-front hairstyle. Mimi’s character is so bored with her life, her job, [...]
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