so maybe this is more about memory than anything else. we’re doing foreign film this year at the sleeper cell (the french horror HAUTE TENSION (anglicized: high tension) for this week), which is less impressive than it sounds considering i’ve skipped out on the last month or 2. not due to a broken wrist or [...]
Alright – last time I mentioned that I was doing a big giant music project and that it was driving me crazy, because (and this is where I sound like an old man) all music coming out these days is terrible. Terrible. But hey, April 12 was coming around, and it was going to be [...]
It’s been roughly 15 months since I’ve been welcomed with open arms into this wonderfully potty-mouthed family here at Mediabreach.com, and things just keep getting better. It’s been awhile since I’ve taken the time to put an article together, and this seemed as good a time as any to reboot. For 2011, I’m going all [...]
Zack’s Odyssey Chapter 1 Where we are introduced to a new kind of art-form and where no one is let off the hook. So I’ve heard before from creative peoples that if you want to be happy with what you’re doing, you have to create for yourself and not for anyone else. Which is an [...]
Sleeper Cell will reflect movies that perhaps you missed or have always been meaning to watch but are too much of an asshole to place into your Netflix queue.  This could be a movie from 50 years ago or a movie from last year.  Bottom line, these are choice flicks and you missed out so [...]
You know, driving is one of my all time favorite things to do. I sit in the air conditioned comfy seat, and rock out to my favorite tunes. It’s awesome. But, as much as I love it, sometimes I space out, and lose track of what’s going on. And maybe I drift a little. Nothing [...]
As much as we’d sometimes like to believe it, no first time feature length motion picture director just up and makes a movie for the first time ever and churns out work that can be compared to the great movies of all time, such as Reservoir Dogs or The Shawshank Redemption. It just doesn’t happen. [...]
“The ball is round. The game is 90 minutes. That’s a fact. Everything else is pure theory.” – Officer Schuster¬† For being a movie all about action and music and imagery and running, Tom Tykwer’s 1998 Lola Rennt (auf Englisch, Run Lola Run, and run she does) is all about words. More specifically, the movie [...]
If you’ve never heard of Neil Gaiman, don’t worry; you’re not a bad person. Just know the man has been wearing black jeans and black t-shirts for the last 50 years or so, and has been telling some of the world’s greatest stories for most of it. And in the interest of full disclosure, I [...]
A Quick Intro: The Proposition is a perfect movie. There is a museum in Gaithersburg, Maryland that houses the basis for the scientific System Internationale: The NIST Museum. It holds the universal meter (decided upon in 1875) molded in an x-shaped cross section measured to be exactly the distance of one meridian line between Dunkirk, [...]
“In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His story will be told here.” So begins the novel Das Parfum by the German author Patrick Suskind. The novel was thought to be an [...]
Act II scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth ends with Lord Macbeth and his wife hearing a knocking on the gate of his castle in the middle of the night. They have just murdered King Duncan and are afraid that whoever is at the gate will come in and see that they are not in [...]
I’ve been thinking for the past few days now, and there’s just no way to say with any kind of gentleness (or with the respect that an actor like Clive Owen deserves) how truly terrible a life event it is to sit through Mike Hodges’ hard-boiled thriller I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. I was drawn to this movie, seeing it sitting there on the Blockbuster shelf, because of Clive Owen. I didn’t know who the guy was when I saw The Bourne Identity or King Arthur, which no doubt helped him enter my mind on a level playing field when I saw Sin City for the first time. The movie that was billed as a dark Bruce Willis vehicle ended up reminding us of Mickey Rourke (whose performances in the low-profile Masked and Anonymous and even the higher-profiled Domino and Once Upon a Time in Mexico went largely unnoticed, aside from his dog) and introducing American audiences to Clive’s particular style of stone-facery. So I picked it up.
Check it out after the jump.
Intacto (Intact in English) in short is a multi-lingual Spanish thriller directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of horror sequel 28 Weeks Later and the upcoming BioShock adaptation. It’s Spanish cinema, so for the plot, let’s keep it simple. There’s some opening business in a casino where we meet a luck-thief and our eventual nemesis [...]
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