so i waited about a month or so (prolly longer) to actually go see this movie. and then i waited about a month to write the review. and then i guess another month to finally post it here. so whatevs. in any case, this’ll be going up right around the time this movie comes out [...]
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 [...]
I figured since I prolly wasn’t going to get out to see The Mechanic any time soon (even though I love they’re using a Quarashi song in the trailer), I might as well honor the awesomeness that is quickly taking it’s corporeal form in the shape of Ben Foster. Foster is the creepy dude in the [...]
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 [...]
So just one review ago, I declared my disdain for adaptations of Stephen King’s novels (by and large). However, his shorter works seem to make for better movies. “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (little known fact: this is the novella that spawned Frank Darabont’s masterpiece, The Shawshank Redemption), weighing in at just over 100 pages [...]
So. Imagine you’ve reached the climax (heh) of a the novel you’re reading, and the supernatural, demon bad-guy is confronted by the local law enforcement officer, and this cop opens up a can of peanuts in the demon’s face. But stay with me though. Because it’s not even a can of peanuts. It’s one of [...]
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 [...]
Volume two of our musical theater sleepers takes us into darker territory. Obviously, Sweeney Todd isn’t really a sleeper since most people at least know the basic story: dude returns from his banishment to Botany Bay (and beyond) to find that his wife has died and his daughter adopted by said dude’s evil nemesis. Dude [...]
Here’s what you need to know-
* Horror Film
* Guillermo Del Toro
* Children in danger
Now watch the trailer and decide for yourself if all those things will work together (Spoiler alert: they will)!
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. [...]
Welcome to installment number 2 of the movies you shouldn’t at all feel bad you missed. This week’s straight to DVD feature had a 2.5 million dollar budget and debuted to mixed reviews at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona. But, unlike last week’s fare, John Knautz’s Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer at least had a [...]
To say whether or not I think Splice is any good (or bad) is to assume that I know what the hell kind of movie it is. And, since I don’t, I can’t. All I know is that Guillermo del Toro is a producer, and it was directed by the dude who directed Cube (Vincenzo Natali) … which was awesome (and really, you should rent that instead). But Splice? I’m not really sure … it was funny. Is that a plus?
Find out after the jump.
“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 [...]
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