tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90482394378194734462024-03-13T23:12:06.359-04:00Shadows on the Cave WallReviewing previously released movies widely available for streaming.Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-25973572355920239302011-09-21T04:47:00.000-04:002011-09-21T04:47:59.215-04:00The TrotskySo the reincarnation of Soviet pioneer and leader Leon Trotsky goes to school in Canada. That's is the basic premise of The Trotsky, and it's actually quite a bit better than that sounds.
Let me elaborate. We first meet Leon Bronstein, brilliantly played by Jay Baruchel, as he leads a hunger strike at his fathers garment factory in Quebec. He's doing this because he believes that he is the Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-45597373892847441332011-09-20T05:00:00.001-04:002011-09-20T05:00:09.625-04:00Monty Python: Almost the Truth
Then...
I'm not normally a fan of documentaries as I feel that many times they are pushing a particular viewpoint or opinion, but every once in a while you get that special documentary that isn't full of itself and it's own agenda. 2003's Fog of War is a perfect example, where former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara sits down and talks for an hour and a half. That is the sort of Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-86228703731885991412011-09-19T05:00:00.013-04:002011-09-19T05:00:10.850-04:00Vidocq So there is a lot of conflicting concepts and ideas going on with how this movie is both advertised as well as some of the core concepts of the movie. Most of the information I had gotten about Vidocq (for some reason, most US releases I have seen around have renamed it Dark Portals... I've seen it and still don't understand that) beforehand had been that it's a very good Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-87978204586431415722011-09-16T05:00:00.059-04:002011-09-16T05:00:00.795-04:00BMX Bandits
BMX's can go ANYWHERE!
I don't think I'm alone when I get intrigued over early works from stars before they really hit it big, no matter how bad they look. Of note, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hercules in New York, George Clooney in Return to Horror High, and our entry for today, Nicole Kidman in BMX Bandits. BMX Bandits is not much of a movie: 50 minutes of two bumbling crooks chasing aroundPathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-73189756524339122962011-09-15T05:00:00.004-04:002011-09-15T05:00:06.601-04:00The Lost Skeleton Returns AgainLarry Blamire brings us back to the 1960's in this sequel to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a movie so good you should go out and watch it right now. Its okay, I'll wait. Fort those waiting, here's a picture of a skeleton choking a man.
You've failed me for the last time!
You're back? Good. What did you think? I know, absolutely hysterical. For those of you who don't like fun, The Lost Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-48707992251878201492011-09-13T05:00:00.001-04:002011-09-13T05:00:08.150-04:00Spider-man/Spider-man and his Amazing FriendsEver since Disney bought Marvel, I've had the chance to catch a lot of the old Spider-man cartoons I used to watch back in the eighties on Disney's cable channel, and as unlike everything else I used to love as a child, these are actually better than I remembered. Both shows were released in 1981 and saw heavy rotation and recycling through that decade, pervading my ever sponge-like brain Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-50802080979631619742011-09-12T05:00:00.035-04:002011-09-12T05:00:10.619-04:00Royal Deceit
I promise to wear pants if you promise
not to drown in a river, deal?
It's Hamlet! It's Hamlet with Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Kate Beckinsale, Brian Cox and many more. I mean it's an amazing cast doing the greatest tragedy ever written, how can this not be amazing? But there's a narrator. Telling me that Amled (Hamlet) was only pretending to have lost his senses and we're Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-55261558896582538052011-09-09T05:00:00.006-04:002011-09-09T05:00:09.693-04:00Bronson
Now that's entertainment!
This film chronicles the life and times of the "most violent prisoner in Britain", one Michael Peterson aka Charles Bronson. It's an interesting biopic starring Tom Hardy as the thuggish yet entertaining Bronson casting the character in the light of a showman telling his story in a sort of one man show before an imaginary audience.
Michael Peterson was a Welsh Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-27069159203630682732011-09-08T04:23:00.000-04:002011-09-08T04:23:23.894-04:00BlitzKen Bruen is Ireland's answer to James Patterson with his crime novels following the exploits of the same character through multiple novels and the outlandish exploits that they experience, Blitz being the film adaptation of the 4th novel dealing with London's Detective Sergeant Brandt. That may be why the character, played by Statham, feels like we should already be familiar with him Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-83940933864745180072011-09-07T05:00:00.002-04:002011-09-07T05:00:10.238-04:00I Love You Philip MorrisThis is one of those movies where the phrase "don't judge a book by its cover" really applies since the trailers I saw truly buried the lead. The trailers would have you believe that this is a movie about a zany, prison love affair between the characters portrayed by Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, and yes, that is a large part of the film. What the movie is really about is the life of Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-65511326493857236152011-09-06T05:00:00.002-04:002011-09-06T05:00:03.607-04:00Real TimeJay Baruchel and Randy Quaid star in this supposed comedy and that was enough to draw me into to a pointless and uninteresting story of a compulsive gambler and the leg breaker sent to kill him. The concept didn't really move me when I first saw it, but the cast swayed my decision to watch this one.
The problem with this movie is that it's supposed to be a journey to the underworld metaphor Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-19718294469036646632011-09-05T05:00:00.121-04:002011-09-05T05:00:10.261-04:00Undead or Alive
That just ain't right.
The zombie comedy was first made popular by 2004's Shaun of the Dead, and while nothing has really quite matched it to date, Undead or Alive does a respectable job and has the added bonus (at least in my books it does) of taking place in the Old West. And while I would have preferred zombies you can kill with a bullet to the brain, the fact that these zombiesPathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-23780157730396352032011-09-02T05:00:00.002-04:002011-09-04T03:26:01.353-04:00Mean GunsFollowing up on one line reviews I give you Mean Guns.
One hundred criminals and killers working for a nebulous criminal syndicate lock them into a new prison just before it opens and dumps out crates of weapons followed moments later by the ammo for those guns and whoever survives gets one final payday.
Rating: B-Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-32030839495322155232011-08-31T05:00:00.003-04:002011-09-04T03:25:51.310-04:00Valhala RisingSince I have family and work craziness going on right now, for the rest of the week I will be doing one sentence reviews.
Today it's Valhalla Rising.
An avant garde Viking movie that is actually quite intriguing and has one of the most brutal eviscerations I have ever seen on film to date.
So is this your first visit to the chiropractor?
Rating: B-Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-9487195543623473802011-08-30T05:00:00.100-04:002011-09-04T03:25:36.659-04:00ThirstChan-wook Park first came to my attention with his incredible, yet hard to watch Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) so I was very eager to see his take on vampires in Thirst. Thirst is not your ordinary vampire movie. I mean, there is blood drinking, feats of incredible strength, and a general aversion to sunlight but what it's really about is how doing a Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-83984414611770332602011-08-29T05:00:00.002-04:002011-09-04T03:25:25.199-04:00DIE-ner (get it?)
Well there's your problem.
Holy bad movie Batman. From the moment the title of DIE-ner (get it?) comes up, you must realize that you, or a loved one, have made some poor choices in life if you find yourself watching this dreck. And it's not just that it's not a very good zombie movie with substandard visual effects, but with flashbacks for our serial killing protagonist, it Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-54816099268962094422011-08-26T05:00:00.109-04:002011-09-04T03:25:14.935-04:00Blood Creek
Do you mind? I'm having an intimate
moment with this Rune stone.
Chocolate and peanut butter, two tastes that taste great together. We all know it; we all love it, so why can't the same be true with our movie villains? Well, in 2009 we got to see that theory put into practice with not one, but two movies where our villains are not only Nazis, but zombies as well. Norway's Dead Snow and Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-3792106332682714082011-08-25T05:00:00.001-04:002011-09-04T03:25:00.966-04:00House of the Devil
It's right next to the Catholic church on 4th street.
There are atmosphere movies and then there are atmosphere movies, and House of the Devil is one of those films that just has atmosphere coming out the wazoo. On the surface, this is a haunted house story with slasher film elements thrown in and is filmed in the style and very much made to feel like a movie from the late 70's Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-86099599636298534652011-08-24T05:00:00.003-04:002011-09-04T03:24:50.791-04:00Jonah Hex
Is there something on my face?
So Jonah Hex was a character created by DC Comics in 1971 and was a horrifically scarred Civil War veteran turned bounty hunter. His foes and problems were not fantastic in any way other than that they were based in the past. Then comes the Crisis on Infinite Earths and Hex we were introduced to is erased only to be reimagined years later as a Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-41059816622694703012011-08-23T05:00:00.002-04:002011-09-04T03:24:37.945-04:00Bunny and the Bull
Bunny and the Bull is a surreal road movie with a team up stranger than Hope and Crosby... actually, I've seen a couple of their Road to <insert destination here> and they are pretty zany themselves. So let's just say that Bunny and the Bull does the road movie proud. The really interesting thing is that the story is told in part in flashback. Actually, that's Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-22019020471717016852011-08-22T05:00:00.003-04:002011-09-04T03:24:27.644-04:00Centurion
At the time this came out, Dominic West
was the big name in this movie.
After his portrayal of Magneto in X-Men: First Class, Michael Fassbender seems to be showing up just about everywhere I look nowadays. His imdb page shows no less than 6 projects due out in just the next year, so I thought I'd take a look at some of his earlier work. In 2010 he was in two movies, and I think I Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-28104654942435641572011-08-19T05:00:00.009-04:002011-09-04T03:24:16.578-04:00The Wild Hunt
This movie purports itself "to quickly merge fantasy and reality in this psychological drama". So what I'm expecting is a supernatural tale of ancient legends in the modern world. But what is instead delivered is a grueling tragedy of almost Shakespearean levels. I'd put it at about a Romeo and Juliet level, which I'm sure was an intentional comparison, but nowhere near as Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-2537823370730485232011-08-18T05:16:00.001-04:002011-09-04T03:24:05.599-04:00Due Date
So, how much are you getting paid for this?
After watching Due Date, it's not hard to imagine the pitch meeting where whoever came up with this script made his case: it's The Odd Couple meets The Hangover. That sums up the movie and if you're going to hold it up that standard, then where each of those movies are great in their own rights, Due Date does not rise Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-85452828092388230472011-08-17T05:01:00.001-04:002011-09-04T03:23:51.616-04:00Hobo With A ShotgunSo do you remember back in 2007, when you went to see Grindhouse and they had all those "trailers"? You remember. There was the slasher spoof Thanksgiving, and my personal favorite, Werewolf Women of the SS. Well, in the Canadian release of the film, they got a different fake trailer called Hobo With A Shotgun about a city where crime is rampant and one lone hobo says "enough", and dispensesPathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048239437819473446.post-44524985052160650292011-08-16T05:13:00.001-04:002011-09-04T03:23:34.361-04:00Garth Marenghi's DarkplaceGarth Marenghi's Darkplace is a self-aware parody that also mixes its metaphors and cliches to the pinnacle of absurdity creating something so awful that it travels through that black hole from which none emerge and emerges from a white hole on the other side to become pure brilliance. It takes meta to a whole new level.
The show is the creation of Mathew Holness and Richard Ayoade (The It Crowd,Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534205447400446973noreply@blogger.com1