Exploitative yes, this though only detracts marginally from the genius that is The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires. Classic Hammer supplanted into the mystical east, where it seems zombie vampires and vengeful brothers come in lucky sevens, oh and virgins wear very flimsy and easily ripped outer garments – it all equals brilliant!
The Cars That Ate Paris is Peter Weir’s first feature and it feels like it. But that is not necessarily a bad thing, everyone has to start somewhere and Weir started considerably better than most.
Yeah, Versus is crap. I saw one of the actors in it in a Japanese version of Titus Andronicus at the RSC – that was really good.
I’m sure how satirical Election actually is, but I don’t think that matters. It’s more about tragic flaws and misfit characteristics and that to err… is indeed human. It’s not mean, but it has an honesty that does cut through, showing that nobody ever truly wins whether they’re a voter, candidate or just someone with good intentions.
La Règle Du Jeu is the definitive telling of the upstairs, downstairs narrative and it is impossible to deny it’s class and quality.
Ah, the French New Wave, what a fine and revered cinematic movement. Jules Et Jim is very ‘new wave’, but not nearly as cool as I was hoping. Jeanne Moreau as Catherine just pissed me off mostly as I tried to figure out why the eponymous dudes got their knickers in such a fucking twist over her.
Julien Donkey Boy is very Korine and very Dogme 95, if ether of these things put you off movies I’d steer clear. To be honest even if they don’t there is no guarantee you’re going to be into this. Chloe and Werner are watchable, everyone else feels very much like students who think they’re doing something profound. This is not the case, however they’re are doing something at least vaguely interesting.
Without doubt Point Break is the greatest and most important action film ever made. If you disagree please see me after class.
Licence To Kill is one of the best Bond movies, if not the best. And Dalton is my favourite incarnation of the misogynist wonder spy. I watched this New Year’s Day after spending the night before at a gypsy rave in a pub in Nottingham. It was a superb tonic…
As a rule I’ll watch anything with Sam Rockwell in. As another rule I’ll read anything by Chuck Palahniuk. This meant I liked Choke. It certainly isn’t as good as the sum of it’s parts, but solid performances can never be underestimated in the power they have to carry a flick.
Kind of like a comic Halloween bonanza edition Trick ‘r Treat delivers a loosely connected tale of all things spooky with creep and gore to spare. Seek it out, it’s not nearly as awful as you think and features a ridiculous in many ways, but cool in a few, take on Red Riding Hood starring none other than Miss Anna Paquin…
The Big Sleep has some of the best dialogue ever written and when you couple this with the fact most of it is being delivered by Bogey, cinema becomes a better place for all. “She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.”
As far as Christmas Eve movies go The Nightmare Before Christmas is no Home Alone or indeed Die Hard, but it isn’t far off.
It’s easy to be cynical about Warrior, but why would you be? Essentially it’s Bloodsport with Tom Hardy and that, as this flick proves, is enough to be pretty fucking peachy.
What? Luc Besson wrote Colombiana? A film about a female assassin. Honestly my jaw is on the floor. Who’d have thought it? And it’s shit? Well, consider me dumbstruck!
