Beijing Taxi (583/339)
BEIJING TAXI – Three taxi drivers in Beijing in the years leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I wondered how taxi drivers could survive with Chinese fare rates so incredibly low; we took 20-30...
View ArticleMelancholia, Vampires (589/344)
MELANCHOLIA – This is a fantasy about how the world ends for specific people, and how they approach the inevitable. Suicide, mental breakdown, or maybe stoicism? It’s not about the science, it’s not...
View ArticleCave of Forgotten Dreams, Le Havre (591/345)
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS – I heard so many people going on and on about how amazing it was that this was in 3D. They’re paintings on a wall… Yes, there is an element of the third dimension, but really?...
View ArticleThese Amazing Shadow, The Lost Boys 3 – The Thirst (595/348)
THESE AMAZING SHADOWS – This documentary presents the US’ National Film Registry as the answer to protecting films from being altered after the fact by people like Ted Turner and his cartoonish...
View ArticleThe Children, Spiderhole, Silent Night Deadly Night, Gremlins, Stripes (626/360)
THE CHILDREN – This little family get together includes talk of viruses, traditional Chinese medicine, and home schooling. The hippies talk about “building kids immunity in a natural way instead of all...
View ArticleBlack Christmas (1974), Black Christmas (2006), Die Hard 2, A Christmas...
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) – Oo… a bit of horror film history here – not only is this Canadian Content with Margot Kidder and Andrea Martin of all people, it’s also by director Bob Clark of the film with...
View ArticleTiny Furniture, Death Race 2000 (633/362)
TINY FURNITURE – As much as I want to say these nihilists are a new generation hipster thing, I think it’s been a pretty common art school thing for eons. Aura is having such a horrible time with all...
View ArticleHopscotch, Julia’s Eyes, Cedar Rapids (6/2)
HOPSCOTCH – Miles Kendig (Matthau) decides that he’s had enough of the political bullshit from his clueless CIA minders. Rather than passively accept an assignment to a desk in the basement file room,...
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The Help, Solaris (1972), Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark (63/29)
THE HELP – I think the tagline shown on the altered poster (below) may be more correct; “White people solve racism. You’re welcome, black people.” There’s nothing really wrong here, but this is a film...
View ArticleThe Red Chapel, Leprechaun, Welcome to North Korea, Rare Exports,...
THE RED CHAPEL – Interesting bit of sneaky documentary work. They were able to get away with a lot by not speaking English. I felt bad for Jacob, as he was lead into this project under something of a...
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