M. Night Shyamalan’s greatest talent, I think, is taking a brilliant cinematographer’s camera and pointing at something which is comprehensible but just off kilter, and doing it just so, in a way that makes the image and the content gel into an iconic Moment. In the preview of The Happening, we have a shot […]
American Zombie is a tiny little mockumentary that you may need to exert some effort to find, but I hope you will find it as well worth it as I and my companions did. Grace Lee directs (and costars as the in-film documentary’s codirector) this story of the zombie community’ struggles to function in […]
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Chicken tortilla soup again! Ugh. I need a raise. Sat down today to write reviews of American Zombie and Miss Pettigrew, and found notes in my own handwriting on a movie called Doomsday. Forgot I had seen it – hadn’t heard of it before we saw it, and […]
George Romero. George George George. You created a mini-genre out of what was at the time an oddity: a monster movie (specifically zombies, for their unique properties) which also was a statement about modern day life. Countless follow-ups by you and others continued this trend and made Zombie Movies an event worth […]
The ads for this movie tell you all you need to know about it: it’s a major attack on New York City shot entirely from the point of view of one consumer digital video camera. I would never spoil the surprises that await you, wanting instead to urge you to go see it. […]
The moment this film was announced, theatre freaks and Goths clenched up in anticipation. Tim Burton! Johnny Depp! Really, probably only Guillermo del Toro could come close to being a second viable choice to helm this project. At least we know they will get how very epic and dark Sweeney Todd […]
After watching the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, I would argue that the exacting demands of filmgoing audiences have finally drawn out the heart of this book. (Disclosure: I have not read it, but now I am willing to. For the antidote to this impulse, see The Omega Man.) Adding a dog […]
Oh yes - this film has a higher rating than some of these prestige films lately. Remember, it’s dollar value for what you’re shopping for! The previews are courting the torture-porn crowd (Saw, Hostel) the print ads lure the adult graphic novel fans (Sin City, 300). But what is 30 Days of […]
Full disclosure: I did not See Resident Evil: Apocalypse (aka #2) but my companion did and assured me that I would better maintain my faith in the franchise if I skipped it. An interview with Milla Jovovich echoed that sentiment in as politic a way as possible, and so I went in, certain […]
Interestingly, this movie was simultaneously released on limited screens (NYC) and on Movies on Demand, so if you have that kind of cable, you can see this movie right now for only $6. The Last Winter is a film building its terror on the science related to global warming, but not at all being […]
