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We're Gonna Need a Fourth Wall: My Favourite Films Volume 20 7 Oct 2012 | 10:38 am
Ok, we're going to take a diversion in the present so that we can find some truth buried in the past. Post-modernism and all its bastards (Irony, metatext, pastiche, etc.) have taken over. It's imposs...
The Meaning of Life 8 Jun 2012 | 05:42 pm
I'm at a crossroads. I watch film after film and want to share my thoughts about them, but a few things stop me. First of all, who has the time? I gobble the damn things up like a hungry, hungry hippo...
Alone Together 29 Sep 2011 | 08:49 pm
Jean Renoir once said that the only real way to gauge the talent of a crop of filmmakers is to have everyone make the same movie. Unless everyone makes a western, how will you know whether their stren...
Profondo Argento - L'Apertura 11 Aug 2011 | 07:29 am
It took almost two years but Giallo finally saw a tiny theatrical release in England. It was the filmmaker's fault, they didn't pay Adrian Brody, for one, and as the man plays two roles and is basical...
ReMarathon 2011, Part 3, And Soon The Nightmare Ends 28 Jul 2011 | 10:20 am
And now for the final installment! And this time...it's personal! Children of the Corn by Donald P. Borchers Well here's your problem, you hired children! You needed actors! If I was to count the wa...
ReMarathon 2011, Part 2 27 Jul 2011 | 03:44 pm
Now, where were we? Oh yeah! Black Christmas By Glen Morgan Ok, finally. Here's a film that not only does something completely different from its namesake, but also uses the story from the earlier f...
ReMarathon 2011, Part 1 24 Jul 2011 | 06:46 pm
From the opening seconds of Quarantine, you know instantly that they've fucked the dog. Jennifer Carpenter's human interest reporter looks into the camera and says that her name is Angela Vidal. But t...
Who will survive and what will be left of them? 20 Jul 2011 | 02:19 pm
Marcus Nispel, like Russell Mulcahy or David Fincher, had a big handicap starting out as a feature film director. He was a music video and commercial director for many, many years before making his ci...
Come hungry, leave happy (My Favourite Films Volume 19) 12 Jul 2011 | 10:25 am
Think for a second about iconic filmic imagery. What comes to mind? I don't mean to push you one way or another, but if you feel so inclined, tell me what the first images that come into your head are...
Time To Take Out The Trash 30 Mar 2011 | 03:30 pm
Once, what feels like an age ago, I asked a like minded-fan of sleaze, smut, blood and/or guts why it was that modern filmmakers had such a hard time getting trash right these days. Why is that despit...
