Monday, 31 May 2010
Repulsion
A pretty girl dealing with the twin poisoned chalices of being irresistible to all man whilst being totally batshit insane, loses the plot extremely slowly and in doing so generates staggering levels of tension.
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Deep Red [Profondo Rosso]
Monday, 24 May 2010
Prince Of Persia : The Sands Of Time
Hallucinations Of A Deranged Mind [Delírios de um Anormal]
A torrent of clips from past Coffin Joe movies clipped together with a dizzying pace plus a few new bits slapped in to try and justify why you are watching this madness.
Yet despite seeming to be a cynical rehash of old scenes it ends up being quite possibly the most unhinged thing you could possibly sit through, total fucking lunacy.
King.
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Watchmen [The Ultimate Cut]
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Aliens In The Attic
Invokes the spirit of Critters and to a lesser extent Batteries Not Included.
Surprisingly it manages to land just about on the right side of average, largely due to a Tekken style fight scene where a chap clearly dilenated as a dick gets his ass handed to him by an elderly grandmother. In slow motion.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Stuck
Sets up an entirely preposterous situation in which characters are forced to pile on illogic in spades in order to maintain any form of momentum.
As freakishly outlandish as the whole thing gets, though, it never quite scales the heights of outrageous incredulity attained by the size of Mena Suvari's forehead.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Hellish Flesh [Inferno Carnal]
A scientist discovers his wife is having an affair when she throws acid in his face and then sets him on fire. Forced to wear a mask to hide his disfigurement, he goes on to be preposterously nice to his traitorous wife until in a fit of guilt she throws acid into her own face. The scientist then reveals that actually he's ok, the wife is made to feel like a bit of a 'nana (albeit a horribly disfigured one) and the scientist runs off with a woman who's spent the entire film repeatedly having sex with a shadow.
King.
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Four Lions
Because of Chris Morris' fondness for flirting with dangerous topics and the resultant focus on them, it is easy to forget he is some sort of comedy genius.
So here, despite the background of radicalists and suicide bombers, we have a story told with an elegant sense of pathos but shot through with an adeptly judged streak of the absurd which melds seamlessly to make a film that is both intelligent and muscle crampingly funny.
A Nightmare On Elm Street [2010 Remake]
The people who made this obviously took the original and broke it into component jigsaw pieces in order to reassemble it, however upon completion of the outer edges they've realised that the concept of remaking Elm St is utterly redundant and so completed the puzzle by pooling runny shit into its centre.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Triangle
Monday, 3 May 2010
Furry Vengeance
90 minutes of animals looking pissed off. I was unable to ascertain whether this was due to their being made to waddle about in a manner that circus animals would find degrading, the fact they still managed to act Brendan Fraser off the screen yet he's the one who got paid or whether it was just because of an awareness that they were part of this fucking awful come stain on the crotch of cinema.
Iron Man 2
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Ghost In The Shell 2.0
Contains a plot that is so convoluted and mired in philosophocial conjecture on what defines humanity that characters are required to precis it every 10 minutes, all set in a world so technologically advanced it renders human prescence meaningless anyway. Such complexity appears to be intended to dazzle, but just ends up suffocating the film and stripping it of any form of dynamic whatsoever.
This new 2.0 business looks fucking lush though.
Toy Story 2
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