Recent viewings

[CheezeFlixz]

In the last week I've seen ...

BLOOD SIMPLE
DARK SECRETS (Julie Strain, Indiana)
VANTAGE POINT
THE BANK JOB
BAD GIRLS ARE FROM MARS
SHEENA

[glidewell]

Just saw the movie The Cottage, man that ish was crazzzzy. I've never seen a horror film that captured the essence of fear and comedy so well. To be honest I wasnt really looking forward to seeing it but now that I've seen I can definitely say I would reccomend it hands down.

[moman]

Casino. Loved that film.

[Torgo]

KILL BILL Vol. 1  ***1/2 out of ****
KILL BILL Vol. 2   **** out of ****

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdjuS17DGlA
My dream woman, Uma, kicking @ss.

[Torgo]

Casino. Loved that film.

Don't know if you've seen this or not, but it's great.  They've done similar ones for Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, The Big Lebowski and a few others.

BTW, I agree that Casino is a great (and vastly underrated ) film.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3j_B-GhvPgU

[Psycho Circus]

This film is cool.

[Torgo]

DARK CITY: Director's Cut    **** out of ****.

Truly a magnificent piece of filmmaking IMO.  I'm with Ebert on this one.  Been a while since I've seen the theatrical cut so I'm going to have to go back through that one to see what was added (I heard that they have a marker you can turn on for the additional footage on the Blu-Ray version but I just got the standard DVD).  But the movie still remains very powerful and just as cool as when I first saw it in a theater back in 1998.     

[Rev. Powell]

TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (2002): Childhood sweethearts are tragically separated. One becomes an infamous bandit, and the other is arranged to marry a police captain who plans to hunt him down. A campy Thai spaghetti Western with slick arthouse visuals, this flick screams, "Look at me! I'm a cult movie!"  I'd give it 4 slimes counting curiosity value, Andrew gave it 3 for entertainment value.

[lester1/2jr]

torgo-  completely disagree.  I thought the plot was re hashed twilight zone.  all the leads were miscast and the whole "dark" tone was cheesy!!  thumbs way down



also saw "targets" (1968)   boris karloffs last movie.  it's more interesting and  discussable than actually good.  there are two components:  boris karloff is trying to retire from the movies and his management want him to make more drive in hits.  Karloff tries to come across as a nice guy and it doesn't work.  they shuold have had him more ornery and more like he is in his movies.   as in "the fan" starring lauren bacall, the second element of the film is ther more compelling and that is of the psycho who for some reason goes from an all american super normal suburban guy to a serial killer.  the director Peter bagdonavitch has a particularly ridiculous remark in the commentary there is a shot that if you look very closely is a book about the painter Renoir.  You probably wouln't even notice it but Boggy says that he put it there as a tribute to the director jean renoir, who he claims loved "targets" when he saw it. 

[JaseSF]

More like rehashed "Outer Limits" as the plot is largely similar to "A Feasibility Study".

[Rev. Powell]

MST3K: THE PHANTOM PLANET: A space pilot crash lands on a planet full of tiny women jurors and dog-creatures that shoot fire.  A so-so episode.  3/5.

MST3K: HOBGOBLINS:  "Help, somebody's rubbing puppets on us!"  This inept PG-rated GREMLINS ripoff, much of which takes place in the punk-rock/topless bar called "Club Scum", is a perfect episode to riff on: ridiculous and entertaining on its own, but not so entertaining that the commentators step on the movie's few good parts. Host segments are memorable to, especially Crow's "search for Bigfoot" style short, "Let's Talk Women"!  I looked forward to seeing this episode for a long time, and I wasn't disappointed.  4/5.

THE BLOB (1988):  Small town teens battle the titular goo.  With action, good special effects and the minimal characterization we expect from monster movies, it's at least as entertaining as the overrated [ducks] original.  3/5.

SHEITAN (2006):  French, subtitled.  Obnoxious amoral twentysomethings party at a creepy French provincial estate where the caretaker has a permanent unsettling grin, and nothing is as it seems.  Ambitious attempt at a ROSEMARY'S BABY type atmosphere, but the young protagonists are intolerable and live to annoy the audience for far too long, and the multiple false endings were a bad idea.  2/5.

THE BODY SNATCHER (1945):  Karloff is hypnotically evil as Gray, a carriage driver who sidelines in grave robbing and blackmailing the local medical school dean, in this eerie adaptation of a Robert Louis Stevenson story.  Gray may be Karloff's most sinister performance, but with the notable exceptions of Henry Daniell's Dr. MacFarlane, and a very good if too small bit by Bela Lugosi, the supporting performances aren't up to snuff in this horror/drama. Still, a minor horror classic from legendary producer Val Lewton and future Oscar winning director Robert Wise.  5/5.

[Torgo]

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay    (unrated) *** out of ****

The Love Guru     *1/2 out of ****

The X-Files: I Want to Believe   ** out of ****

[Allhallowsday]

THE GOLD RUSH and parts of A WOMAN OF PARIS, THE CIRCUS, CITY LIGHTS and MODERN TIMES, all shown on TCM Saturday (I've seen most of them previously)  As I worked on making spaghetti sauce I listened to CHAPLIN's scores and in some cases, his own narration. 

BAD COMPANY starring JEFF BRIDGES, one of my favorite Westerns, and A MAN CALLED HORSE following, were both shown on TCM this past week. 

PAN'S LABYRINTH: finally got around to looking at my own DVD copy... well, I need to mull that dark one over and will certainly spin it again soon.  Certainly not a one-size-fits-all movie. 

[Psycho Circus]

[Sister Grace]

over the past couple of days, i've watched....

The Proposition- **** out of *****. Really cool and Nick Cave done the soundtrack!

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanomo (sp?) Bay- *** out of *****. had some really funny moments, but a few of the jokes were way too juvenile; but then again it is Harold and Kumar so what do you expect?

Doomsday *** out of *****

Sea of Fear ** out of *****, if someone was killing off my friends in an area as small as a thirty or fourty feet boat, it shouldn't be this difficult to figure out. all the characters were complete morons and reminded me why i never dated frat guys.