Shorts

Viewing Up to 9/11

Tsai Ming Liangs brooding drama about displaced lonely people. Its slow but somewhat infectious. Towards the end it has a few great scenes. But as a whole I was not destroyed.

3/5













Nimrod(Kontroll) Antal's hitchcockian thriller. Generic but well executed. Surprisingly toned down for a movie about people forced into a snuff film. A few good moments and an interesting look make it watchable but forgettable. Honestly say I expected much more out of Antal.

2/5
















Kinji Fukasaku gangster pic. Not as wild as usual. Maudlin as hell in parts, but still has some charm. Low on the Fukasaku canon.

3/5










Its a bugs bunny cartoon starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti and a horde of dead nameless thugs. Id say its about 50/50 with hit/miss jokes. Some cool action, some to crazy. But in the end its a fun experience.

3/5

On my plate

I'm working on my own spin on this piece of awesome.

9/5 Viewings.

David Mackenzie's Young Adam was fairly bashed when it came out a few years ago. Im at a lost to why, its a very intriguing and complex character study. Joe (Ewan Mcgregor) works on a small shipping boat with Les (the awesome Peter Mullan) and his wife Ella(Tilda Swinton) and their young son. One day Joe and Les find a nearly naked woman floating in the river and they drag her ashore. An intense well plotted sexual drama ensues. Mcgregor's character is a complicated sort of man that we slowly fill in the blanks about. The revealing bits of character are well spaced and fit nicely into the Hana-bi like structure of the film.Save for one misfire scene in my opinion it is a good bit of underrated film making.

4/5



Kinji Fukasaku's youth drama is a decent but in the end underwhelming. It features his trademark wildman editing and maniacally frenetic camera work. The plot follows a bunch of blue collar youth and their quest to buy a dump truck in order to "make it". There's fighting death and a rather wild sex montage. Beyond the wild style the film really never takes off.

2/5

Stepping up my game.

Got that 5 out at a time netflix now.

know these films.

There will be blood.

My Blueberry nights.

Ploy(When the song changes the movie looks amazing, its some kind of cruel joke before)

Breath

Be kind rewind.

To many movies to little time

James Mangolds star studded western. Man code is in full effect here with a great story and fully realized characters. A western in the traditional sense. Mostly lackluster action scenes(the end is decent) are the films only real weak point.

4/5









Steven Spielbergs Empire of the Sun. A young Christian Bale struggling to live in Japan occupied china. Interesting story, big ass production value that impressed me several times. Doesnt quite come together as well as it could.

3/5





Katsuhiro Ishii's remake of fanny and alexander(which I havent seen) an amazing heartfelt oddball comedy. Features one of my favorite scenes and characters ever. This film couldnt have made me any happier.

5/5










Aki Kaurismaki's offbeat comedy with a dog like heartfelt main character. Slow but infectious you will be sad when bad things happen to our main character.

4/5












A true life drama by John Sayles features great acting by a host of famous and soon to be famous actors and a young Bonnie Prince Billy. Great Cinematography and a powerful story. Great Picture.


5/5





Sogo Ishii is crazy, very cool filming of people sprinting like mad. 3 stories vary in quality, 3rd is the coolest. Runs only 60 minutes. Decent.

3/5















James wan shoots people they go boom. Stupid and ham fisted but entertaining.


3/5









Some jackass who will never direct again's War. Stupid as hell, shitty action scenes and a dialogue about how much Devon Aoki wants a salad. Worst movie ive seen since RE apocalypse.

1/5