Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
My holidays sucked
(More at engrish.com)
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Sedmikrasky (Daisies)
If you’re waiting for part three of our Pukkelpop review, you’ll need to have a bit more patience. It’s time for an interlude: two reviews of movies with a connection to the festival. Coming up in part two: the movie that inspired a band looking for a good name, it’s Creature With The Atom Brain. [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
A man is in love double bill (2)
Welcome back for part two of our Kurtodrome Vault double bill of men being madly in love with women (oh, and not for the good of mankind). This time we move to Japan for a movie called:
PART 2. THE HUMAN VAPOR (Gasu Ningen Daiichigo)
“At first I could not understand the terror in Dr Sano’s eyes. [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
A man is in love double bill (1)
Time now to enter the Kurtodrome Vault again. This time we’ve taken two films out, both movies on men madly in love with women. They’d do anything for her. Because they are… in love.
PART 1. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)
Introduction
The Phantom of the Opera is a classic and probably doesn’t need much introduction: even [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Pukkelpop Unlive (day 2)
Welcome to part two of our Pukkelpop review, which this year focused on only three stages: the main stage, the Marquee and the Dance Hall. Sadly this meant being unable to see a couple of concerts I really would’ve wanted to see: Tunng, Nina Nastasia, Martina Topley-Bird at the Chateau and The DØ and Blood [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises, like A History of Violence, meant a step back from the usual body horror for David Cronenberg. Eastern Promises is a bold step forwards though: it is still vintage Cronenberg even if it’s a thriller rather than a horror movie and doesn’t involve gamepods attached to your spinal or phallic creatures coming out [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Pukkelpop Unlive
So here I am, feeding text into the internet. At home and not at the Pukkelpop festival where day 1 is taking place right now. The result of being unable to go on day three, rabidly hating day two with Metallica as headliners and weirdness surrounding the ticket sales for day one (see also this [...]
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Pukkelpop 2008: the home edition
1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007… those were the years I went to Pukkelpop. There’s one year missing: it’s 2002 and the headliners were Guns’n’Roses. A band that shouldn’t be on the line-up of an alternative festival, especially not given their attitude: the backstage needed to have gates [...]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
Allow me to begin by saying that I’m currently watching a blank screen, furiously wondering how I could start my review of The X-Files: I Want To Believe. This cannot be a good sign. Not only have I seen every episode of the series, even those from the abomination called Season Nine, but I own [...]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Wanted
I’m pretty sure thousands of fans would like to blow me to smithereens for the following sentence, but here we go: halfway through the movie I was ready to rate Wanted higher than The Dark Knight. And that’s when the plot went cuckoo.
Here’s my thing: I hate movies like The Bourne Ultimatum which pretend to [...]
