Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Messiah of Evil
There’s a good occasion to review Messiah of Evil (a.k.a. Dead People) now: it became a public domain movie a couple of years ago, but now it’s become downloadable (legally!) at the Internet Archive.
The film’s plot is wacky enough: a young woman (Marianne Hill) goes to California to find out what has happened to her [...]
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Hitler Dead or Alive (1942)
No war comes without a set of propaganda movies: some clearly intent to change your mind about how evil the other side is, some are merely exploitation.
Let’s face it, earlier on we already reviewed a Sherlock Holmes movie that was set in World War II, where Holmes (Basil Rathbone) tried to outwit the evil Nazis.
Hitler [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
A brief return to Onar Films
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed the latest Onar Films release, Captain Swing (scroll down to find it here or have a look at the DV website in case you missed it). Two years ago Onar Films released three Kilink movies on DVD (Kilink in Istanbul and a Kilink sequels double bill). If you [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Have a look at The Descent
The movie The Descent has already been reviewed here, so there’s no need to bring all that up again. Anyway, a couple of days ago I saw a poster for the film I hadn’t seen before. It’s good enough to share it with you here, so have a look…
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Hari Puttar delayed
And so we’ll have to wait for the Hari Puttar movie to be released in theatres. Warner Bros has fired a lawsuit against “all parties involved in the production and distribution of the Hari Puttar film” (I wonder if that includes the catering service). You see, Warner Bros claim Hari Puttar is too similar to [...]
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Chainsaw Maid
Chainsaw Maid is a claymation short by Takena. An ode to the zombie movies by George A. Romero, enough gore to please Lucio Fulci and a hint of David Lynch (the Twin Peaks score by Badalamenti).
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
R.I.P. Don LaFontaine
Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68.
LaFontaine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lung. He had been taken to the hospital Aug. 22 with a blood clot in the lung.
LaFontaine was known as the “king [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Captain Swing
Captain Swing is the latest offering from Onar Films. The movie is a Turkish adaptation of an Italian comic based on the adventures of an American rebel. Well, I say American, I mean “French-American” living with Indian tribes. Did I just manage to include every country in the world in two sentences? Anyway, are you [...]
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Dans Les Cordes
The first movie that springs to mind is Girlfight.
But this is not Girlfight. Yes, this is a movie about a girl who wants to make it in the world of female boxing. But that’s where the parallels end.
This is Dans Les Cordes.
This is the movie debut of director Magaly Richard-Serrano. If her name is familiar, [...]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Pukkelpop Unlive (day 3)
Day three and the uncontrolable urge to look across the border and see how the Dutch festival Lowlands is coping. We noticed bad reviews for Santogold’s concert and found Amy McDonald’s line-up eerily similar to what we’d seen at Pukkelpop the day before (now that’s disappointing). Never mind, it’s Pukkelpop we should review, so here [...]
