Well I’ve had my fun the past few weeks watching more well known films, so now it is time to get back to brass tachyons and rummage up some harder to find films. This week’s film is one of the first ecological doomsday film though rather then focusing on the science fiction aspect of the plot, it chooses to follow the newspaper men covering the story. Sounds like The Day the Earth Caught Fire is positively dripping with excitement, no?
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Sadly, the Nineties would not be a good time for Carpenter, and this, like many of us, is when I started to lose interest in his work. Memoirs of an Invisible Man, while inventive at times, is painful and never quite understands what kind of movie it wants to be; all of this is made worse by the fact that many scenes practically scream studio intervention. So when I saw the trailer for 1995’s In the Mouth of Madness, I tried not to get my hopes too high. The good news was the movie ended up being pretty good, and the bad news was that it would be Carpenter’s last good movie. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: "Best New Horror", "Herbert West, "Pickman's Model", Big Trouble in Little China, C. Auguste Dupin, Christian A. Dumais, Dagon, Danse Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, Escape from New York, H.P. Lovecraft, Halloween, Hellboy, In the Mouth of Madness, Joe Hill, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Necronomicon, Prince of Darkness, Robert E. Howard, Starman, Stephen King, The Fog, The Thing, They Live, Too Soon Email This Post
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Aug
01
2008
Rummaging through the Old Maids (8/1/08)Posted by: Matt Gamble in Features, Previews, TrailersQuick and easy entry this week as my choices are pretty close to universally awful. The obvious film to see this weekend is American Teen. This is an outstanding documentary on a group of Indiana High School seniors living out their last year of High School. It is a great little film that truly deserves a huge following. But being an Indie documentary it is probably bound to live in obscurity. The other interesting film to watch is Midnight Meat Train, if you can find it. Suffering through multiple release delays and a change in directors (controversial Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura is now in charge) the film was slated for a direct-to-dvd release but is now getting some rather odd treatment by Lionsgate. They have now chosen to have a very small release for the film, 100 screens nationwide, and all of them will be on the secondary market. Meaning you will have to find your local dollar theater and hope they have it, because the odds of the film lasting more then a week are incredibly slim. Is the movie any good? Who knows? But the studio seems terrified of it so that has to account for something, right? As for DVD releases, The Counterfeiters, the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film finally gets a release. While not the best foreign film of last year, it is still a very good movie that is easily worth a rental. Which is more then I can say for Nim’s Island. As always trailers are after the break! Read the rest of this entry » Tags: American Teen, Clive Barker, documentary, DVD, film, foreign film, foreign language, high school seniors, Indiana, lionsgate, Midnight Meat Train, movie, Oscar, oscar winner, preview, Rummaging through the Old Maids, Ryuhei Kitamura, The Counterfeiters, trailer Email This Post
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Jul
31
2008
Dare to be Stupid: Why more sequels should be like Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2Posted by: Matt Gamble in Dare to be Stupid, Editorials, Features, Movies
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