Archive for October, 2003

Pieces of April movie review

by Kris   ⋅   October 28, 2003   ⋅   Comments [2]

WHEN IS A FAMILY NOT DYSFUNCTIONAL? The novelty of Katie Holmes portraying a former punk twistette should be reason enough to check this movie out. She’s beautiful, talented and lends the ironically innocent edge her character demands. But there are many more wicked goobers of greatness in _this recipe. Stir in one estranged family [...]

Doom Generation movie review

by Kris   ⋅   October 21, 2003   ⋅   Comment [1]

HAVE YOU EVER KILLED SOMEONE? Okay, wait a minute, [[REWIND]].. Have you ever been at the local 7-11 or ‘quickie mart’ and hosed down some slushies, nachos, maybe some smokes? The cashier lackadaisically taps the register keys, wishing you were her last customer and is secretly praying to god you don’t have a handgun hidden. [...]

Battle Royale (aka Batoru Rowaiaru) dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   October 18, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

SPECIAL EDITION DIRECTOR’S CUT DVD Note: While many people believe this film to be banned in America due to its “excessively violent” nature, the actual reason for its absence from American markets is due to the fact Toei, the film company behind Battle Royale, refuses to have BR distributed in America at any cost. Unfortunately [...]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) movie review screener!

by Chris   ⋅   October 15, 2003   ⋅   Comments [8]

At first I was completely opposed to the idea of remaking the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The film was perfect. How could they make anything better than what they already had? But after a while I thought about my favorite remakes of all time. Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Leonard Nimoy, Willard with [...]

Bubba Ho-Tep he-said-she-said movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 11, 2003   ⋅   Comments [5]

HE-SAID: Finally, a movie that didn’t disappoint me this week! After an extremely long wait, Bruce Campbell and Don Coscarelli’s latest has finally arrived.
I might as well just jump into the story. Bubba Ho-tep is the story of an elderly Elvis, stuck in a rest home. He had tired of fame and his scheming [...]

Stuck on You he-said-she-said movie review test-screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 9, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

CHRIS PONDERS the ‘Mendes Formula’: Hey guys, Kris and I just attended a test screening for Stuck on You, the Farrelly Brothers’ conjoined twin comedy starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Cher, and Eva Mendes. While technically not a full review, as they have a chance to fix many of the problems following the [...]

Intolerable Cruelty he-said-she-said movie review screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 9, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

HE SAID: Ah, this review has been in the cooker for 3 days now. It’s always harder to review a film you’re sort of indifferent to. I’ll tell you straight out that Intolerable Cruelty is a funny film, though not as frenetic and quirky as O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona, or Barton [...]

The Hills Have Eyes dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   October 7, 2003   ⋅   Comments [3]

DIVIMAX DVD REVIEW
Ah, The Hills Have Eyes. I first heard about the film at a boy scout camp way back in the 80’s. It was supposedly one of the coolest and scariest films our troop leader had seen. It took me about seven years to find the film, but once I did I was treated [...]

Kill Bill vol. 1 he-said-she-said movie review Screener! +japanese-cut dvd!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 7, 2003   ⋅   Comments [12]

WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS?
HE SAID: Kill Bill Vol. 1 is Quentin Tarantino’s loveletter to exploitation, grindhouse, and overall bad-taste cinema. He references absolutely everything he loves: De Palma, Switchblade Sisters, Shaw Brothers films (it actually opens with the shaw scope logo), Japanese samurai splatter, Italian Giallos, Master of the Flying Guillotine, etc, [...]

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