Archive for April, 2006
Take the Lead Winners
The Take the Lead contest is now over. Congratulations to our winners Samantha K, Kathy Y, Becky W, and Nicholas T!
New Acquisitions
While in the City today, Kris and I picked up the new Takeshi Kitano film: Blood and Bones. Expect a review once I finish the Pinky Violence Collection (Terrifying Girls’ High School and Criminal Woman: Killing Melody will be up this week). I’ve decided against reviewing the Promise, since the film is so…..blah. In the [...]
The Hills Have …. color?
That’s right, our shitty brown hills have turned a luscious shade of green thanks to this wonderful weather! I know, most Californians go running for cover at even the slightest hint of the mist which constitutes this state’s “rain”, but the past few weeks of said misting have allowed plants and grass to actually grow! [...]
Too Cute Cinema — Separated at Birth
This was a good weekend for pedophilia. Chris and I caught two flicks with very very pretty young lads in it: Lucky Number Slevin and Thank You for Smoking (reviews coming up). The former had a kid that looked like Eva Mendez (to me anyways), the latter had preteen cutie Cameron Bright, who [...]
Trump Bumps Proposed Spire
Possibly for his own gain, uhm what am I saying.. for his own gain, Donald Trump spoke out against the 124-story, 2000 ft tall Fordham Spire, arguing that it will be a terrorist target and even called its proposal “a charade” to the NY Times last year. But its elegant, twisty-turny, rubber-neck-inducing design by [...]
Iran.. just finishing what we started
Hey so the other day my friend emails me with the usual polite morning intro “wut r u doing?” and so I’m like “Worrying about Iran.. what else?” I don’t think that’s what he wanted to hear, but how can you ignore it when it’s driving gasoline prices up and up yet again. More importantly, [...]
Ghibli Time! Legend of Earthsea trailer
The Ghibli Blog has the trailer for the new Miyazaki endeavor, The Legend of Earthsea. Check it out here.
An Inconvenient Truth trailer is up
Finally a documentary about something other than politics or how cool aging skaters/surfers/etc were back in the old days. Yes, it’s a documentary about something important. Check out the trailer here.
[The Pinky Violence Collection] Girl Boss Guerilla — movie review
Like the great Seijun Suzuki, or today’s Takashi Miike, Norifumi Suzuki (Sex & Fury, Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom) was never content with making a straight genre piece, much less art. Suzuki sought to make films of interest to himself, often resulting in rapid tonal shifts from stylistic action, to gonzo comedy, to [...]
Odama on Gamecube
Whoa. I didn’t think this was going to come out here in the US, but it’s on sale at Fry’s this week! Odama’s a little hard to explain, as was Seaman, so check out the official site here.
101 Greatest Screenplays
So the Writers Guild of America, East have released their list of the 101 greatest screenplays. There are some interesting, and deserved entries throughout, but there are the occasional headscratchers. For example, Star Wars? Sure it’s a great film, but the dialogue is terrrible. And Shakespeare in Love? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was a [...]
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance — guest music review
When people first saw Timbaland with Bubba Sparxxx, they were probably thinking, “what is one of the greatest producers in hip-hop doing working with some pudgy white guy?” They probably would have been further confused by some of the songs on Bubba’s debut CD, Dark Days, Bright Nights which featured songs like “Bubba Talk” built [...]
[The Pinky Violence Collection] Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess movie review
The fourth entry in the Delinquent Girl Boss series, Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (aka:Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai) is widely considered the best of the series. The film sees Reiko (Reiko Oshida), the gang boss from the previous film, freshly released from prison and back on the mean streets of Shinjuku. [...]
The Pinky Violence Collection — dvd review
If there is one box set that has caught the eye of near every Japanese cult film enthusiast, it has to be Panik House’s Pinky Violence Collection. Its shocking pink trapper-keeper case houses four of the most renowned, well loved, hard to find sukeban pics from Toei’s infamous Pinky Violence run: Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless [...]
Marebito — movie review
A friend once jokingly said, “if you expect the worst from the world, you’ll never be disappointed”. Such must be the mantra of paranoid psychopaths like Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo, actor in Ichi the Killer) who wanders through Tokyo with his only friend (a video camera) and a supposed mission: to find others [...]
Former Masonic Temple Houses Artsy Circus
Masons used to roll their rituals at the Regency Center in San Francisco, but this Saturday they must have been rolling in their graves when it was converted into a carnaval complete with crazy acrobatics, trapeze artists, experimental DJs, clowns grooving P-Funkster stylee, cabaret stripteases… aka: SF Spectra Ball 2006.
Chris and I [...]
Take The Lead Contest
Nothin’s quite as rockin’ as free stuff. That’s why we’re giving away four posters from the New Line Cinema release, Take the Lead. For those that don’t know, Take the Lead is like Stand and Deliver, but with Ballroom Dancing instead of Calculus, and Antonio Banderas instead of Edward James Olmos (okay okay, actual synopsis [...]
Japanese How-To Videos
It’s Friday! And if that hasn’t got you smiling, here are some totally random how-to instructionals from Japan!
Checkity-check them out here.
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