New Tarsem!!! The Fall trailer now online!

This looks amazing. Simply amazing. I’ll definitely be looking forward to this one. Check out the trailer.

Chapter 27 movie review screener!

Director: J. P. Schaefer
Starring: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan
Genre: Indie, Drama
Opens in San Francisco April 18th, 2008
I wrote the bulk of this review in March 2007 and am surprised at how neutral I was about the &%(@! subject matter. In light of the Beijing Olympics protests, this might be proper timing to remember someone [...]

Zoo (2007) movie review

Director: Robinson Devor
Starring: John Paulsen, Coyote, Russell Hodgkinson
Genre: documentary, indie
Release Date: April 27, 2007 (NY)

Okay, you’re going to think I’m a sicko, but when Chris told me there was a documentary made circumscribing events involving a richie being humped to death by a horse, I asked him to track the sucker down. Morbid curiosity [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS . 10,000 B.C., Doomsday, The Hammer

We’ve seen a number of films in the past few weeks, but just haven’t had the time to write them up. As such, here are a few quick catchup reviews. Stay tuned over the coming week for brief looks at Margot at the Wedding, Nightmare Detective, and more. On to the reviews.
10,000 B.C. . So [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [He-Said, She-Said] . Stuck

HE SAID
Unlike Diary of the Dead, the commentary found in Stuart Gordon’s latest is surprisingly subtle. Based on a true story, the film sees a health-worker hit a homeless man with her car following a late night dancing, drinking, drug session. Concerned with the loss of a possible promotion, she opts not to let anyone [...]

Whole movie review

In the age of express liposuck and lunch hour genitalia remodeling, what’s the big deal if someone wanted their leg removed? Is repeatedly shaving down your nose or shooting botulism into your brow any less crazy? Aren’t both cosmetic alterations developing from a societal urge to conform, an out-of-control fear of rejection? [...]

Teeth movie review he-said-she-said

HE SAID:
I was hoping to compare this to Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy, but Discotek never sent me a review copy (probably because I panned A Chinese Torture Chamber Story). Still, I have a feeling that what I saw in Teeth was infinitely funnier, grosser, and better thought out and executed than anything in that film. [...]

Bomb It! movie review screener!

Chris rolls his eyes at me but obligingly spins the car around, heading back towards something I whined about missing during our serendipitous in-motion drive-by photo-op. It’s a shell of a building seemingly built out of graffiti, layer upon layer of splayed and swirly signature scribbles or tags, but in this remote sketchy part [...]

Never Belongs to Me movie review he-said-she-said screener!

HE SAID:
Nympho teacher
cyborg schoolgirl hooker
penis gun
gay gangster
tiger man
crippled hands
tiger eat da penis…twice
Love makes you do crazy things.
Never Belongs to Me is quite possibly the weirdest film I will see this year. Far from the pretentious weird of last year’s Another Hole in the Head pick, Id, Never Belongs to Me is more the fun and [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [Screener] . Tokyo Loop

Clocking in at just seventy-five minutes, Tokyo Loop provides a collection of avant-garde animated shorts from Japan. Now, it’s important to note up front that the animation exhibited here is not anime. In fact, there’s nothing really stereotypically Japanese about any of them, save for the slightest hints at their Tokyo setting and one mildly [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [Screener] . This World of Ours (Oretachi No Sekai)

Remember being a senior in High School, drugging and raping underclassmen and making bombs filled with razor blade schrapnel? No? Maybe you were the self-mutilating waif with a penchant for instigating violence amongst your classmates. Not that either? Boy, times sure have changed, eh? Or maybe the epitaph left by [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Imagination

Paying major tribute to Jans Svankmajer, the Leiser brothers’ Imagination tells the tale of two twin sisters, one a sufferer of Asberger’s Syndrome, the other legally blind, who share a tendency toward retreating into imaginary realms, their visions and schemes border on the prophetic. While certainly intriguing to an outsider, all this slightly disturbs their [...]

Paranoid Park movie review screener!

Poor timing dealt from inopportune situations, that’s Paranoid Park’s premise. Highschooler/skateboarder (not necessarily in that order) Alex (sweet-faced, eternally Zoo York clad newcomer Gabe Nevins) went out to “see the freaks skate” at Paranoid Park (oh, you know it’s Burnside) one night in order to drown his own almost all-too-aloof adolescent angst (parents’ divorce, [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS [In Brief] [He Said, She Said] . Eastern Promises, Rise: Blood Hunter, Planet Terror

Okay, so I said I’d be back on my queue films again, but Kris and I had a rather busy weekend — albeit one packed to the brim with pure awesomeness. In fact, we were so busy, I only made it halfway through Tales from Earthsea. Still, we managed to squeeze in a couple great [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Man in the Chair

To be honest, when I first heard the title, I thought someone had adapted Edogawa Rampo’s The Human Chair. You know, the one about the crazy man who falls for an attractive woman, and then creates and delivers to her a Trojan-chair that conceals him in all his lecherous glory. It was only after reading [...]

DVD Drop-Box . Cougar Club, Nearing Grace, Sun Dogs *UPDATED*

Our second issue of Dreamlogic.net’s DVD Drop-Box brings us two titles from Vivendi Universal: Cougar Club and Nearing Grace. On with the show.
*UPDATE* And one from Palm Pictures: Snow Dogs.
Edit: It has been brought to my attention that Cougar Club is not a National Lampoon’s movie. Not sure where I picked that up, but [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Compound Eye [Mill Valley Film Festival]

Despite the proliferation of cheap digital recording mechanisms, cinema verite is something you don’t really see attempted these days. Sure, you have your Dogme style independent films, with their handheld DV camerawork and natural lighting, but the realism provided by their adherence to one or more of the movement’s 10 simple rules more often than [...]

New Puffy, Love Psychedelico, and Dragon Ash

So I’ve been getting a bit tired of the junk videos on YouTube, both content and quality wise, so I started looking around. I came across Veoh, which actually has a whole bunch of music videos and tv shows, at some pretty decent bitrates. Oh yah, and no 10 minute limitations on videos.
Anyways, here are [...]