Bizarre-o Super Mario — man-made lightning and other crazy instruments

You’ve probably seen/heard the accordion and the orchestral Mario Theme versions, but WAIT until you see these amazing renditions done on everything from a cellphone to man-made lightning. WTF wow.
Beer Bottles and RC Car

Lightning generated by Tesla coils

Hand farting

Beatboxing into a Flute

Cell phone

Theremin (the “meow mix”)

11-string Bass

Happiness of the Katakuris (aka: Katakuri-ke no Kofuku) — dvd movie review — early!

Only by concealing a series of deaths and by burying the corpses of their guests, facing a brush with death themselves, oh, and an erupting volcano, will they eventually learn to repair their drift.

Beef and Tomato Glamourpuss Fashion — Ad Alarm Video

Japanese McDonald’s Advertisements
Like Eiji Wentz gone Kool-Aid in his Gegege no Kitaro garb; above the obvious, I find it slightly off that he pulls it out of his rump.
This one’s for the Ladies:

Seemingly heavy Adam & Eve theme pictured at the end… TAKE the tomato.
This one’s for the Men:

Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness — movie review — early!

Nevermind the excitement of almost plummeting to your death in an abandoned silo or tripping a silent pressure-sensitive alarm, there’s excitement in stepping into a realm that time and people have forgotten… a building that used to be a central hub of everyone’s lives, but now (barely) standing.

Synecdoche, New York — he said, she said — movie review — screener!

Ironically, when presented in such a lackadaisical, fatalist farse, it’s enlightening and reassuring to realize how much control we really do have over our lives.

Trailer for Wayne Coyne’s Christmas on Mars is now up!

I’m a Flaming Lips fan, so this is something pretty exciting. I remember seeing little bits of Coyne’s progress on Christmas On Mars way back in the Fearless Freaks documentary, but I never expected the film would actually get a theatrical release. It’s just a trailer though, so I’ll stop talking and let you see [...]

Sukeban Boy (aka: Oira Sukeban) — dvd movie review — early!

Director: Noboru Iguchi
Starring: Asami, Kaori, Demo Tanaka, Kentaro Kishi, Risa Mizuki
Genre: Sukeban
Directed by Noboru Iguchi, the wild mind behind this year’s standout, Machine Girl, Sukeban Boy (aka: Oira Sukeban) sees the first screen adaptation of Go Nagai’s lesser known hero/ine. Essentially a repackaging of Panty Mask and Kekko Kamen, Sukeban Boy sees another heroine in [...]

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead — movie review — screener!

Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham
Genre: Cult Cinema, Exploitation, Horror
San Francisco Premiere: July 18 at the Roxie Theater [Buy Tickets]

If Grease was gross, it’d be Poultrygeist. Of course, it’d also have topless lesbian activists, explosive diarrhea gags, racism, gore, zombies, and bestiality by a pseudo Dustin Diamond (Screech), not to mention a Ron [...]

The Fall — movie review

Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru
Genre: Comedy, Curious, Fantasy
I fell for The Fall. Hard.
And it’s not just the voluptuous visuals, although Tarsem and Director of Photography Colin Watkinson supply one sumptuous scene after another, with upshots of a swimming elephant, an M.C. Escher staircase grid o’ closing enemies, swishing swirling clergymen [...]

Wool 100% — dvd movie review

Director: Mai Tominaga
Starring: Kyoko Kishida, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Genre: Japan, Curious, Fantasy
With the whimsy of The Shoe Fairy (which had the whimsy of Amelie) and the languid fluidity of a glorified French film spurns Wool 100%, a Japanese movie with a European pulse. Vivid visuals and an enigmatic aura enhances the stark lack of dialogue and [...]

Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (aka: Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san) — movie review

Director: Kankuro Kudo
Starring: Shichinosuke Nakamura, Tomoya Nagase
Genre: Japan, Comedy, Curious, Fantasy
See it at SF Indie’s Another Hole in the Head June 2008!
Everyone loves a roadtrip movie. Maybe even a gay roadtrip movie. How about a couple of Edo era gay samurai who are forbidden to ride their motorcycle (by famed Susumu Terajima, no [...]

Exte: Hair Extensions (aka: Ekusute) — movie review

Director: Sion Sono
Starring: Chiyaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Tsugumi
Genre: Horror, Supernatural
This film will be screening at SF Indie’s Another Hole in the Head 2008, June 5, 10, and 14. Click here for showtimes.
Sion Sono’s latest picture has been covered on so many other sites that I’m afraid this review might be a bit superfluous. As [...]

Bohachi Bushido Code of the Forgotten Eight — dvd review — early!

Director: Teruo Ishii
Starring: Tetsuro Tanba, Yuriko Hishimi
Genre: Japan, action, action
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Now, I’m no stranger to Kazuo Koike or Teruo Ishii. I’ve seen the films (and in cases television series) based off of Koike’s Lone Wolf and Cub, Crying Freeman, Demon Spies, Lady Snowblood (even read the manga), and have seen a bit [...]

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.

Funky Forest: The First Contact movie review

Directors: Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine (aka: Aniki),and Shunichiro Miki
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Susumu Terajima, Kazue Fukiishi, Rinko Kikuchi
Genre: Japan, Comedy
I’ve come to dig the works of Katsuhito Ishii over the course of his three previous theatrical releases. Sharkskin and Peach Hip Girl was endlessly hilarious. Party 7 was a bit of a nosedive, but [...]

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? [...]

Erotic Diary of an Office Lady . dvd movie review

As mentioned in our Dreamlogic update, we’ve received three of Kinos’s recent Nikkatsu titles for review. I figured, why not start with the most provocatively titled one first? So, Erotic Diary of an Office Lady it is.
Again, this being the first film we’ve reviewed belonging to the “Roman Porno/Pinku” genre we’ve actually reviewed, an introduction [...]

Never Belongs to Me — he said, she said — movie review — 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 [...]