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This World of Ours (aka: Oretachi no Sekai) — movie review — screener!
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 [...]
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, [...]
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (aka: 4.6 Billion Years of Love) — he said, she said — movie review
HE SAID
Ah, Takashi Miike. I think I’ve covered him enough in previous reviews to forgo the usual introduction. I mean, his popularity has grown to the point where I’ve even heard little children mentioning his name in excited tones at the local video store (I would imagine he would have it no other way). So [...]
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean movie review
When I first picked up Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean I expected a standard, rather boring WWII submarine flick from the other side of the Pacific. Then I found out it was a WWII submarine flick with Koji Yakusho, which made it seem it might be a little less boring, but didn’t really [...]
MOVIE REVIEW [In Brief] . Love and Honor (aka: Bushi no ichibun)
Based on the novel by Shuuhei Fujisawa, Love and Honor (aka: Bushi no ichibun, The Poison Taster) tells the tragic tale of Shinnojo Mimura (Takuya Kimura) a spoiled young samurai, a poison taster for a feudal lord, struck blind after a toxic meal. Thereafter rendered a “useless” person the samurai is rendered housebound, the once [...]
Hula Girls — in brief — movie review
The true story of the founding of Iwaki Prefecture’s Spa Resort Hawaiians, Hula Girls tells of the former mining town’s 1965 attempt to reinvent itself in the face of an energy technology paradigm shift. Faced with massive layoffs due to oil’s rising popularity over coal, an enterprising man seeks to make the cold little town [...]
2007’s Films We Would Watch Again (and some we would not)
So it’s time for another go round of Dreamlogic.net’s “Best o’ the Year Picks”. For those who aren’t familiar, this is basically our list of favorite films for the year. These are not necessarily films that are of high technical or artistic merit, or those which have received major critical praise. Instead, this is [...]
SF’s Noir City 6 hits Castro Jan 25 - Feb 3
Press Release below:
NOIR CITY 6
January 25 - February 3, 2008
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
The most fabulous Film Noir festival on earth returns to darken the Bay City
and delight the most dedicated moviegoers in the world. Presented by the Film
Noir Foundation, whose mission is to “rescue and restore America’s noir
heritage,” this year’s festival continues its tradition of [...]
A Chinese Torture Chamber Story — dvd movie review
Ah, the classic Category III film. Their slew of absurd violence, near always strung together by a nonsensical plot, haphazard camerawork, and out-there acting, really make these an acquired taste — and quite possibly one that is easy to grow out of. For, as much as I have enjoyed the shocking lack of artistry delivered [...]
Dororo — movie review
Let’s get this out of the way. I loved Dororo. I thought it was a whole lot of fun. In fact, I found it far more fun than any of the summer films I’ve seen all year. If that’s enough of a recommendation, by all means stop here and go find yourself a copy. However, [...]
Michael Clayton — movie review
I don’t think I’d have much respect for George Clooney if he had remained a fluff celeb cashing in on his devilish smirks and self-effacing clever humor. Instead he ambitiously strives to pursue political platforms, balancing entertainment and ethics. (We share a birthdate, along with Freud and Rudolph Valentino, thinker and feeler respectively, [...]
Wristcutters: A Love Story movie review
Chris and I saw the quirky black comedy Wristcutters: A Love Story nearly a month ago, but at least it’s not out in wide release across the country/globe just yet, so this is still pretty early, hehe.
“When there is trap/ set up for you/ in every corner of the room”.. oops, sorry. That’s [...]
Udon — movie review
It’s always sad when a film you’ve waited to watch disappoints. It’s even worse when it bombs. Udon has been in our queue for near three months now, and now that we’ve finally seen it, we have another entry on our list of the worst films we’ve seen this year.
The basic story of Udon concerns [...]
Battle of Okinawa — dvd movie review — early!
War films are easily one of my least favorite genres, not so much for the content, but for its tendency to sensationalize and glorify tragic events. Admittedly in recent years we have seen a drift from the norms (ie: Sam Mendes’ Jarhead and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima), [...]
Gone Baby Gone — movie review
Things are never what they seem. Scratch that. People are never what they seem. Abusive parents media-broadcasting fibs (one woman microwaved her infant last year, recent forensic details disproved her previous alligator-teared account), crooked cops, dirty drug dealers, pedophiles… who’s left to trust? Good thing in a small town (inhabited by [...]
Eastern Promises — Rise: Blood Hunter — Planet Terror — he said, she said — movie reviews
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 [...]
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