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Hadouken! - Music for an Accelerated Culture — music review

by Kris   ⋅   November 10, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

If you love slick speak, thick layered sounds, quick synthesizer bender-ing (think electronic slide whistle), look no further than Leeds’ Hadouken!’s debut, Music for an Accelerated Culture.

CSS - Donkey — music review

by Kris   ⋅   August 22, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

Don’t you hate it when bands you like — and you like them partially because no one’s ever heard of them — are featured on TV commercials? CSS’ ‘Music is my Hot Hot Sex’ serenaded some spinning iPod Touch, making me quite sad for a quite long twenty seconds, but then, who can stay [...]

M.I.A. - Kala — music review

by Kris   ⋅   July 25, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

M.I.A. You might have seen her in the Marc Jacobs ads. You might have heard her on the Vexille soundtrack or the Pineapple Express trailer. You might have heard her and thought she was Lady Sovereign getting funkified as I did when I first heard ‘20 Dollar’ last year, a mish-mash of [...]

Stuck — he said, she said — movie review — screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   February 26, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

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 [...]

Imagination — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   January 20, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

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 [...]

We Are the Strange — movie review

by Kris   ⋅   June 5, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

This review is so long overdue that a serendipitous run-in with the writer/director prompted a strict reminder. M Dot Strange (aka: Michael Belmont) is so completely casual and San Jose-centric that he frequents a local boba tea place, even today as he types out an article for Wired Magazine (August issue — be [...]

Murder Party — he said, she said — movie review — screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   May 28, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

Murder Party
SHE SAID:
Somewhere there is a man who looks like Chris Elliot, but you will actually care if he dies. Chris Sharp plays Christopher S. Hawley, a totally blah, totally random alprazolam-popping traffic cop whose sorry socialization solely involves interactions with his cat. One Halloween, when the battle for the armchair is again lost to [...]

The Motel — dvd review

by Chris   ⋅   February 14, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

Michael Kang’s The Motel, an adaptation of Ed Lin’s Waylaid, is a painfully funny take on adolescence and the inherent isolation felt by those undergoing puberty. It is the tale of a thirteen year-old boy, Ernest Chin, whose family runs and lives in a low rate motel along a New Jersey bypass road. Being that [...]

Thumbsucker — movie review

by Kris   ⋅   September 10, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

“It’s an understandable habit… what’s strange is that people ever quit.” Words of wisdom from shamen/orthodontist Perry (Keanu Reeves) right before he hypnotizes Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci), a 17-year-old chronic thumb abuser. “From now on, your thumb will taste like echinachea”, and it does. It “cures” Justin of his affliction, but not [...]

Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star — indie in brief movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 24, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

So we’re starting a new segment at Dreamlogic.net, reviewing short film submissions by local filmmakers. Our first Submission comes to us from San Francisco’s Jeffrey Lei. A mockumentary about a fictional Asian male porn megastar in the 1970’s titled, simply enough, Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star.
A mix of Big Foot documentary and television’s Unsolved [...]

Cat Power - Moon Pix — music review

by Kris   ⋅   December 3, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

If Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) and Fiona Apple had a vocal offspring, it would be Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power. If you know me, you know why this name initially grabbed me (wow go kitties!), but the exaggerated slo-mo stylings, bare-bones instrumentation and strange scraggly drawl-singing are what kept me listening.
So it’s [...]

Eisley - Room Noises — music review

by Kris   ⋅   October 28, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

The Corrs, BeeGees, now the DuPrees, better known as Eisley. What do these groups have in common? Sibling power! Imagine sharing your most intimate aspirations and errs with your kin and with your ever-supportive ever-videotaping father chronicling the entire process. Well, it doesn’t seem to bother the DuPree kids, who have [...]

Ima Robot - (self-titled) — music review

by Kris   ⋅   October 8, 2005   ⋅   Comments [5]

I didn’t want to like Ima Robot, but just couldn’t help it. I blame it in parts: 1/2 due to its pristine new wave heavy pop-punk revamp with 1/4 devoted to Jello Biafra soundalike (and ex-rapper) Alex Ebert, 1/4 ‘cos it makes vacuuming fun. Worried it would be a one-hit wonder album, [...]

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