Zoo (2007) — movie review

Director: Robinson Devor
Starring: John Paulsen, Coyote, Russell Hodgkinson
Genre: Documentary, Indie

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 I guess, but I didn’t [...]

Vibrator (2003) — dvd movie review

I reviewed Vibrator a while back, and you could say I didn’t really care for it. Kino now having sent me a review copy of their DVD, I figured I would check it out again. Since my initial review I’ve learned that actress Shinobu Terashima won a best actress award for her performance in Vibrator [...]

Tattooed Flower Vase — dvd movie review

Our second review title from Kino’s Nikkatsu collection, Tattooed Flower Vase, sees director Masaru Konuma at his most skilled, and most perverse [[If you haven't already, you'll want to read my review of his Erotic Diary of an Office Lady for necessary background]]. Visually the film is stunning, but the story itself is a [...]

My Tutor Friend — movie review

The Korean post-Sassy Girl romantic comedy is something of an oddity when compared to the American romantic comedy. A sort of strange synthesis of Nora Ephron naievete peppered with Three Stooges slapstick violence, more often than not the narrative involves a protagonist (male or female) who suffers a sizeable amount of humiliation or discomfort at [...]

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 [...]

My Sassy Girl (aka: Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo) — movie review

TWO-AND-A-HALF HOURS OF SASSY
A few of my friends had recommended this film, and it received an 8.0 on IMDB, so I figured maybe it would be worth checking out. Boy was I wrong.
To be honest, I can’t complain about the technical aspects of the film. Shot compostions, lighting, camerawork, and even the performances of the [...]

Love Object — he said, she said — movie review

HOW ROMANTIC ARE YOU? We were lucky enough to be able to catch one of the midnight Valentines Day screenings of Love Object at San Francisco’s Independent Film Festival.
HE-SAID: Inspired by the cadaverous “beauties” of RealDoll.com, Love Object is the story of Kenneth (Desmond Harrington), a socially inept technical writer who falls head over [...]