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1d ago
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Years before the late South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s Bad Guy and even further before Kinji Fukusaku’s Street Mobster, Shochiku stalwart Noboru Nakamura unveiled his 1964 prostitution drama The Shape of Night which seemed to pave the way for the multicolored romantic longings of epicurean hedonism characterizing Wong Kar-Wai’s kaleidoscopic tales of people falling in and out of love. A movie signified by its luminous nighttime aesthete of Tokyo neon-fluorescent lighting and moody jazz infused score, the film was decades ahead of American ..read more
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2d ago
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The prolific filmmaking career of Luigi Comencini, perhaps Italy’s best director of child actors since Vittorio De Sica or the French director François Truffaut, remains curiously overlooked outside of Europe. The father of film directors Cristina and Francesca Comencini who worked with everyone from Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Comencini is perhaps best known for Everybody Go Home starring international cast members Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and Serge Reggiani. Known for attracting foreign talent ..read more
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2d ago
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Arrow Video and other boutique labels such as 88 Films have made it their mission to license and release through Fortune Star not only the Shaw Brothers back catalog of pulpy martial-arts actioners, but of former Shaw executive turned rival studio founder Raymond Chow and his Orange Sky Golden Harvest production company’s catalog as well. Founded in 1970 and only two years into the company’s lifespan, Chow also managed to lure over Shaw Brothers kung-fu action talent Jimmy Wang Yu in what became the actor’s third feature as lead actor, writer a ..read more
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3d ago
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We’ve seen many iterations of Batman’s arch-nemesis The Joker over the years. From Cesar Romero’s playful, ultra-campy iteration in the 1960s Batman television series to Heath Ledger’s darkly unhinged portrayal in The Dark Knight, the character has run the gamut of different personas. While many might feel like we’ve seen it all at this point, out comes a bold new contender from left field. Vera Drew’s imaginative film The People’s Joker simultaneously manages to embody all of the renditions of The Joker that came before it while also treading enti ..read more
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4d ago
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Something that isn’t discussed enough is just how large the land mass is in the United States. To drive from the east coast to the west coast would take about six days of continuous travel. Some states, like Texas, are so large that you can spend an entire day just trying to get out of the state. While there is a baseline “American experience” traveling to a different state can feel like visiting a different country complete with differing attitudes and ideologies.
The premise of Alex Garland’s Civil War is an undefined future where the US has sep ..read more
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5d ago
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Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1936 short story The Devil and Daniel Webster is one of the most unique slices of American fantasy-horror fiction with elements of realism integrated into the fabric of the narrative. The story of a New Hampshire farmer down on his luck who makes a pact with the devil to sell his soul for success for a seven-year duration only for a fictionalized version of real-life 19th century American lawyer Daniel Webster to defend the farmer’s soul in the court of law, The Devil and Daniel Webster was an award winning li ..read more
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1w ago
Note: Derelict was reviewed from a preview screener before its 2024 festival run.
On the surface, Derelict (2024) presents itself as a revenge story with all the requisite elements: a wrongful death, a family torn apart, and the failure of the justice system to dole out the appropriate punishment. The film opens with a visual tour of a crime scene that has yet to be discovered, a bound dead man lying facedown in a dirty alley, still fresh enough to look like he has decided to lay down for an impromptu nap. This is a snapshot of a murder, and it is spliced together with happy ho ..read more
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1w ago
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You’ve probably never heard of first-time Russian actor-writer-director Roman Olkhovka or his new science-fiction infused existential romantic drama Dreamover, only just now creeping out onto streaming platforms (albeit English dubbed on Vudu). And that’s okay because the Moscow set and based picture turned out to be a sweet and heartfelt little answer of sorts to the recent slew of romantic science-fiction spoken of the same breath as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Altered States, Vanishing Waves or more recently the Russian psychologic ..read more
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1w ago
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Albert Pyun was a former intern for Toshiro Mifune briefly attached to Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala before working as a film editor for several years before moving from Hawaii to Los Angeles, California to become a filmmaker. Landing a tenure at Cannon Films where he directed several martial-arts oriented cyberpunk action films usually featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pyun quickly earned a reputation (albeit unfairly) of being an Ed Wood for the 1980s. Truthfully, Pyun could churn out real rough and ragged B-exploitation action ..read more
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1w ago
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As a lifelong fan of The Omen series, I have learned to lower my expectations for each film that has followed the 1976 original.The 1976 is a nice slow burn with great performances all around that leaves a lasting impression. No small feat considering that this was released after The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby. I can recall being terrified just from hearing Jerry Goldsmith’s score. Add into this mix being brought up in a deeply devout Christian household and we’ve got a recipe for pure End Times prophecy and baby Anti-Christ terror.
All t ..read more