Newest Reviews
I'm mostly posting reviews on my blog these days. I'll post the links here. In fact, there are a raft of new links to my blog here, so enjoy, and by all means, comment if you're a reader. The nice thing about blogs is that they're more prone to dialogue than this stand-alone site ever was.
As always, Horror movies remain the watchword of the day. The maturation of the DVD marketplace is making tons of previously rare material available for a pittance. These are good times to be a fan of movies of all stripes, regardless of the relative weakness of the theatrical product. There's good stuff out there in the world at large, but the business model of late capitalist media has a vested interest in keeping it out of sight. Fortunately, the internet makes this practically impossible. As we come to the end of the "aughts," it's clearer to me now more than ever that the last twelve years (as I write this) have been one of the horror genre's golden ages.
In any event, here are the latest reviews that I've posted:
The Choirboys: More Robert Aldrich, on the downward slope.
Talk to Her: Willful pervsity.
Shock: Vincent Price in the ascendancy.
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue: What's in a name?
I Am Love : Grand and grandiose.
Despicable Me: Brimstone and treacle. Mostly treacle.
The Blood Spattered Bride: Marriage counselling.
Ichi: the blind leading the blind.
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird: The good with the bad.
Beneath Still Waters: Ersatz Dagon.
Winter's Bone: On the mean streets of the Ozarks.
Please Give: Liberal guilt in the city.
The Big Knife: They smile in your face...
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut): A second chance at redemption.
The Secret of the Kells : Book of secrets.
The Secret in Their Eyes: A thousand pasts and no future.
Interview with the Vampire: Don't let the sun go down on me.
Perversion Story: an imp of the perverse.
Humanoids from the Deep: Breeding time.
The Holy Girl: Holier than thou.
Tiresia: Turning a blind eye...
Piranha: The fish story as meta-text.
The Square: One damned thing after another...
The Empire Strikes Back: Skywalker in the underworld.
Mother: Mother is, what's the phrase? Not quite herself today .
Pontypool: Talking a blue streak.
Passage to Marseille: Wheels within wheels.
Melinda and Melinda: doubling down.
Iron Man 2: Rust never sleeps.
Red Without Blue: Capturing the Fairleys
Prodigal Sons: You can't go home again.
Nana: where is Shonen Knife when you need them?
It Might Get Loud: or it might not.
I Sell the Dead: Down among the dead men.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Chasing the Dragon
The Red Riding Trilogy: Seeing red.
Kick-Ass: Juvenile delinquency.
Jennifer's Body: sisters doing it for themselves.
Blast of Silence: a blast from the past..
A Serious Man: Job redux, seriously...
Clash of the Titans (2010): Tremendous resources misapplied
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger: Harried and Harryhausened
The Great Silence: Silence is golden
Angels and Demons : Angelic visitations
Revanche: A dish best served cold
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad: We are stardust, we are golden...
The Ghost Writer: Polanski's last stand(?)
Dawn of the Dead (2004): revisited
Goldeneye: Crush me with your thighs
True Lies: Bitch, bitch, bitch
Hancock: the superhero as scumbag
The Hurt Locker: War is the drug
Princesa: trans on the mean streets of Milan.
Chocolate: every kind of kung-fu known to girls.