So, I don’t get paid for doing this. I do it because I enjoy watching films and television and writing about them. It helps me to review stuff critically from both a creative perspective and absorb knowledge for when I make my own low budget films. Also, it’s something to do isn’...
Cinema has always had to defend itself against the pressures of business and capital, and yet, because filmmaking remains expensive (contrary to the false digital fantasies of “cheap” cameras), it is business and capital that continues to keep cinema going. This contradiction of conditions deepen...
Thoughts on Jia Zhangke’s 24 City 對賈樟柯新電影《24城記》之隨想 Uncategorized Desultory thoughts on why I didn’t like Slumdog Millionaire movies,Reviews Movies I’m Watching: Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders movies,politics,Reviews ...
The movie also benefits from some exotic locations (apparently filmed in Hawaii, not Africa) and an impressive score by Elmer Bernstein (even if the title track sounds like a combination of Monty Norman's theme for "Call Me Bwana" combined with "The Banana Boat Song".) There's even an a...
Hallucinogenic drugs must be rather popular and cheap in Slovenia these days...When Zizek showed the bathtub hole in the "Psycho" shower scene, I thought he was going to say something about galactic black holes; how they drain the life out of stars just as the bathtub hole sucks in Janet...
…meanwhile, Hudson was hanging in there with innovations such as the “Electric Hand”…it was not a true automatic transmission, but it did allow drivers to shift gears near the steering wheel… …as demonstrated here… …whatever you were driving, Goodyear claimed it would keep you the sa...
You know…cheap f/x, tacky production values, a straight-to-video approach. When Ridley Scott directs (“Alien,”“Prometheus”) you expect top-of-the-line everything…except, perhaps in the script department. But “Alien Romulus” looks great, and even has been designed with tongue firmly...
The budgeting was so cheap that a director was lucky if he earned half of the amount budgeted to pay for the fake blood required for the violent scenes. The whole casts & crews were underpaid too. Overall, Five Pattern Dragon Claws is a Kung Fu potboiler that’s at it’s best when ...
If you haven't seen the 2003 film "Owning Mahowny", put it on your "Must Watch" list if you have Amazon Prime. If you don't have Amazon Prime, consider purchasing the DVD (it has not available on Blu-ray). I was unaware of the movie but in browsing through Prime's seemingly endl...
34 years later, many locals fondly recall the time Hollywood came to Lancaster County and how many were involved in some peripheral way.The phenomenon has certainly died down, but for many years, was credited with an unprecedented increase in tourism in the area.Some locations, such as Zimmerma...