10/28/2024 by Leo Barraclough Variety Film + TV German box office falls 16% for first nine months of 2024 Germany’s box-office takings in the first nine months of 2024 are down 16% year-on-year to €559m, according to provisional figures from Comscore.Around 57 million cinema tickets...
suggesting that he’d have been more comfortable making a documentary essay on Singapore’s land reclamation rather than a fiction feature using noir tropes as a means of making a statement. Wang is the most fully realized character, his edgy yet exhausted aura...
Last Night in Sohois the latest film by director Edgar Wright who has given such gems asShaun of the DeadandScott Pilgrim vs. the World.It is a movie heavily influenced by Hitchcock, De Palma (when he was copying Hitchcock), and Giallo films from actors Dario Argento and Mario Bava. Tha...
Dawn of the Dead (1978) dir George A. Romero You wouldn’t have The Walking Dead. You wouldn’t have the modern obsession with everything zombie. And it wasn’t Night of the Living Dead that did that. It was Dawn. It’s the reason horror nerds check out the local Costco and think...
But the moment is buried under baffling reused animation clips and the dangling questions of the shows’ own plot. What has been Seele’s goal all along? Gendo Ikari’s? What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? What were the Angels? What is this Human Instrumentality Project introduced in the show...
When I decided a couple of years ago to focus on just one page of a book when blogging about it, I intended it to be a way of cutting down on the time I spend on the blog, while still managing to have fun and hopefully say something interesting. It hasn’t always worked out that...
Ahead of this Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, we took a look at the actor’s most memorable movie performances.
A couple of months ago, I picked up a copy ofCan’t Spell Treason Without Tea. I promptly devoured it, and was delighted to learn that there was a book signing for the sequel,A Pirate’s Life for Tea, in the beginning of October. I’m currently in the midst of that book, loving...
seiner ikonischsten Momente schneidet Ron Fri-ckes experimenteller Dokumentarfilm Baraka (1992) von einer überfüllten Legebatte-rie auf einen Plattenbau und formuliert damit »a thematic visual critique of modernity,the industrial revolution and the subsequent dehumanisation of the population«...
I don’t think that this movie has enough in it to raise it up hire then the simple, low budget horror film that it is. In many ways it sands out while having a lot of the tropes you find in it brethren, but sometimes it seemed like they didn’t want to go the extra mile. Th...