(2005) dir. Peter Hyams
viewed: 04/23/06
I recall reading about this film when it came out last summer to zero fanfare. It’s an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury short story about people who go back in time and unsettle evolution with crazy results, including most impressively, these weird baboon lizards.
Featuring Edward Burns and Ben Kingsley, this [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2006
A Sound of Thunder
Hostel
(2005) dir. Eli Roth
viewed: 04/22/06
I have mixed feelings about this flick. The first part of it, with backpackers bouncing around Europe looking for sex, features some pretty lame dialogue and character development. It’s cultivating cliches about the whole tripping through Europe thing. It just kinda sucks.
Then when the violence hits, writer/director Eli Roth seems to [...]
Pulse
(2001) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
viewed: 04/16/06
An interesting, atmospheric supernatural thriller. It’s good, not great, in my book. I liked the strangeness and ghostly stuff. Atmosphere over gore, etc. It’s a child of Ringu (1998) in a sense with lots of subdued low-key shadowy figures who are scary because they hide behind their [...]
The Wild
(2006) dir. Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams
viewed: 04/15/06 at the Century 20 Daly City, Daly City, CA
It’s hard to believe that it’s taken me two months to get back to the movie theater, and maybe even harder to believe that when I finally got out, it was to see the latest feeble offering from Disney, The Wild. [...]
A History of Violence
(2005) dir. David Cronenberg
viewed: 04/08/06
I had been meaning to see this film in the theater and never made it. It was on a lot of top 10 lists and recommeneded to me by many people by word of mouth. I like Cronenberg pretty well, myself. It seemed like a pretty sure bet.
And [...]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(2005) dir. Andrew Adamson
viewed: 04/07/06
A lot of people reacted negatively to this film because of its Christian allegory. I think that the fact that it has a Chrisitian allegory is less problematic than the fact that a big part of the fact that this film got produced in the first place was an attempt [...]
Three… Extremes
(2004) dir. Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, Takashi Miike
viewed: 04/06/06
Oddly, these anthology style films, which always seem like an interesting concept, always seem to mostly suck. It’s usually that one director does particularly interesting work, maybe another does so-so work, and then the rest are pretty awful. Still, it seems like a good idea. [...]
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
(1963) dir. Roger Corman
viewed: 03/29/06
This is a cool little Roger Corman film about a doctor who creates a formula that he drops into his eyes in order to “see” further into things. Some points this is like X-ray seeing, some points he can just see through people’s clothes, and some points his vision crosses [...]
