(2008) dir. Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel
viewed: 02/26/10
I’d been on a little horror jag for the day, not planned, though I’d queued all the films up and they were all sitting here, waiting to be watched. No planning. No plan. The only theme being that they were recent horror films. I’d watched the moderately entertaining Norwegian [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Deadgirl
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
(2009) dir. Ti West
viewed: 02/26/10
As you can probably guess from the title of this film, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, an unfortunate title any way you slice it, this film is the sequel to the film Cabin Fever (2002), the film that put Eli Roth onto the the film world. Though Roth also directed Hostel (2005), he’s [...]
Dead Snow
(2009) dir. Tommy Wirkola
viewed: 02/26/10
When you’ve seen one Norwegian Nazi zombie movie, you’ve seen ‘em all.
That said, it’s not all that often these come along.
Dead Snow, I think I just summarized it reasonably well for you, is your typical horror genre film, a bunch of young people in an isolated cabin (in this case in [...]
The Last Station
(2009) dir. Michael Hoffman
viewed: 02/23/10 at the Albany Twin Theater, Albany, CA
The Last Station is a film about the turbulent last year in the life of a great writer and the love of his life. In this case, the great writer is Leo Tolstoy in his 80’s and the love of his life is his [...]
Whip It
(2009) dir. Drew Barrymore
viewed: 02/22/10
I’ve liked Drew Barrymore since I first saw her as Gertie in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) when she was all of about 6 years old. I was charmed like many people by her and saw her in Firestarter (1984) and Cat’s Eye (1985). And while I didn’t follow her career exactly [...]
Old Joy
(2006) dir. Kelly Reichardt
viewed: 02/20/10
A movie about a couple of guys who go camping, find a hidden hot springs, take a bath and chat. What’s not to like, right? Honestly, I’ve never been one for camping. And watching two guys go camping in a movie lacks the inconvenience of really doing it yourself, but not [...]
Holy Smoke
(1999) dir. Jane Campion
viewed: 02/20/10
Since watching An Angel at My Table (1990) and Bright Star (2009) last year, I’ve been on a determined path to catch up by watching all of director Jane Campion’s films. No real order to this, so I’ve selected a sort of odd film of hers here, 1999’s Holy Smoke which [...]
Red Riding: 1983
(2009) dir. Anand Tucker
viewed: 02/16/10
The final part of the Red Riding Trilogy, Red Riding: 1983 wraps up the narratives of Red Riding: 1974 (2009) and Red Riding: 1980 (2009), though with much more focus on 1974 than the other. As with the other films, this one is adapted from the final book of David Peace’s [...]
The Wolfman
(2010) dir. Joe Johnston
viewed: 02/15/10 at CineArts @ the Empire Theater, SF, CA
The latest Hollywood re-make in the theaters is the new Benicio Del Toro-starring re-do of the Universal “classic” The Wolf Man (1941). While it would be probably erroneous to say that the film doesn’t represent further creative bankruptcy and cynnical re-heating of Hollywood [...]
Red Riding: 1980
(2009) dir. James Marsh
viewed: 02/10/10
Red Riding: 1980 is the second of the film trilogy Red Riding made initially for England’s Channel 4. This installment is directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire (2008)) and follows Red Riding: 1974. While the whole series, adapted by Tony Grisoni from a series of books by David Peace, follows [...]
