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X: Night Of Vengeance (2011)

X: Night Of Vengeance (2011)
The prostitute hoping to get away from it all and make a new life for herself. The young girl new to prostitution who learns a few harsh lessons quicker than she would have liked to. Accidental eyewitnesses to a crime that involves a corrupt officer of the law. None of these elements are new and [...]
February 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Bounty Hunters (2011)

Bounty Hunters (2011)
AKA Bail Enforcers. Apparently, Trish Stratus (who gets the lead role in this movie) is a former 7 time WWE women’s champion. I didn’t know this. I hadn’t even heard of Trish Stratus before seeing her in this movie. As you may have guessed, I just don’t watch wrestling. So perhaps...
February 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

ZIFT (2008)

ZIFT (2008)
Zift: Socialist Noir, the complete title of Vladislav Todorov’s cult 2006 novel, is perhaps as accurate a description of its 2008 film adaptation as you’re going to find – even then missing its gleeful comic-absurdism, poetic nihilism and unquenchable romance. Indeed, faithfully explaining...
February 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Miss Bala (2011)

Miss Bala (2011)
Miss Bala is an interesting film, a movie far superior in execution and style than it is in detail and any self-contained logic. For those wishing that action thrillers would nowadays somehow manage to still throw viewers right into the thick of the action without resorting to the queasy “shaky-cam”...
February 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Insect Woman (1963)

The Insect Woman (1963)
The latest release in the Masters of Cinema series is director Shohei Imamura’s The Insect Woman from 1963. The title evokes some kind of Kafkaesque horror movie, but in this case the title is metaphorical, referring to the resilience of women as they cope with the ordeals of a social order which automatically...
February 17th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

There Be Dragons (2011)

There Be Dragons (2011)
There Be Dragons is not the return of Roland Joffé. The name probably doesn’t mean anything to you. But this director made two brilliant movies in the 1980s, namely The Killing Fields and The Mission. These were intelligent, sensitive movies, which dealt with political, religious and humanitarian...
February 16th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Warrior (2011)

Warrior (2011)
I was expecting this film to be very much a Tom Hardy vehicle, which to say it isn’t is misleading, however, the star of this story and the film is not Hardy but rather Joel Edgerton of Animal Kingdom (2010) fame. Edgerton plays Brendan Conlon, a Physics teacher and a family man who is struggling [...]
February 15th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Restless (2011)

Restless (2011)
Straddling the divide between winsome indie twee and genuine idiosyncrasy, Gus Van Sant’s Restless was not high on my priorities list when it played during 2011′s LFF, largely thanks to its worrisome invocation of Harold And Maude (Ashby, 1971), one of my favorite films of all time . It...
February 13th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Abduction (2011)

Abduction (2011)
My PS3 loathed Abduction. Honestly, it did. After using the film’s closing credits to wipe away the tears and recompose myself into a presentable human state, I eagerly pressed the eject button on my console, an action which resulted in a loud jarring noise and the disc being spat – nay,...
February 10th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

How to Stop Being a Loser (2011)

How to Stop Being a Loser (2011)
After Hitch, Wedding Crashers and – most recently – Crazy Stupid Love, the wingman/buddy movie is slowly coming into vogue, establishing a canon all of its own. Though How to Stop Being a Loser treads very similar (read: derivative) ground, this unfunny mess sadly doesn’t sit well alongside its...
February 10th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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