Posted in Documentary, Netflix, Review on April 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’ve all seen Eastern Promises, right? Or you’re at least aware of it, I assume?
If you haven’t been living in a ’50’s-style bomb shelter, then you remember tatted-up Viggo Mortensen as a Russian gangster in Eastern Promises. The Mark of Cain is a documentary about the significance of tattoos in Russian prison culture (which would [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Netflix, Review on April 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Lars (Ryan Gosling) is a guy who is lacking in the social skills department. He lives in a small town where his place of residence is the guesthouse of his family’s property. His brother Gus and sister-in-law Karen live in the main house. He works a boring job and goes to church, but his painful [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Review on April 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yes, I see you in this movie, Daniel Day-Lewis.
Gerry Conlon is a thief and general ne’er-do-well in Belfast, Ireland. His much more law-abiding family ships him off to London with the hope he’ll reform his ways and straighten up. Instead, Conlon and his friend fall in with a commune of hippies, stirring up jealousy and [...]
Posted in Blog Notes on April 16, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Note to Worst Movies Ever Winners: Your prizes still haven’t gone out because I’m waiting to hear back from two of you…
But I do have a movie to give away to anyone who wants it. No, it’s nothing super fancy, but you know, after all the arms discussion on the blog recently, I couldn’t resist [...]
Posted in Movies In General on April 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Eli Roth’s making a big, blockbuster New-York-gets-destroyed kinda movie. Via Slashfilm.
He won’t discuss what’s going on in the film, just that it’s on the level of Cloverfield, but it’s something completely different. Maybe Eli’s making When Fanboys Attack or something of that ilk. (At least that’s what they’re going to do over this movie, as [...]
Posted in Horror, Netflix, Review on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The dead are losers!”
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is…well…it’s lame. Look, I know it’s unpopular to some extent. It’s viewed as a cult classic by a lot of fellow horror geeks but goddamn, is it ever boring.
A theater troupe goes to a local island to mess around, be overly melodramatic and dig up some [...]
Posted in Letters to Quentin on April 13, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Yo, Q:
I know you catch a lot of shit for cameoing in your own movies. Sure, sometimes they’re not that good and sometimes, they are – and sometimes you’re in other folks’ movies being a delectable freakshow and a half (see: From Dusk ‘Til Dawn). I’m just saying that my favorite cameo of yours is [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Review on April 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Damien O’Donovan is mild-mannered young doctor from County Cork, Ireland. Living in 1920’s Ireland is no picnic as the opening of the film demonstrates. Damien and friends are out playing a variation of stickball when a squad of Black and Tans arrives. They begin to beat and humiliate the assembled folks by forcing the men [...]
Posted in Horror, Netflix, Review on April 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s Fulci time! Yay! Fake blood and entrails for everybody!
If you don’t know who Lucio Fulci is, well, let me make the appropriate introductions. Mainly known as a horror director, Fulci was an Italian guy who made movies with explicit gore and really bad dubs. My first Fulci movie was picked up at an old, [...]
Posted in Hot Old Men on April 5, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Behold, friends, Romans and countrymen, and lend me your eyes, for I give you gratuitous Robert Downey, Jr.:
I’d like to say I was there on the RDJ-Love Train from the beginning, but I wasn’t. I’m so glad Iron Man has brought him back on the radar of Hot Dudes, because he stole a chunk of [...]
