You may or may not have heard of french director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but you’ve most likely heard of at least one of his critically acclaimed and award winning films, Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement or Amelie. If not then you should add them all to your Netflix queue immediately because...
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Although I lived through the internet boom in the ’90s I was too young to give a shit as to what was going on so documentaries on the subject fascinate and somewhat depress me. When I was jerking off and playing sports as a young teenager, uber nerds that were only a few years older...
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Otherwise known as the “Banksy Documentary”, Exit Through The Gift Shop has been hyped like crazy since it’s screening at Sundance this year and rightfully so as everything Banksy does is hyped (or over hyped). Going into this film I thought I was in for a full tutorial on the life and times of the...
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To some of you this is old news but I’ve found that most people under the age of 35 have never heard of The King of Comedy, let alone know that its one of Martin Scorsese’s finest films. Admittedly, this is a little like saying that Ding Dongs are the best Hostess cake, as in...
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We’ve all heard of the Blaxploitation movement of the 70′s with movies like Super Fly and Shaft but Ozploitation? Ask most Americans and we basically know Australia for their good looking broads, partying ways, kangaroos, and their packs of blood thirsty gangs roving a post-apocalyptic desert waste land a la Mad Max. This is basically...
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Lately there have been a number of very good American films that have come out and that I encourage you to see (Alice in Wonderland, The Ghost Writer, The Crazies) but I also think its important to see some of what the film makers who aren’t in Hollywood have to offer, especially if they are...
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With everyone debating on whether or not Scorsese’s Shutter Island is worth seeing and the twist/non-twist at the end, another quality film from a big time director has gone somewhat under the radar. The marketing for Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer hasn’t been nearly as close as the huge spend on Shutter Island even though...
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Bronson is a small film I’ve been hearing about since its small release in early ’09 but have known no one whose seen it to confirm or deny that it was as amazing as I’d been hearing. It was finally released on DVD a week or so ago so I jumped on it as fast...
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The Oscar nominations are now out and whether or not I agree with them is meaningless, what’s most important is winning my office Oscar pool. This is important for a few reasons, a) its highly competitive and therefore good times, b) I can win a solid stack of duckets but I’d be happy to just...
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In the dark, cold, wasteland that is the winter months of cinema it’s really slim pickin’s for quality content out there. Much like my local old chinese lady, one has to dig through heaps of trash (When in Rome, Tooth Fairy, Book of Eli, Legion, Lovely Bones, etc) to find a few worth while bottles...
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