Just a reminder: Pogo is still creating fantastic music. Head over to his channel to catch up on the latest (or—if unfamiliar—to experience something enjoyably-new). If this "mature content" video is not your cuppa...he has a wonderful collection of Disney (I highly recommend Wishery).
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Pogo - Lead Breakfast
Just a reminder: Pogo is still creating fantastic music. Head over to his channel to catch up on the latest (or—if unfamiliar—to experience something enjoyably-new). If this "mature content" video is not your cuppa...he has a wonderful collection of Disney (I highly recommend Wishery).
Gravity - review (☆☆☆☆☆)
Remember how you were stunned and amazed by Kubrick's 2001 in the late 60's, or whenever you finally saw it for the first time? That's how Gravity will make you feel (only with all the unexpected thrills of 2010's Buried and without all the science fiction...just a full serving of science fact).
Wasn't Pam already on the small screen?
Yes. She was also an extra on Portlandia (Season 3, Episode 11). She is on-screen, tending the campfire, between minutes 9:57 and 10:59 (when Fred and Carrie convince the Mayor to return to Portland). It is available at this time on DVD or download-viewable on Netflix.
My paramour is on the big screen
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My fiancee is a bona fide movie star.
Stoker - film review (☆☆☆☆)
As previously mentioned (more than enough times to suffice) I 'look to the director'—who in this case was Park Chan Wook.
That's enough information for fans of the film Oldboy and/or his 'Vengence Trilogy'. But for those unfamiliar with his films because they're foreign and subtitled, well...fuck on off and go away...you shouldn't be reading these opinions...there must be a Michael Bay film you could re-watch.
Still reading? Then I presume you like Mr Park's style of films and you'll not be disappointed by the amount of painstaking detail he devoted on every scene, every facial expression, and especially on every silence in this one. His pacing, score, and dialogue (which is English; his first, I believe) are all crafted with exquisite care. There isn't a second of film in Stoker which hasn't been carefully included with forethought. See it immediately.
Killer Joe - review (☆☆☆☆)
Although I don't think everything William Friedkin has directed is worthy of a standing ovation (or even your applause in some cases) Killer Joe combines the Grit he captured in The French Connection with nearly the same quality of Visceral he achieved in The Exorcist.
The script, written by Tracy Letts, is tight and near-perfect. The actors (all five of them) could not have been better. In fact, until I saw this performance, I thought Matthew McConaughey was a bland movie actor playing the same dude in different clothes.
This film wasn't seen in many theaters because of its NC17 rating (which still scares the distributors away) but is now available on red envelope slash box slash download. Find it.
Post script for blood-relatives: If you accidentally read this and decide to follow my advice and find this film - stop. If you're someone I talk to and I haven't personally told you about this film? That's because I know you won't like it. You'll be revolted by the violence, sickened by the sex and nudity, and disgusted by the raw and ugly story. My second paragraph was supposed to point that out. "But" you might say, "I liked The Exorcist and French Connection"; and then I might reply, "those films were edgy forty years ago; this film is edgy today".
Jesus Henry Christ - review (☆☆☆☆)
Although Wes Anderson had no part in the production of this film, the director—Dennis Lee—is to Wes Anderson as Blind Melon is to Led Zeppelin.Jesus Henry Christ is one of those 'hidden gem' feel-good films that (unfortunate for those who enjoy intelligently scripted, well-acted, films on the big screen) slipped in-to and out-of theaters almost a year ago without notice...mine, yours, or anyone else's. It's now available on all home-viewing formats. To miss it now is nobody's downloadable fault but your own.
It's not as whack-a-doodle as a Wes Anderson, but in many places it looks, feels, and sounds so much like a Royal... Aquatic... duck... (named Rush) that one may desire to pause the film and check IMDB to determine if, maybe, Mr Anderson was some kind of Producer (He was not, Julia Roberts was).
also don't continue to avoid:
Cancer The Forbidden Cures
Got 90 minutes to learn why I distrust every person who has worked, is working, or will work in the medical profession?
Deconstruction of Zeitgeist using the Bloody Socks Rule
This is not a review of the film Zeitgeist—there are more than enough reviews (debunkings, addendums, etc)—instead, this is a brief examination of the film’s ideas and theories utilizing the Bloody Socks Rule as a litmus. Although no new or original information is proffered by the director, Peter Joseph, because this film is slickly produced and smoothly edited it's much easier to watch than its progenitors.
It’s not unfair to compare the opening act with a barker filling the theater. The director sets the stage describing the building blocks early religious leaders utilized to construct the christian faith. Anyone who wants to itemize Mr. Joseph's erroneous statements should understand that none of his details matter. It's completely irrelevant if it is all supposition or 100% true. It doesn’t matter if various traits and plot arcs of the Egyptian god Horus (or his predecessors) were used to create the christ-myth. The only important thing is the foundational themes which interweave the whole film.
Theme #1 - The most powerful puppet-masters have amazing prescient abilities.
Theme #2 - To maintain their power, these super-apex men encourage their puppets to war.
Theme #3 - They successfully pass their secret batons from generation-to-generation and have done so for centuries.
The film in three sentences: Fifteen hundred years ago, the most powerful super-apex men were the priests who constructed christianity. They sent their puppets off to kill in the crusades and burned witches for centuries just so they could drink from golden chalices. Today, the most powerful super-apex men are politicians and bankers who work hand-in-hand to manipulate the US into its large wars and then keep them in those wars for as long as possible because the war-machine is profitable.
I don’t think anyone will contest that Zeitgeist was scripted as propaganda in order to appeal to non-religious, non-wealthy, skeptical, disaffected, Americans.
This is where the Bloody Socks Rule comes in (recap: focus on one valid piece of evidence).
I call Zeitgeist’s bloody socks ‘The Unseen Unproof’.
The film suggests hundreds of American political and military people either passively conspired to sacrifice or actively finger-on-the-trigger murdered thousands of our own citizens on 11 September 2001. Even though it could only be possible if we were all Borg, the film implies that unknown and unseen explosive experts were allowed to rig three WTC buildings for demolition all through the night of 10 Sep 2011—because just hitting them with plane-loads of people wouldn’t bring them down and wouldn’t be sufficient to sway public opinion to go to war. And, the missing passenger plane debris at the Pentagon as well as the unseen debris at the crash site in Pennsylvania means the missing planes (AA77 and UA93) didn’t crash. There must have been missiles.The film doesn’t say anything about Area 51, but where else would you hide two planes and 100+ passengers?
One of the things that amazes me about conspiracy nuts...they imbue ‘authority figures’ with more intelligence, capabilities, and cleverness than your average idiot. In my experience everyone is an average idiot. They don’t seem to understand that everyone: Presidents, fighter pilots, WTC architects, ground-zero clean-up crews, policemen, firemen, receptionists, bankers, Osama, suicide-terrorists - all - are all just a bunch of overgrown kindergartners playing at adult games.
Greedy? You bet. Prone to making mistakes? Every day. Capable of keeping a secret? Never.
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