November 2008
Monthly Archive
Monthly Archive
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She’s fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. She steals other people’s souls and on her quest to immortality she tricks Jonathan into supporting her work, breaking him apart from his fiancé Rowena and pulling him into her dark, mysterious world. They settle down in an old manor by the Black Sea where Ligeia’s everlasting presence slowly drives Jonathan to madness…
0 comments Sunday 30 Nov 2008 | Paul | Exploitation, Horror, Thriller
Protagonist Yu comes from a devoutly Christian family. A certain incident results in his priest father forcing him to confess his sins, which he commits daily out of a strong desire for praise. In the process Yu develops a taste for the sin of secretly taking photos of others and becomes the sneak photography king of high school students, but then he falls in love with a girl named Yoko who he meets by chance one day in town. Their relationship leads to unexpected developments involving a mysterious religious cult…
With an extraordinary running time of almost four hours, Sono Sion’s latest film is an unconventional masterwork that throws various aspects of contemporary Japan into its wild potpourri, depcted in the framework of an epic love story. His adeptness in presenting chaos as chaos while also realizing breathless entertainment is worthy of admiration
0 comments Sunday 30 Nov 2008 | Paul | Exploitation
Bud’s a good ole’ boy brought up on Bluegrass and Moonshine. While supplying the surrounding counties with its Marijuana supply, Bud has a hefty growing operation. However, this is not Bud’s only secret. He has a much darker one. One that lies trapped under his cabin in the rural hills of Eastern Kentucky. What will happen when two people stand in the way of everything Bud has worked for? How much blood will have to spill?
0 comments Saturday 29 Nov 2008 | Paul | Horror
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the major world capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
0 comments Friday 28 Nov 2008 | Paul | Science Fiction
An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts.
0 comments Friday 28 Nov 2008 | Paul | Fantasy
Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man’s world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. The two protagonists who have never met, meet at Bus stop in the middle of nowhere. The Bus arrives but doesn’t stop, it was the Bus that was going to Godot, the God which manifested itself through a musical sound on the other side of the mountain. So Freak and Jajà decide to look for him on foot, in this way embarking on a journey that will have them meet the bizzarre characters living on this land. Unfortunately Freak and Jaja at the end of their journey.. will meet up with death before reaching their God.
0 comments Wednesday 26 Nov 2008 | Paul | Comedy, Fantasy
For Año Uña, Jonás Cuarón began taking photographs throughout one year, spontaneous images of people in their everyday lives, with neither posing nor staging. Jonás knew while taking the photographs that he would use them to make a film, but there was no plot because the recorded events followed the characters, themes and stories of the year.
The film’s narrative is completely fictional and can be summarised as an impossible romance between Molly, a 21-year-old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty. Molly travels to Mexico, where she rents a room in Diego’s house. A close relationship immediately develops between the two. Diego, who had previously been consumed by desire for his cousin, Emilia, redirects his obsession after Molly arrives. Molly enjoys Diego’s flirtations, finding the attention and respect missing from her relationships with boyfriends. The relationship continues to grow until Molly returns to New York. Diego decides to run away and win Molly’s heart, whose tenderness for Diego turned into attraction.
By superimposing this fictional story over the real moments depicting Eireann and her experience as a foreigner in Mexico, of Diego entering puberty, birthdays and funerals, hospitals, animal surgeries, his grandfather Salvador falling ill with cancer and his death, Jonás discovered the film’s theme: the passage of time and the impermanence of things.
0 comments Wednesday 26 Nov 2008 | Paul | Drama
It’s the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), an uptight recent college grad, can’t wait to embark on his dream tour of Europe. But when his parents (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) announce they can no longer subsidize his trip, James has little choice but to take a lowly job at a local amusement park. Forget about German beer, world-famous museums and cute French girls-James’ summer will now be populated by belligerent dads, stuffed pandas, and screaming kids high on cotton candy. Lucky for James, what should have been his worst summer ever turns into quite an adventure as he discovers love in the most unlikely place with his captivating co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), and learns to loosen up.
0 comments Tuesday 25 Nov 2008 | Paul | Comedy
The best part of any marriage is consummating it. However after three months of a sexless marriage Dan, in a moment of weakness, finds himself in the throws of casual sex with another woman. Dan decides the only way to morally rectify this is, of course, to get his wife to cheat on him and thus he must set out to find the right man to put the hurt on his old lady.
0 comments Monday 24 Nov 2008 | Paul | Comedy
High school students Itsuki Kamiyama and Yoru Morino share an odd fascination with human cruelty and murder. Kamiyama knew they would share a connection as soon as he noticed a cut mark on her wrist. Together they track a brutal serial killer in an attempt to find the latest two victims—not necessarily to help bring the killer to justice, but simply for their own morbid need to inspect his or her handiwork.
0 comments Sunday 23 Nov 2008 | Paul | Horror