I finally got around to watching There Will Be Blood today. Last year I watched the first hour, but wasn't in the right mindset to finish it. Ever since, I've been meaning to finish it, and I'm glad I did. Now that it's over, however, I have no idea what to think of it ( Read more... )

Just finished watching Cell 211, a jaw-dropping thriller from Spain. A prison guard reports for his first day on duty, and while being shown around the place ends up knocked unconscious just in time for a prison riot. Locked inside, he's forced to think at the speed of light to save his skin. You may think you've seen this film before. You ( Read more... )

Since I'm not going to be able to catch "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70mm at the Seattle Cinerama, I thought that Friday night would be a good night to watch it on Netflix on a nice TV in a dark room. So I queued up the movie (which I'd never actually sat down and watched), started watching it and everything was going great. Monkeys found the ( Read more... )

Can't sleep tonight. It's 1:30 AM. Here's what's on my brain ( Read more... )

I came to a realization the other day. Previously on this blog, I've mentioned my love for incredibly dark films such as Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy, or Takeshi Kitano's "Sonatine". I've realized that these are my horror films. I am quickly bored of disturbing, queasy acts of violence (ala Saw). I especially hate that genre of audience- ( Read more... )

Cowboys and Aliens gets off to a bang-up start. Daniel Craig wakes up in the dirt with nothing but the clothes on his back and a mysterious metallic bracelet and no idea of who he is. I was sold right there that this would be a movie worth seeing. And on balance, it probably is. Unfortunately, the first reel is the best one, and it's all ( Read more... )

Yet another great meme I'm stealing from yuushi! I've fallen out of the anime scene over the last several years, but I still love it just as much as ever. So to pay tribute to such a fundamental influence in my life, and to make sure I post a bit more than I do (i.e. at all), let's give it a try ( Read more... )

I have some friends at work who I chat with about movies all the time, and who happen to be big horror movie fans. Since they're always getting on me about "WHAT?!? You haven't seen fill-in-the-blank?", and since I'm in the mood, I decided to crack into my languishing horror movie to-do queue. I'm pretty picky about the horror movies I like, but ( Read more... )

I've been talking a lot about music lately, so it's time to switch it up a bit and steal this movie meme from yuushi.

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Today I had the pleasure of seeing "Vengeance", a recent thriller from Hong Kong that is unlike any film of it's kind I've yet seen. Johnny Hallyday, a legendary rock singer from France, is an unusual yet perfect choice to play an aging man on what may be his last quest. He plays Costello, a man who's daughter's family is murdered in her home in ( Read more... )