In The year before I started grad school, Doc forced me to watch the first season of the new Doctor Who. It got me interested enough that I decided for reasons that are no longer quite clear that I should watch the entire series. Or, at least, as much of the series as was available to be seen on DVD ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I haven't done this in a while: click on the lick to be my Netflix friend (awwww, we're Netflix friends...)

http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PArwzm0tn4craxLeRUtm

If I were a spaceship captain, and someone ever told me "I'm sorry but that information is on a need to know basis, and you don't NEED TO KNOW" I would just punch them right in the fucking face.

OH MY GOD THAT WAS DEPRESSING

DEPRESSINGLY AWESOME

?

At times.

Above is a promotional video for the Norwegian DVD release of Dead Snow.

Dead Snow, for those of you not in the know, is a Norwegian zombie movie. In which the zombies are also Nazis. Fuck yeah. I had the delightful pleasure of seeing it at SIFF last week and give it the highest possible recommendation to anyone interested in the phrase " ( Read more... )

* Directed by Ryohei Kitamura (US film debut), based on a short story by Clive Barker ( Read more... )

Magnolia just announced they've acquired the acquisition rights to the Red Cliff movies and Warlords. This pleases me immensely, as they've done right by their imports pretty well as far as I can recall. Red Cliff was released as a pair of films, and John Woo's made no attempt to hide the intent to edit them down into a single film for US ( Read more... )

One Night in Mongkok
Directed by Derek Yee, 2004

Don't get me wrong, One Night in Mongkok is a good film. A great one, even. I can almost even see why I've seen it called a classic. It's delightfully atmospheric, unrepentantly nihilistic, shot incredibly well and is willing to define its own pace. With all that said ( Read more... )

When I get laid, I gotta keep banging all night long

Tonight I watched Lost and Found, almost entirely due to its placement on Kozo of LoveHKFilm's list of his top picks and a bit due to the fact that it's one of the few that A: I hadn't seen, and B: were available on Netflix ( Read more... )