The Hook: Ostensibly a remake of Denjin Zaborger (aka Electroid Zaborger 7), really it's just Noboru Iguchi (director of MACHINE GIRL, ROBOGEISHA, and THE ANCIENT DOGOO GIRL, as well as co-director of MUTANT GIRL SQUAD with Yoshihiro Nishimura of TOKYO GORE PLACE fame and Tak Sakaguchi of a ton of awesome things fame) riffing off of tokusatsu in ( Read more... )

The Hook: A group of film students follow a suspected bear poacher, in the hopes of getting a scoop for an unspecified film project. As everyone is I'm sure 100% surprised to hear, they get more than they bargained for: he doesn't hunt bears, HE HUNTS TROLLS ( Read more... )

So the theme for SIFF this year has turned out to be, "surprisingly good movies." Each time I've gone to see a movie--many of them long-anticipated (TUCKER AND DALE VERSUS EVIL, AMER, BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS), many seen just to take advantage of a theatrical showing (LITTLE BIG SOLDIER, K20: THE BEAST WITH TWENTY FACES)--I've found myself walking ( Read more... )

I've gone over the SIFF schedule in a bit more detail; and altho I haven't added a lot more films that I want to see (only one or two), I figured I could just throw out some opinions on why I want to watch films (you have to come up with your own reasons). All links are to the SIFF page for a movie, many of them feature trailers for the film if ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again...

The SIFF schedule was released to day, and I've been meaning to go through it ALL DAY, but have been too busy. So I'm just quick skimming through the online calendar to see what there is to see. I'll put up a more comprehensive list with explanations of why I want to see things later, hopefully ( Read more... )

Bill Plympton's Idiots and Angels: Fantastic. Five stars.

Ernesto Diaz Espinoza & Marko Zaror's Mirageman: Fucking sweet. Five stars.

Takashi Miike's Zebraman: Totally awesome. Four and a half stars.

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I'd make a pretty crappy movie reviewer, wouldn't I?

So I think I've discovered the best part of moving to Seattle: SIFF is way better than the MSP IFF. I'll be editing in some links and commentary later, but I've been carrying these clippings I tore out of the free SIFF paper for a week now and I want to get them up so A: the couple other Seattlites on lj can see them, and B: I don't forget about ( Read more... )