A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
IN THEATERS (WIDE RELEASE):
Drag Me to Hell (2009): Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre, but judging by the trailer I wouldn’t expect anything Evil Dead-esque or too out [...]
“Alfred Eaker’s Fringe Cinema” is a column published on Thursdays covering truly independent cinema: the stuff that’s so far under the public radar it may as well be underground. The folks making these films may be starving artists today, but they may be recognized as geniuses tomorrow. We hope to look like geniuses ourselves by [...]
DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz
FEATURING: Mitchell Cohen
PLOT: A nerdy teen janitor is tormented by his serial killer peers until he accidentally
falls into a vat of toxic waste and emerges as a mop-wielding, avenging mutant superhero.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: When a movie about a mutant janitor who fights transvestite thugs and, to [...]
Every knows what “exploitation” films are: films that deliberately appeal to audiences baser nature, and try to lure in viewers with the promise of sex, nudity, violence, and moral degeneracy.
When a film tries to appeal to an audiences higher nature, to their intellect and aesthetic sense, but at the same time promises plenty of sex, [...]
DIRECTED BY: Greg Araki
FEATURING: James Duval, Rachel True
PLOT: Shallow L.A. teenagers take drugs and have kinky sex all day in preparation for
the party of the year, while a rubber alien reptile occasionally stalks and abducts them.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: As an attempt at a contemporary update of Repo Man by way of Clueless, [...]
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
NEW ON DVD:
Eden Log (2007): Judging by IMDB comments, this French sci-fi/horror/thriller about an amnesiac who wakes up in a cave confuses the hell out of mainstream American genre [...]
Hidden deep in the recesses of early cinema lies a rarely seen, obscure gem that might be described as something resembling a Max Beckman Moving Picture.
Roscoe Arbuckle’s 1916 He Did and He Didn’t is a humorous, expressionistic nightmare which not only calls to mind the texture and atmosphere of Max Beckman expressionist paintings, but also, in it’s [...]
“Quirky” can be defined as “full of quirks.” A “quirk” is “a strange attitude or habit” (synonyms: oddity, queerness, crotchet).
In the late 1980s to early 1990s, about the time of the rise of the Sundance Festival, “serious” (as opposed to exploitation-style) independent films exploded in the United States. “Quirky” comedies quickly became a staple of [...]
In a move that says “if you can’t bring yourself to actually police people uploading copyrighted movies, you might as well encourage copyright holders to upload their own,” YouTube has recently invited movie studios to upload copies of their own movies.
I’m personally against watching full-length movies on YouTube (or any computer service), at least with [...]
“I think it is a film fantastique in a way… a film fantastique can have almost anything in it, it’s based on facts but it can take flights of fancy which are still rooted to the truth, to the reality of the story, so the imagination can roam.”–Robin Hardy
DIRECTED BY: Robin Hardy
FEATURING: Edward Woodward, Christopher [...]
