A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
It’s a very weak week for weirdness. Nothing very unusual debuting in theaters, and the video pickings are slim, so we dug a bit deeper for some strange viewing suggestions.
IN DEVELOPMENT:
Abelcain (2011): We caught this title listed as “in development” [...]
AKA Holy Blood (literal translation)
“My mother is dead. I had a terrible relationship with her. She had many problems with my father, and she never caressed me. So I didn’t have a mother who touched me.”–Alejandro Jodorowsky in La Constellation Jodorowsky
DIRECTED BY: Alejandro Jodorowsky
FEATURING: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Adan Jodorowsky, Sabrina Dennison, Guy Stockwell
PLOT: Fenix, [...]
Next week look for reviews of the curious based-in-fact 2009 mystery Winter of Frozen Dreams, Alejandro Jodoworsky’s psychedelic slasher film Santa Sangre, and Robert Altman’s cult comedy Brewster McCloud, about a boy who dreams of building a pair of wings and taking a flight inside the Houston Astrodome.
As far as weird search terms used to [...]
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):
Alice in Wonderland: Tim Burton reimagines Lewis Carrol’s classic, in sequel form. Is it personal this time? Burton and Carrol seemed the perfect marriage, and we [...]
“And the king, Nebuchadnezzar, answered and said to the Chaldeans, I recall not my dream; if ye will not make known to me my dream, and its interpretation, ye shall be cut in pieces, and of your tents shall be made a dunghill.”–Daniel 2:5, the passage Barton reads when he opens his Gideon’s Bible (Note that [...]
DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
FEATURING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
PLOT: A U.S. Marshall with a tragic past investigates a mysterious disappearance at an
asylum for the criminally insane on a craggy, isolated Massachusetts island in the 1950s.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Scorsese sprinkles a few flakes of weirdness into his mainstream thriller for [...]
DIRECTED BY: Jean-Claude Brisseau
FEATURING: Carole Brana, Etienne Chicot
PLOT: Sandrine, bored with sex and life in general, takes a year off from the rat race
and meets some libertines who explore the intersection of sex, hypnosis and religious ecstasy.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: This retro sex-drama only flirts with weirdness at the very end. Considered as [...]
Next week, we plan to get out reviews of the mystical French sex film À l’aventure (2009), the currently-in-theaters Shutter Island, and the Coen brothers’ writer’s block nightmare Barton Fink (1991). Also in the pipeline is a review of the 1990 post-apocalyptic film Hardware.
When selecting the weirdest search term used to locate the site last [...]
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 (LIMITED RELEASE):
A Prophet [Un prohète] (2009): A huge stretch for weird interest, but since there’s nothing else in theaters you may want to go see this, the [...]
Well, our first review writing contest went fabulously: we landed Pamela de Graff, who’s turned into a valuable contributor for the site. So, we feel it’s time to trot out a second review-writing contest.
Now, multiple people have contacted us with offers to write reviews, but haven’t followed through. If you’re one of them, [...]
