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): The Future (2011): Narrated by an injured cat awaiting adoption, there are strong elements of magical realism (e.g. a talking moon) in this … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 7/29/2011
Before plugging next week’s reviews, I’d like to remind everyone that there are only 3 days remaining to vote in the 366 Weird Movies 2nd Reader’s Choice Poll. Currently Trash Humpers has a four vote lead in group A, with Adaptation, Rubber and Dead Leaves in striking distance; Pink Floyd: The Wall has opened a … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
Future reviews like these will be read by you in the future: in honor of its recent (unfortunately bare-bones) Blu-ray release, we’ll cover the cult anime Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001); we’ll try to figure out why Shinya Tsukamoto essentially remakes his experimental (and certified weird) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) as Tetsuo: The Bullet … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
Next week, we’ll be hitting that reader-suggested review queue with reviews of Jan Svankmajer‘s horrific Lunacy (2005) and the bizarre ultraviolent anime Dead Leaves (2004). We’ll also have coverage of Charlie Chaplin‘s The Great Dictator (1940) (recently re-released by the Criterion Collection). Now, we could put in more reviews this week, but instead we’re going … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
Monday is Independence Day here in the US, and what better way to celebrate our dissolution from the British Empire than with a review of the controversial, weird, and never-seen-in-the-US black comedy UK television series “Jam”? Further on in the week we’ll take a look at Terrence Malick’s remarkable Tree of Life (now in theaters), … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE