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It took me seven years and a countdown to the fifteenth anniversary of Seattle’s WTO protests to watch it, and to my (pleasant) surprise, the entire piece managed to grasp my attention. Given the current environment of protests, this was indeed an opportune time to view the piece. The world was busy losing its minds […]

After looking at Brian De Palma’s works, one can understand the influence that Alfred Hitchcock had on him. Similarly to ‘Power’, Vigalondo’s ‘Open Windows’ goes from Crazy to Crazy to simply bonkers. What does enable the film to be entertaining, however, is the energy and cultural currency within the narrative. It is rather silly in

In my discussion of the movie Kill Command, it was defined as Dog Soldiers with robots. Although I wouldn’t say it is as good as the former, it was for the most part an entertaining watch. The characters, however, seem to miss that little touch that would make Kill Command one of the movies to

The psychological trembling of the survivor sets a tone for disaster for the viewer. Eikjord is a geologist and a scientist who has witnessed horrific distressing tragedies in his line of work. Moreover, in the novel, Eikjord faces the world after refusing any and all contact with his daughter after the immense trauma of losing

The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often anything but perfect. It’s not exactly new cinematic territory, but it’s a well that gets tapped often because it’s just a lot of fun to watch rich families implode, often of their own doing. In

Over the years, King Solomon’s Mines has gone through a lot. It started in 1885 as an adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard. Some people refer to Haggard as the father of the ‘Lost World’ sub-rich and many others consider him a precursor to the type of pulp fiction that ruled the comic and

I will not take the liberty of explaining how these sounds map to reality. What I can explain is that men ranging between the ages of 18 to 50 make these sorts of sounds when watching Powder Blue, the straight-to-DVD film that features Jessica Beil in the nude. That’s right, I said nude, dear boys

“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine times and had supposedly retired the character after 2017’s “Logan,” loved the Deadpool series and was friends with star Ryan Reynolds. He wanted the mutant with the adamantium claws to team up with the Merc with the Mouth, preferably in a buddy movie

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is the kind of film that requires your utmost concentration and attention. Set in the future, the film aroma captures almost everything ethereal and whatever a movie geek could think of. I think I do not want to watch it ever again. I regard Anime as one of the

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been a bit too harsh. When I first watched Sean Wang’s emotionally brutal coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance where it won the festival’s audience award I thought his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated animated short