Review: The Animatrix
OnWhen I watched The Animatrix, it was because my dad rented it; of course, this statement shouldn’t be taken as meaning that I didn’t want to see it – after all, I was planning on seeing it at SIFF, but it was…
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Review: Final Flesh
OnSong-poems are super interesting. They might not always be good (though there are some definite diamonds in the rough there), but it’s such an interesting concept, even if it IS mostly just a way to separate suckers from their money. I’ve wondered…
Review: District 9
OnWhat’s better than a great movie? Three great movies. However, three movies usually take longer than one to watch — but as director Neill Blomkamp shows us, this is simply a guideline rather than a rule. With District 9, Blomkamp (with assistance…
Review: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
OnImage via Wikipedia Before I get started, this review contains a lot of spoilers for He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. Do not continue past the cut if you care about such things. I originally had these all in ROT13, but that does…
Review: The Wild Blue Yonder
OnImage via Wikipedia The Wild Blue Yonder is about, well, ultimately, Herzog‘s idea that mankind will never find anything interesting in space. Ever. We can’t get far enough, and who knows if there’s anything actually out there anyway.
Review: A Town Called Panic
OnStop-motion animation gets a bit ignored, it seems. Aside from, say, reruns of Rankin-Bass Christmas specials and Gumby, it’s only Adult Swim keeping it alive in the US with stuff like Robot Chicken and Moral Orel. But, yet again, the Belgians come to…
Review: The Billy Nayer Show: The Early Years
OnImage via Wikipedia This was the first DVD from Cory McAbee, director of The American Astronaut and Stingray Sam and leader of the Billy Nayer Show. It’s got his three short films, Billy Nayer, The Ketchup And Mustard Man, and The Man On The Moon. It’s also got…
Review: Derailroaded
OnImage via Wikipedia I’ve been waiting 6 years for Derailroaded to come out on DVD, and I’m very happy to report that it finally has. The only way it could be better is if it came out with the Frank Zappa-produced An…
Review: God’s Angry Man
OnImage via Wikipedia I’d been wanting to watch God’s Angry Man for a while, now; after all, it’s a documentary on a televangelist [SFW, despite being rotten.com] made by Werner Herzog. So, you know, it’d stand to reason that I’d be all…
2010 Oscar Predictions: No Opinions, Just The Facts
OnImage via Wikipedia When I was a kid, my mom used to tell me that the reason people listened to what Siskel and Ebert had to say about movies, that the reason their opinions were relevant, was because, whatever their taste in…