and it still creeps the fuck out of me

I posted a link to this in the mini-review of this film below, but I think it’s worth posting directly again, because the more I remember about the documentary, the more I think how much I liked it. The trailer features a couple of excerpts of some really shocking news footage they used in the [...]

Book properties, comic book properties… there’s a a fair few that mean a lot to me and I don’t want to see fucked up by being made into shitty films. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is really … really high.. on that list if not at the top. I think Spike Jonze might just be [...]

Kidz in da Hood
Dir: Catti Edfeldt and Ylva Gustavsson
I was wary off the bat with ‘Kidz in da Hood’ (Förortsungar) because of the ‘kool’ spellings in the title, that coupled with the fact that it was a ’street’ movie for children made me start to worry for my sanity before I even sat down in [...]

The LFF kicks off tonight (a gala screening of ‘Eastern promises’) so I thought I should really get my shit together and write up some reviews of what i’ve seen so far…. this is the first post of many.
I’m thinking a good way to rate these rather than ’stars’ is to tell you how long [...]

I pride myself with knowing a lot of useless shit about films, too much useless shit if i’m honest, yet somehow this gem of information had eluded me until now. The Manchester Morgue Blog had this (above) Japanese version of the poster for ‘Army of Darkness’.. renamed in Japan to ‘Captain Supermarket’ (Kyaputien supamaketto: Shiryo [...]

“A secret NATO train filled with US Marines is halted by a bolshy local station master; rambunctious Balkan farce moves inexorably to tragedy as the soldiers and townspeople try to fraternise.”
Sitting down to watch what I thought was going to be a dark satire on the conflict in Kosovo, and American military interference in foreign [...]