Monthly Archives: December 2008

The Go-Getter

Posted on 12/4/2008 by reynolds

Go get it. Pretty damn good–great for an hour, then it kind of veers too much into the quirky conventional road-movie romance fantasy it so adroitly avoids and disrupts before that, but… I was sold by then. It’s anchored by … Continue reading →

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Sukiyaki Western Django

Posted on 12/4/2008 by reynolds

We (or maybe mostly I) have talked about Takashi Miike before (here, among other places), and let it be said: even at his goriest, and by god he can be gory, he’s among the most astonishing–and astonishingly sloppy–stylists working. His … Continue reading →

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Marsupial angst

Posted on 12/2/2008 by reynolds

Easily the best film I’ve ever seen about a marsupial, Executive Koala is a film noir about a driven Japanese junior exec (in a pickle factory), whose wife disappeared three years ago and whose recent lover has turned up dead … Continue reading →

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