Monthly Archives: January 2011

christian slater

Posted on 1/30/2011 by gio

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Enter the Void

Posted on 1/30/2011 by reynolds

Gaspar Noe’s film is shot almost entirely in p.o.v., the protagonist a young guy doing and dealing drugs in a seedy, emphatically-neon Tokyo. Early voiceovers–where he tells himself things that no sapient creature would ever need to say, or even … Continue reading →

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The Mechanic (2011)

Posted on 1/30/2011 by Chris

This remake of the 1972 film of the same name is entirely predictable, including its choice of a different ending to the Bronson original. This version stars Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop, the long time assassin from whence the movie … Continue reading →

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“Pretty soon, your mother will give birth to two children and a dog.”

Posted on 1/21/2011 by jeff

Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth is one strange, nearly inexplicable film – a polymorphously perverse comedy about paranoia and control set in a suburban, Greek enclave which functions as something of 21st century Skinner box with a swimming pool. What unfolds plays … Continue reading →

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Four Lions

Posted on 1/17/2011 by reynolds

I am constitutionally primed to enjoy a film which yuks it up around subjects that terrify or infuriate, and when I heard about Chris Morris’ slapsticky take on radicalized English Muslims, intent on joining the jihad through suicide bombing… well, … Continue reading →

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