BUY IT FROM AMAZON: CLICK HERE!MSRP: $12.99AUTHOR: Jeff SomersPUBLISHER: OrbitPAGES: 384Author Website (You really should take some time and explore this site. It’s a visual treat and eerie as hell and actually adds to the world Somers created) I don’t usually judge a book by its cover, but the cover to The Electric Church is … Continue reading
Diary of the Dead disappoints… by being too good. How’s that for a weird critique? If Land of the Dead was George Romero’s post-9/11/Iraq War zombie movie, Diary is his flat out 9/11 film. It’s back to the night of the living dead, except it’s taking place today. The world is obviously a very different … Continue reading
Apparently, I get to review all of the screenplays for upcoming films featuring combat veterans with loose screws… Having recently revisited the Rambo franchise, I was surprised by a couple of things. 1) Despite its superior pedigree (and by that, I mean to say that James Cameron toiled on the screenplay, was tossed, changed the Cong … Continue reading
When it was announced that Cate Blanchett would reprise her role as The Virgin Queen in a sequel to 1998’s Elizabeth (the film that vaulted her to international movie star status), there was much rejoicing amongst Anglophiles. Not only were they getting the 329th variation on the life of The Queen That Saved England (sans … Continue reading
In the last four years, the work of Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang has grown more alienated and interior. The trend began with his career-high Last Life In The Universe, which built a love story in spite of language and cultural barriers. The follow-up and companion piece of sorts, Invisible Waves, tore the love story apart … Continue reading
Wrong Turn 2 is available today on DVD. You can buy it through CHUD by clicking here. This review is just for the film, which I saw at a special screening as part of Screamfest LA, not for the DVD features. Joe Lynch hasn’t reinvented horror with Wrong Turn 2. He hasn’t created some new … Continue reading
"Look at these assholes." That’s the funniest line in The Darjeeling Limited, and it also marks the point where the film slowly begins to deflate. At this point in the film the three Whitman brothers who are taking a train trip across India come across another group of brothers taking their own trip, across a … Continue reading
To say that The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is worse than the book on which it is based is faint praise, since I found the book to be a barely readable bore. The movie’s script, by the guy behind Trainspotting, believe it or not, at least has the kindness to include incidents; ie, stuff … Continue reading
Tony Gilroy’s directorial debut, Michael Clayton, blares its brilliance over the opening credits, as Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), the manic depressive ace litigator for Kenner, Bach & Ledeen (a corporate law armada blasting away in defense of a massive agrochemical conglomeration called U/North), rails in high Chayefskian dudgeon against the malevolence of corporate America, and, … Continue reading
The Punisher stunk. You know it. I know it. Lionsgate knew it – they had a really tough time marketing the Artisan film in the wake of the acquisition of the company (it is, after all, a film in which “punishment” is meted out via parking citation – not quite what comic fans or mainstream audiences … Continue reading