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  • 21 Sep

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    Why you should be at Sitges ’09

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    sitgesWhile I am still recovering from the Toronto Film Festival experience (45 films, 16 reviews, 4am walks, 3 parties, 2 interviews, no sleep!) I cannot but think that I wish I was planning a trip to the sunny coast of spain for the worlds biggest and most comprehensive genre film festival: Sitges. Now in its 42nd year, the line up is to die for.

    Here are some of the highlights (links to Row Three Reviews):

    Enter The Void (R3 Review) – The Best film Experience of the year! Seriously.

    Grace (R3 Review) – Motherhood, biology and the parasitic infant. “He requires special food!”

    Splice (R3 Review) – sexy and scary genetic experimentation with Sarah Polley and Adrian Brody.

    Pontypool (R3 Review) – Semiotics! Zombies! Talk Radio!

    Black Dynamite (R3 Review) – Blaxploitation Spoof. Badassery. You Dig, MuthaFucka!

    Thirst (R3 Podcast Discussion) – Chan-wook Park does vampires in his own majestic and unpredictable fashion.

    Mr. Nobody (R3 Review) – Donnie Darko meets Primer meets Sliding Doors. Rinse. Repeat.

    [Rec]2 (R3 Review) – Just like [Rec] only more guns. And more crosses. (As [Rec] was to Alien, [Rec]2 is to Aliens.)

    Genius Party Beyond – The best of strange animation from 4oC studios. Animation without boundaries.

    Best Worst Movie – A doc on Troll 2 (a contender for worst film ever made) and its fandom. And Sitges is double billing it with Troll 2 for the complete package.

    The Hole – 3D (R3 Review) – A great kids story of fears in the dark with astoundingly good 3D technology.

    The Loved Ones (R3 Review) – John Hughes meets Carrie with a dollop of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Drag Me to Hell. This Down Under horror film won the TIFF midnight madness award.

    Nymph (R3 Review) – Nature is Satan’s Church.

    Deliver Us From Evil – A stylish revisit of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. With bonus added nail gun.

    Danse Macabre – Drop Dead Gorgeous reverie on the final moments before a body is interred into the ground.

    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of call New Orleans (R3 Review) – Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing. God Bless Herzog goofing on genre cinema and creating amusing, highly quotable, entertainment.

    The Forbidden Door – Indonesian ‘mind-fuck’ of a successful artist discovering how badly things can go when you peer behind the red curtain of your own psyche. Stay until after the credits for more information.

    Valhalla Rising – Vikings! Sergio Leone framing! Terrence Malick tonal poetry! Blood Eagling! Mads Mikklesen!

    Vengeance – Johnnie To in fine form makes an urban western with French superstar Johnny Hallyday.

    Moon (R3 Review) – Sam Rockwell in a stunningly designed hard science fiction film.

    Some that I personally wish to see:

    Stanislaw Lem’s “1″
    Yatterman
    Dogtooth
    O Lucky Malcolm!
    The Countess
    Bronson
    Metropia
    Heartless
    The Bullet Man (Tetsuo 3)
    Paranormal Activity
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    Loft
    Chaw
    White Lightin’
    Cold Souls (R3 Review)

    …And a word of warning (i.e. best to skip out) on these:

    Les derniers jours du monde (Happiness at the End of the World) – Sexual confusion and promiscuity as Apocalypse metaphor could have been done in 10 minutes instead of 130 agonizing minutes! Unless you want to see Sergei Lopez and Mathieu Almalric graphically make out, avoid like the plague!

    George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead – He’s lost it with this one, blunt, directionless and looking more like a bad Romero imitation than anything else.

    The Children (R3 Review) – A handsome and well shot ‘Children Slasher Film’ that seems to please the genre-crowd, but is braindead and blunt without being very scary.

  • 09 Sep

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    The Definitive Ten Greatest Beards in Film of All-Time Ever

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    Digging into my archive of articles from an old movie website that I used to write for, I stumbled across an old article I wrote up about beards in movies. At that time I wrote of my envy for those who can grow cool beards. A beard defines one’s manliness. After all, when was the last time you ever saw a clean-shaved Jesus? That’s right… never. Unforuntately, at that time I wrote that “my facial hair grows in looking like I pasted pubic hair to my face.” Nearly four years after I wrote that, nothing really has changed (but then again, Christian Bale grows a pretty shitty, pubic-looking beard too, so I have that to comfort me). I even tried to grow a ‘stache this summer, just for kicks, and failed miserably (i.e. I looked like a child molester).

    As I must live vicariously through other bearded-folk, I put together a new, definitive list of great beards captured in cinema. There are plenty of great beards out there though, so if you feel someone got the short-handed by not making this list, feel free to comment. Otherwise, enjoy.

    » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 28 Aug

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    Where the Hungry Things Are.

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    "And they were still Hot!"

    Talk amoungst yourselves.

  • 18 Aug

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    Felicia Day Is Hooooooooooooooot

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    I‘m seriously girl crushing on Felicia Day. The sometimes movie, sometimes TV, sometimes Whedon fave, always geeky star made a name for herself with her web series “The Guild”. If you’re still scratching your head and wondering what the heck I’m talking about, be sure to head over to the official website and start watching. You should be caught up in no time.

    One of the panels with a lot of buzz at Comic Con was “The Guild” panel in which Day and fellow Guild members unveiled a music video titled “Do You Want to Date My Avatar”. That little video is now online and well worth a look. It’s a bit geeky and a whole lot of sexy but the words are the major selling point. Not to mention that it’s darn catchy.


  • 08 Aug

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    Patrick Duffy & The Crab Discuss a Threesome

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    Discuss.

  • 24 Jul

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    Movie Title Stills

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    I feel like maybe we’ve mentioned this site before, but even so it bears repeating. Go to this site right now.

    Good times.

  • 30 Jun

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    Bruno on Conan – OMFG

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    Alrrrrrrrrrrright. I don’t watch late night TV and I have no love or hate for Conan O’brien but when a good friend of mine told me I had to see Bruno’s appearance on “The Tonight Show”, I had to check it out. For some, this will be old news but I doubt everyone’s seen this. Or maybe they have and I’m just way behind the times. Either way, it’s pretty darn funny.

    The video is embedded below but only for our American friends. Everyone else, you can check out the video here.

    Bruno opens on July 10th.

    The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Bruno, Part 1


    The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Bruno, Part 2

  • 24 Jun

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    They Shot that Where?

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    Toronto City HallWith digital effects, it’s become harder and harder to discern what’s real and what’s not, particularly when it comes to locations. Anyone can be shot on a green screen and transported to some computer generated perfect location but there’s nothing like location scouting that special place in that favourite movie of yours (trust me, I know). Sometimes the locales are obvious, famous and unmistakable and other times you’re left wondering where on earth they filmed that.

    Hot on the heels of news that Ennis House is up for sale comes a great article from the folks at WebUrbanist titled “12 Real-Life Locations Behind Out-of-this-World Films” and as the title suggests, it’s a list of 12 locations from films which you may have thought were filmed on a soundstage.

    The list features some prominent places including Ennis House (which was used in Blade Runner) along with some less flashy though equally awesome locales such as Aldwych Tube Station (V for Vendetta) and Seaside Florida (The Truman Show). And for the record, Toronto City Hall (pictured above) is a spectacular sight.

    Check out the entire list at WU.

  • 23 Jun

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    John Carpenter’s Alf Looks Awesome!

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    You know we love them. Comic book movies. Movies based on cartoons and toys. It’s what we’re about here! Right? Right!? (Eh. I can already hear the crickets). Some of the filmmakers featured at Atom.com obviously feel the same way because this video called “Toy Movies” is as ridiculous as you could possibly imagine and it’s darn funny. And for the record, I’d pay good money to see David Cronenberg’s Cabbage Patch Kids.

    Hat tip to Cinematical for the video.

  • 16 Jun

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    The Futuristic Movie Timeline

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    Around here, we’re fans of sci-fi. Low-brow, high-brow, in between…we just love movies about alien species, shit blowing up, big action extravaganzas…

    OK. So maybe not the big action stuff (though I’ll happily admit to loving a good mindless sci-fi action movie) but you get the picture. But have you ever considered how many years span between Earth as depicted in The Matrix and say 12 Monkeys? No? Really? This isn’t keeping you up at night?

    Well that’s too bad because someone wants you to know and really, it’s kind of fun to see a graphical mapping of these times and then think back to the movies themselves and the worlds that the filmmakers created.

    The Futuristic Movie Timeline was created by Dan Meth and it graphs a number of sci-fi films on a timeline. I was a little surprised to see Dune way out in the future; for some reason I had it in my mind that it was some sort of alternate reality.

    Futuristic Movie Timeline

    Thanks to Production Weekly for the linkage!

  • 12 Jun

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    100 Best Movie Lines (?) in 200 Seconds

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    Call me nostalgic, but I love all the little film clip videos people put together – whether it’s the self-congratulatory ones shown at the Oscar ceremonies or the random ones that appear on the internet with increasing frequency. Just being reminded of so many films I love (and sometimes being encouraged to check out ones I haven’t seen) gives me a warm fuzzy.

    This video from Liquid Generation purports to contain the 100 Best Movie lines, from all genres, in 200 seconds. It’s more than debatable that these are the best 100 movie lines of all time, but they hit enough high spots to keep me entertained. It’s also interesting to note films that I would’ve included, but with a different line – “what knockers” wouldn’t have been my first choice from Young Frankenstein, and #94 is Die Hard, I think – but why not “Yippee-ki-yi-yay, motherfucker”?

    What do you think of their choices? What would you have picked instead? And do you find the background music exciting or annoying?

  • 03 Jun

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    Timesuck Alert: Empire Online’s Cryptic Canvas

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    The Cryptic Canvas | 50 Movies Hidden In A Painting | Empire | www.empireonline.com

    Have some extra time? I ended up spending a good bit of my “free” time throughout the day poring over Empire Online’s Cryptic Canvas. They commissioned a painting with fifty film titles illustrated all over it. Note that the illustrations don’t have anything to do with the content of the film itself – they generally depict the title itself in some way.

    I’ve figured out 35 of the 50, but I’ve been stuck on the other 15 for a few hours now. Anyone want to show me up for the poseur I am? :)

    (Further note: If you are using Firefox and have Adblock Plus enabled, you’ll probably have to disable it on the page. Took me five minutes to figure out why nothing was showing up!)

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