David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens with an intense, aggressive, dynamic, pansexual, twisted credit sequence. It’s a series of appealingly grotesque images; inky silhouette figures mixing and morphing and blending into each other, scored to the wild industrial howl of Karen O and Trent Reznor’s urgent cover version of Led [...]
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Now on DVD: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (US, 2011).
Posted: May 22, 2012 in Books, Motorcycles, Movies (G), Violence, Winter1
My Top 50 Movies Of All Time (At This Exact Point In Time.)
Posted: March 21, 2012 in Skeletons., Werewolves, Pretty Girls, Ninjas, Aliens, Clint, Westerns, Bill Murray, Awesomeness, Michael Mann, Lee Marvin, Movies (A), Movies (C), Movies (E), Movies (F), Movies (G), Movies (H), Movies (I), Movies (K), Movies (M), Movies (N), Movies (O), Movies (P), Movies (Q), Movies (R), Movies (T), Movies (U), Movies (W), Monsters, Sharks, Claudia Cardinale, Apes, Badass Old Guys, Violence, John Belushi, John Landis, Alligators, Pooping, Wolves, John Carpenter, Winter, Robert Forster, Raquel Welch, Pam Grier, Answer TracksI probably should be doing about 50 other things at this very moment, but I saw this great top-50 list today and was inspired it to immediately answer it. I made my list very, very quickly, so in plenty of ways it’s the most honest form a list like this could ever arrive in. While the numbering is fairly [...]
The 2011 Cinematic Black-Guy Death Toll.
Posted: December 27, 2011 in Movies, Opinions, Violence, Zombies“Brothers don’t last long in situations like this.” — Duane Martin as “Joel”, Scream 2, 1997. In 1997, the illness was still beneath the surface enough for the joke to register. Fourteen years later, in 2011, is the joke still funny? We’re in the future. We have a multi-cultural president. Beyoncé and Jay-Z are basically [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #12: THE DESCENT (2005).
Posted: October 13, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Cavemen, Cult Classics, Horror, Monsters, Movies (D), ViolenceAs I watched The Descent for a second time, the one thought to which I kept returning was this: Maybe there are some places humanity just doesn’t need to go. For sure, the movies keep trying to make the case. In the movies, if you go into the ocean, into the woods, into [...]
Cult Classics: PUNISHER: WAR ZONE (2008).
Posted: October 4, 2011 in Action., Awesomeness, Awfulness, Badass Old Guys, Burt Reynolds, Clint, Crime, Cult Classics, Explosions, Fire, Heroes, Lee Marvin, Megaviolence, Michael Mann, Movies (P), Murder, Ninjas, Observations, Opinions, Profanity, Superheroes, ViolencePUNISHER: WAR ZONE & THE SAD STATE OF THE CINEMATIC SHIT-KICKER. So I was one of those strange people who watched Punisher: War Zone during its brief theatrical run. If you’re a fan of left-field action flicks and intentional unintentional humor, I’ll tell you it’s definitely worth that late-night rental. If you like [...]
Movie Review: DRIVE (2011).
Posted: September 28, 2011 in Action., Awesomeness, Badass Old Guys, Cars, Crime, Cult Classics, Film Noir, Horror, Los Angeles, Michael Mann, Movies, Movies (D), Music, Romance, ViolenceI’ve been thinking about something lately, and seeing Drive recently turned out to be a bit of synchronicity since, in its own way, Drive is largely an illustration of the concept: Just because something isn’t true doesn’t mean it isn’t real. And vice versa. Drive isn’t something that happened. It started as a terrific, mean little novel by James Sallis, and was [...]
From The Archives: THE NEW WORLD (2005).
Posted: September 26, 2011 in Boats, History, Movies (N), Romance, Terrence Malick, The Future, Travel, Violence, WarI did not rush out to see this movie on the largest possible screens when it was released nearly six years ago, and more the fool I for that. It’s kind of incredible. In their list of the top fifty films of the past decade, the Onion’s A.V. Club, one of my favorite daily web destinations, rated [...]
Cult Classics: BATTLE ROYALE (2000).
Posted: July 8, 2011 in Action., Cult Classics, Megaviolence, Movies (B), ViolenceQuick note to let you know that a very special screening is happening tonight, Friday July 8th, at 915pm at the Japan Society: Battle Royale will be making an exceedingly rare appearance on an American screen. Despite what you may (or may not) have heard, Battle Royale has never exactly been banned in the United [...]
Answer Tracks & Friday Fights.
Posted: August 13, 2010 in Action., Answer Tracks, Boxing, Kung-Fu, Martial Arts, Movies, ViolenceAn answer track, in musical vernacular, is a response to a previously recorded and released song. The Ten Awesomest Movies About Fighting is a post by my great friend Zach Oat over at Television Without Pity (read his work daily!) to celebrate the release of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. (Read my review!) I thought [...]
