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January 5th 2009 @ 19:49

Posted By: Iain Sclater - Category: World Cinema

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Thank You James Joseph Cialella Jr.!

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Shut up! I'm trying to watch Benjamin Button!

Thank you James. Can I call you James? You handsome man... Because of your action, you have inspired me to arm myself at the movies as well...

Jesus. Just last week I was watching "Twilight" (which I actually enjoyed) and these fucking teenagers just wouldn't shut the fuck up. They talked through the entire movie. "Oh my god, he is so HOT in this scene!" Blah! Blah! Blah! They talked and talked and talked...

You sir, James the warrior... You took a stand. Yes. You took a stand and shot the man talking, and almost shot his son too...

Read about James the Warrior Knight of the Multiplex

So next time I go to the movies, maybe to see "Star Trek" or "Transformers 2" and I happen to go to a multiplex, full of wonderful tweens and teens (the generation of great dancers), I will bring a Tec-9, Glock, or fuck it, sawed-off 12 Gauge... And when those motor mouths start yapping about the most vapid shit imaginable... I will stand up, and blow the motherfuckers away, I'll blow the motherfuckers heads clear off, I'll eat the brains straight from the skull cavity, and I will laugh...

Thank you James, you are my hero... Have fun in prison psycho...

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December 30th 2008 @ 23:16

Posted By: Iain Sclater - Category: World Cinema

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Origins of Santa Claus

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Santa Rocks!

If you have ever wondered, where does the myth of Santa come from, or have speculated, and come to your own conclusions, the link below could help...

Origins of Santa Claus

Happy Holidays!

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December 20th 2008 @ 17:18

Posted By: Iain Sclater - Category: World Cinema

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You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) - Dennis Dugan

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You Don't...Zohan Poster (2008)

Got a great story behind this flick... I used to work at Warner Brothers in development -- read scripts and shit on them basically... So, when I was working this film was shooting, on the lot, taking my parking... Instead of parking in front of my building, I had to park in the garage and walk through the Sarah Chronicles set every morning

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December 9th 2008 @ 17:53

Posted By: Iain Sclater - Category: World Cinema

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Point Blank (1967) - John Boorman

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Okay -- got a story first before I go into this, I used to work at an incredible video store, watched a lot of movies, especially old Hollywood. There was this GUY who owned the place, he would constantly hype this film, "Ohh you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor

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December 8th 2008 @ 18:21

Posted By: Iain Sclater - Category: World Cinema

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Josee, The Tiger and The Fish

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Josee, The Tiger and The Fish is not a spin-off of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but is the story of the relationship that develops between a handicapped paraplegic young woman named Josee (played by the ever-so cute Chizuru Ikewaki – Strawberry Shortcakes) and a university student named Tsuneo (Satoshi Tsumabuki – Dororo). Tsuneo is a run of the mill university student as he enjoys to drink, party and sleep around when he is not studying or working at his part time job at a mah-jong parlour. One day at work he hears some customers talking about the strange old lady who is seen pushing a pram around town, when supposedly her child died ten years prior. This leads to various speculations as to what is being concealed in the pram, and guesses range from a mummified version of her dead child to drugs. It is Tusneo who is the first to find out, as when asked to take out his bosses’ dog for a walk he steadies the pram of which the old woman loses grip of. He peaks inside only to have a young woman thrust at him with a knife. This is Josee and apparently she has the knife to defend herself against any curious onlookers who decide to “attack” her. This meeting is the first step in a very touching relationship as after being invited back to Josee and her grandmother’s run down house, Josee makes him some food which Tsuneo finds delicious, although Josee at this point is very curt and disdainful towards the student, possibly because of her isolated existence, kept company only by a withering grandma and the hundreds of books that she collects for Josee to read from their neighbours’ rubbish bins.

A withdrawn Josee

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August 8th 2008 @ 19:59

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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Through a Glass Darkly – “Conquering Certainty” (LINK)

“I sat in the wreck, holding Karin, when reality cracked… reality…cracked, and I fell out. It’s like in dreams, anything can happen. Anything!”

The Faith Trilogy

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July 29th 2008 @ 05:58

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Sweden

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Shikoku (LINK)

On the island of Shikoku a mother wants to revive her deceased daughter, so she can inherit her place as the next high priestess. As a result, dark powers are being awakened that have been sealed for many years to keep the dead from inhabiting it.

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The story begins with three childhood friends who live on the island called Hinako, Fumiya and Sayori. One day Hinako spies through a crack in the door, something happening to Sayori. It is a Shinto ceremony of some sort, alluding to the opening scenes of a girl being what looks to be exorcised. Sayori makes Hinako promise not to tell anyone what she has seen, not even Fumiya, threatening to end their friendship if she does. This won’t matter much anyway as Hinako is soon to move away from the island, leaving her friends and the memory of this event in the past

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July 22nd 2008 @ 22:05

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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The Machine Girl: Tokyo Shock Shocks Again (LINK)

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The Machine Girl is one helluva film and when pitted against other similar gory Tokyo Shock releases such as Versus or Ichi the Killer it definitely comes out the squelchiest. In fact I’m willing to bet pounds for pennies that they actually soaked the film stock in blood before shooting. Blood spurts, sprinkles, pours, explodes, sprays, sprays and sprays even more from gashed arteries and severances, the bodies of which are turned into super-soakers (yeah a decapitated body is actually used as a water pistol) The amount of blood isn’t really what makes this film special though, it is the ingenious murder methods, the outrageous use of weapons, the choreography and the feeling that this is what a j-drama would be like if it was made by insanely sadistic ninja-demons who when they’re not going on killing sprees, like writing scripts about going on killing sprees. Wait, there’s also the dynamic characters such as the lead school-girl she-devil Ami Hyuga (Minase Yashiro) who is hungry for the revenge of her dead brother; Miki (played by a 22 year old pornstar named Asami) a really tough but beautiful mom who wants revenge for her dead son; and a marriage made in Yakuza lunacy with the two main villains of the piece, Ryuji and Violet Kimura being so merciless but ridiculous that it’s hard to despise them for being so nasty because they are so compellingly unhinged for parents.

Miki and Ami are ready for battle

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July 18th 2008 @ 11:01

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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Tokyo Decadence: Erotic Sex or Dangerous Fantasy (LINK)

Tokyo Decadence

The subculture of BDSM is vast in its categorisation being that the acronym stands for bondage, discipline, domination, submission, sadism, masochism, master, slave all of which explode in Ryu Murakami’s dark, sometimes comic sometimes sweet but always vulgar film Tokyo Decadence. The outline of the film is that of a subservient 22 year old woman named Ai who works as a mistress, servicing all kinds of clientele from controlling mafia or corporate bosses to hedonistic rich but extremely nutty/flamboyant layabouts to pathetic salarymen who crave humiliation

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July 12th 2008 @ 20:21

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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Memories of Matsuko - New York Asian Film Festival favourite (LINK)

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Memories of Matsuko is a film by Tetsuya Nakashima about a woman named Matsuko Kawajiri (obviously…well I guess it could have been a man…anyway) and the key stages of her life from when she was a child to her death. The story is "told" from different perspectives including her brother Norio, an old friend/fellow convict/pornstar Megumi Sawamura (played by Asuka Kurosawa who you may have seen in A Snake of June) and Yoichi Ryu an old pupil of hers from her school-teaching days. The purpose of this journey into Matsuko’s past is to teach her nephew Shou Kawajiri (son of Norio) a thing or two about life and to help him not make the same mistakes as she did. You see, at present Shou is a nineteen/twenty year old waster whose full time occupation, besides trying to be a guitarist in a rock band, is drinking alcohol and watching porn.

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July 7th 2008 @ 02:36

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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Gojira!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (LINK)

Gojira – 1954

Thundering beats of Gojira’s footsteps inaugurate Ishiro Honda’s film that most of us have heard much about but yet are still moved with feelings of uneasiness. Then comes the roar of a monster that has been trivialized by numerous incarnations, but nonetheless strikes fear in the hearts and minds of those who choose to see Gojira in his ultimate glory

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June 9th 2008 @ 14:07

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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Sakuran: the popping of cherry blossoms (LINK)

Sakuran is a Japanese Edo-period drama film released in 2006 starring model-J-Rock artist-actress and all around badass Anna Tsuchiya. The film is based on a manga series by Moyoco Anno and was adapted to the screen by photographer turned director Mika Ninagawa. Given that this is Ninagawa’s directorial debut it is remarkable that she has managed to visualise another period of time and assemble it with such clarity, accuracy and creativity as she has done. Apparently in interviews she has commented on the fact that she went through a vast amount of Ukiyoe (woodblock) prints to get to grips with the visual style of Yoshiwara (a famous district for prostitution) and based a lot of her modern, colourfully illustrated designs and patterns on the classical art of Edo.

Sakuran utilises lush and juicy colours to express the elegance of the Tamagikuya (brothel) establishment as well as the courtesans it houses, who dressed in outfits of fluorescent oranges, reds, yellows, purples and blues; with thickly painted faces, appear doll-like more than anything else. Murials of dragons and flowers; and stained glass windows of the same hues enshroud these women who are knelt, smoking their pipes and gossiping, awaiting the attention of some Samurai or Taros. There is one woman who seems to gain more attention than any of the others, standing out because of the nonchalant way she drags on her pipe, her inviting eyes and indifferent smirk as she whispers “come in, come in” to a prospective lay. This is Kiyoha, the first of several names she is given denoting her position on the hierarchical ladder, played by Anna Tsuchiya. Though prior to this she has only had two other starring roles in Kamikaze Girls and Bashment, she has never looked as gorgeous or had as much sex appeal as she does in Sakuran, making a move from the cool but cutesy Ichigo to the voluptuous and composed (well most of the time) Kiyoha

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May 28th 2008 @ 14:16

Posted By: Nathan 1 - Category: Japan

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Welcome to the Quiet Room: Where to go, what to do.

Immediately Suzuki Matsuo, director, screenplay writer and original novel writer of ‘Welcome to the Quiet Room’ of which this film is based, lets the viewers know that a film that is titled after a method of submission used in psychiatric wards is not going to be as melancholy as you’d expect. Enter room; man sitting in chair being interviewed by two female reporters from a television magazine studio. He begins by blowing up a balloon and then popping it in an attempt to make an artistic statement. He certainly is an unusual character not least for the fact that he has a safety pin pierced through his right ear where you’d be expecting to see an earring. What does he have to do with the events that are about to transpire? Absolutely nothing. After this initial scene the film swiftly establishes that one of these reporters is to be our anti-heroine as she splits off from her colleagues to go to her next interview; or at least that’s where we think she is going. In actuality none of this has happened.

Asuka Sakura (Yuki Uchida) has in fact been taken to a psych ward after having overdosed two days ago on the suicide cocktail of choice; alcohol and sedatives, and is only pulled out of this dream world after receiving a text message from her roommate/boyfriend. I say roommate/boyfriend because the relationship she has with Tetsuo Yakihata (Kankuro Kudo) is one that is never firmly established in its nature. This isn’t surprising given the carefree and irresponsible traits that they both possess. Anyway, after being pulled out of the meeting she thinks she’s in, and back to reality, Asuka finds herself being pushed along on an emergency hospital bed of which she is strapped to and breathing through an oxygen mask. Various close-ups and acute angles show the bewildered look on her face as she takes in the cold, white walls that surround her and the blinding light that is shining down from the ceiling

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