Killer thrills in the late 80s, chaos in Kyrat, and coming of age on 42nd Street - just some of what's been setting the tone of my January 2017...
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Sunday, 29 January 2017
Sunday, 22 January 2017
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama (David DeCoteau, 1988) Blu-Ray Review
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“Demons murdering your friends? I gotta tell you both,
kids – drugs are not the answer.” Hailing from the heyday of the video
rental store, when movies like this were hidden away at the back near the
infamous beaded curtain and teen boys had few options for titillation if they
couldn't find a discarded smut mag on the railway tracks, David (Creepozoids)
DeCoteau's goofball cult favourite makes quite an impression. Not only did they
make a movie in such a short time (ten days to write, two weeks to shoot),
but Sorority Babes in the Slimeball
Bowl-o-Rama is still being talked about thirty years on...
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Sunday, 15 January 2017
Triple Bill Mini Musings: Animal Instincts, Bunker Troubles, and Organic Gore...
Zootropolis:
What's it about?
The animal kingdom has evolved beyond its base instincts and created a world where predator and prey of all sizes can live side-by-side. However, when fourteen mammals go missing under suspicious circumstances, it's up to the first rabbit in the Zootropolis Police Department and a sly fox to figure out what's going on.
Who would I recognise in it?
Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Idris Elba, Nate Torrence, Tommy Chong, J.K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Shakira, and others (voices).
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
With a strong and clear message at its heart, Zootropolis (otherwise known as Zootopia) still manages to avoid coming off as preachy, because the message is intrinsically lodged into the well-constructed story...
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What's it about?
The animal kingdom has evolved beyond its base instincts and created a world where predator and prey of all sizes can live side-by-side. However, when fourteen mammals go missing under suspicious circumstances, it's up to the first rabbit in the Zootropolis Police Department and a sly fox to figure out what's going on.
Who would I recognise in it?
Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Idris Elba, Nate Torrence, Tommy Chong, J.K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Shakira, and others (voices).
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
With a strong and clear message at its heart, Zootropolis (otherwise known as Zootopia) still manages to avoid coming off as preachy, because the message is intrinsically lodged into the well-constructed story...
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Sunday, 8 January 2017
Four Flies On Grey Velvet (Dario Argento, 1971) DVD Review
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“Seeing all these worms make a living out of death,
kind of knocks the fear out of you, right?” Dario Argento's third
giallo film and, at the time, intended to be his last, Four Flies On Grey
Velvet is a curious mix of murder mystery and offbeat comedy in which a
drummer in a prog rock band finds himself framed for murder – but his
blackmailer has no intention of calling the cops on him, so what is it they're
after?
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