“Food of the gods” – (88 minutes, USA, 1976 – PG) The ’70s… Roller skating, creepy-crawlers, bean bag chairs, disco balls, and of course, Earth Day… “Food of the gods” is pure 1970′s grade fun which wonderfully makes no sense … Continue reading
“Red Dog” – (92 minutes, Australia, 2011 – PG) I really want to like movies featuring animal protagonist(s), and I’ll often check out movie listings for older, newer as well as foreign films hoping to find a good one. But … Continue reading
“Karate-Robo Zaborgar” – (114 mns, Japan, 2011 – NR) As the saying goes, ‘first I was like OMG, then I LOL’d’… On this side of the ring, the good guys: Daimon and his motorcycle , the titular Zaborgar thingamajig. The … Continue reading
“Beyond the black rainbow” – (110 minutes, Canada, 2010 -NR) How this film came to be is very easy to imagine, as described by the writer/director: a typical awkward teenager browsing video stores in the ’80s, staring at video jackets … Continue reading
The evil of Farther Christmas has been unleashed upon the world once more. Can a small group of reindeer herders catch him in time to sell it to the Americans? “Rare exports: a Christmas tale” – (2010, Finland, 84 minutes … Continue reading
“The sound of noise” – (102 minutes, Sweden/France, 2010 – rated R) Drummers Magnus (Magnus Borjeson) and his pal Sanna (Sanna Persson) are speeding along Swedish freeways in a van, when Sanna’s rythmic (erratic?) driving prompts a motorcycle cop to … Continue reading
“The fall” – (117 minutes, India/USA, 2006 – rated R) In a Los Angeles hospital of the 1920s, a 5 year old Romanian girl named Alexandria (Cantinca Untaru) is recovering from a broken arm she suffered picking up oranges with … Continue reading
“The girl with the dragon tattoo” – (158 minutes, USA, 2011 – rated R) I wanted to like this. Great cast, great director, great story… But like Steven Spielberg, David Fincher hits it about as much as he misses, and … Continue reading
Corny jokes are all that I’m left with, along with growing paranoia. Just over a week ago, I was trawling (geddit?) through our Netflix queue looking for something to watch, promptly found “Trollhunter” sitting two thirds of the way down, … Continue reading
“The adventures of Tintin” (107 minutes, USA, 2011 – rated PG) Perhaps the most difficult thing in adapting material like Hergé’s comic books has to do with tone and pitch. To say the themes and characters are dated or fixed … Continue reading