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From Elsewhere… 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Films 2008-03-29 09:50:53 10. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Released: 1968 | Set in the year: 2001
Clarke’s biggest contribution to science—the concept of placing satellites in geosynchronous orbit—makes the briefest of cameos in 2001. Despite its place in cinematic history, this movie is a particularly easy target. Once our own timeline slipped past the year 2001, it became obvious that, [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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From Elsewhere… Top 10 Bond Villains 2008-04-04 14:54:25 Auric Goldfinger
Goldfinger
Gerte Frobbe was overweight, balding and didn’t even speak English. Yet he remains the single most quoted Bond baddie (you know what I’m talking about.) But he did give us a valuable lesson in the dangers of cabin depressurization.
Talks the Talk: “No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!”
Read the rest of the best [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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From Elsewhere… 27 Greatest Kill Scenes 2008-04-03 17:23:57 #9 - Sin City: Jackie Boy gets a headache
Miho slices up Jackie Boys entire gang after chopping off his hand with a ninja star. Then, after blocking the barrel in his gun, he goes to shoot Dwight but instead gets a backfire straight into his skull. Miho then finishes him off with a slash across [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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Spun, 2002 2008-04-02 12:15:50 Director Jonas Åkerlund’s 2002 Spun has the pace and editing style of the drug which is the central theme of the movie: methamphetamine. For example, while most movies have something like 600 cuts in them, Spun contains a record of more than 5,000 cuts. It stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, a naive meth addict [...]
From Elsewhere… 12 Most Painful Film Castrations Ever 2008-04-02 08:47:10 #2: Hostel: Part II
Castration Performed By: Garden Pruners Eli Roth gave new meaning to critics’ “gornography” nickname for his ultra-gory Hostel series in the second to final scene of his sequel. In this completely unexpected moment, the soon-to-be tortured Beth gains the upper hand when she unflinchingly severs the penis of her torturer with a [...] Read more:Elsewhere
Top 10 Crime Movies Based on True Stories 2008-04-06 13:07:52 The best of the best, here are presented the ten best movies about crime which are based on true stories. They are listed in alphabetical order and each is generally a quite good movie, but what makes them especially interesting, and in some cases, very, very terrifying, is that this is not complete fiction; in [...] Read more:Stories
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Pu-239 (The Half Life of Timofey Berezin) 2008-04-05 11:25:50 HBO and writer/director Scott Z. Burns bring us this sensational, utterly believable and simultaneously terrifying story of a man named Timofey Berezin (Paddy Considine) working in one of the Soviet Union’s many secretive nuclear plants who is exposed to a fatal amount of radiation and must find a way to get enough money for [...]
Chaos, 2005 2008-04-08 11:50:53 Chaos is such a waste of cast, script, film, and money. The writer and director Tony Giglio has little previous directorial experience and his IMDb resume provides associations with mostly B-movies in general for his career.
In this horrible movie we are presented with a bank robbery in Seattle led by Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) and a [...] Read more:Chaos
New theme 2008-04-07 14:32:30 FauxNixon is now using the WPCandy theme, though it’s currently giving me some trouble: the logo won’t adjust properly into the header and the footer isn’t cooperating on the Index page at all, and only partially on the other pages.
I’m working on in it, but this is still the same site with the same content. [...]
From Elsewhere… 10 Horror Remakes That Should Be Made 2008-04-09 14:10:31 10. Lady in White (1988)
Falling neatly into the nobody-saw-it category of remakes is Frank LaLoggia’s Lady in White, an unusual little ghost story that originally starred Lukas Haas and Len Cariou. The movie barely made a dent in the slasher-crazy world of ’80s horror movies, but it’s the kind of alternative to what the genre [...] Read more:Elsewhere
Casino, 1995 2008-04-10 12:30:23 Martin Scorsese’s fantastic follow-up to 1990’s Goodfellas, again teaming up with Nicholas Pileggi, who is also again both the author of the book and the writer of the screenplay. Many of the faces of Goodfellas return here to Casino
to tell the true story of how the mafia took Las Vegas from a small-scale military [...]
Strange Days, 1995 2008-04-12 16:15:47 With its story and its screenplay written by none-other-than James Cameron, Strange
Days is director Kathryn Bigelow (K19: The Widowmaker) vision of a beautiful dystopian Los Angeles on the precipice of the turn of the millennium where violence is everywhere, the police are out in force like something in Bosnia or Northern Ireland with full-on [...]
From Elsewhere… Obsessive Video Montages 2008-04-11 15:15:33 Here are some examples I could find, but I’m sure there must be more. Post ‘em in the comments and I’ll add them. Bonus points for supercuts with the most clips, the shortest clips, and in additional genres (sports? politics?).
Film
Glengarry Glen Ross - Obscenity Count
Requiem for a Dream, montage of every drug montage (meta!)
The Big [...] Read more:Elsewhere
Conspiracy, 2001 2008-04-14 18:15:03 Conspiracy is so accurate and realistic, forcing the viewer to see by proxy a real meeting held by Nazi Germany’s administrators to plan The Holocaust that it actually leaves the viewer quite literally on the verge of nausea. It is a horribly sad, but true tale, based upon the one surviving copy of the meeting’s [...] Read more:Conspiracy
From Elsewhere… The Art of the Title Sequence 2008-04-14 15:47:07 The Art of the TitleSequence
Incredible website dedicated to cataloging and evaluation the title sequences used in films. Absolutely astonishing in its precision and in bringing to light an element of the cinematic medium not often noticed by, or paid attention to, by viewers or critics.
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From Elsewhere… Top 10 Greatest Movie Rants 2008-04-17 18:21:18 #08 - Will Hunting, GOOD WILL HUNTING [1997]
“Why shouldn’t I work for the NSA? That’s a tough one, but I’ll give it a shot. Say I’m working at NSA. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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From Elsewhere… Top 10 Banned Films of the 20th Century 2008-04-17 15:20:05 #03 - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST [1988]
“I am here to set fire to the world!” Martin Scorsese directed this adaption of Nikos Kazantzakis’ controversial 1953 novel that is notable for the scandal it caused as well as for its bizarre casting that included Willem Dafoe as Jesus, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, Harvey Keitel [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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Magnolia, 1999 2008-04-16 18:14:12 Paul Thomas Anderson was allowed to make Magnolia
only after the commercial success of his previous film: Boogie Nights. Anderson was given free reign, or as close to it as a Hollywood studio would ever get, to complete his project which is deeply spiritual and explores the lives of people in nine different, but connected, [...]
The Limey, 1999 2008-04-18 18:42:31 The Limey is a 1999 Steven Soderbergh-directed, Lem Dobbs-written crime thriller in the neo-noir style, but with drastically different, carefully fragmented editing that gives the film a wonderfully novel feel and imparts the meaning of what is being said or done in a much different way than the Hollywood staple method of simply splicing things [...]
I took a bit of a vacation 2008-04-23 15:29:33 For all those pining away at this site and wondering when the next update will come, my answer is soon. I have been on a week or so vacation, and just scheduled some posts in advance to keep things going. I am now working on the next edition of the Great Directors series, so stay [...]
Great Directors: Steven Soderbergh 2008-04-24 16:00:09 The fifth entry in my GreatDirectors
series profiles Steven
Soderberg best known for his work with for his work with Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels and Erin Brokovich. He was born January 14, 1963, in Goergia, in the US. Steven’s interest in film began at least in high school and, upon graduation, he moved [...]
RSS issues settled and new computer arrives 2008-06-11 14:55:14 Alright, I think I’ve fixed the RSS issues that some of you had written in about. For whatever reason the link between Feedburner and this site was no longer pointing correctly, which is strange given that I made no changes that I can recall, but in any event, is now (hopefully) fixed.
I have about six [...] Read more:settled
eXistenZ, 1999 2008-06-07 12:10:47 eXistenZ is director David Cronenberg’s 1999 film that is his strangest and most disturbing yet. It was overshadowed during its release, but has picked up a bit of a cult fan-base since it was released on DVD.
A world-famous, celebrity virtual reality game designer named Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is unveiling a demonstration of [...]
Lack of reviews and RSS feed 2008-05-29 16:33:40 My apologies for the lack of new reviews
at their regular intervals. I am still writing them, but the computer on which I publish them had a hard drive failure, so it’ll be a little while before they’re back to being posted. A replacement is supposedly already shipped, so it shouldn’t be much longer.
It was [...]
Happenstance (Battement d’ailes du papillon, Le), 2000 2008-05-13 19:05:01 Writer/director Laurent Firode’s 2000 film Happenstance (Le Battement d’ailes du papillon) is a fabulous French-language romantic comedy starring Audrey Tautou, one of my favorite actresses, as Irene, the leading character. It is a romantic comedy that uses its simplicity to showcase the elements of Chaos Theory or the Butterfly Effect, where one action leads [...]
25th Hour, 2002 2008-05-10 15:44:18 Spike Lee takes the novel writing talent of David Benioff and changes it into a screenplay to bring us this gut-wrenching story of regret, confusion, love, and loss and under Lee’s direction and his actors’ talents brings out a simultaneously heart-breaking and heart-warming story that is infused with a feeling of terrible, terrible regret in [...]
Hamburger Hill, 1987 2008-05-03 21:17:09 Hamburger Hill is the 1987 movie directed by John Irvin and written by James Carabatsos about the famous and brutal 10-day battle during the Vietnam War for a hill between the 101st Airborne Company of the US Army and the army of North Vietnam in which hundreds were killed and wounded on both sides in [...] Read more:Hamburger
Event Horizon, 1997 2008-04-29 19:57:47 Paul W.S. Anderson is not a director known for producing artistic films and this is no exception, but what he does deliver in Event Horizon is one of the most original and terrifying horror movies of the 1990s. Starring Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller, Sam Neill as Dr. William Weir, Kathleen Quinlan as Peters, [...]
The Last Kind of Scotland, 2006 2008-04-27 21:29:14 The Last King of Scotland
is the story of Idi Admin (Forest Whitaker), the leader who came to power in Uganda in a coup in the 1970s. But the story is told through the eyes of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) who is bored with his life in Scotland and decides to go and see [...]
Le Scaphandre et le papillon, 2007 2008-06-18 11:01:38 Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is the phenomenal adaptation of French journalist and media mogul Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoirs after a stroke at the age of 42 leaves him completely paralyzed except for his left eye, ending his career as editor of world-renowned magazine Elle and how he dictates his [...]
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