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Stale Popcorn: Drive like a Maniac
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Thursday, June 6, 2013. Drive like a Maniac. It was just last month that we were discussing the festival sales poster for Greg McLean's Wolf Creek 2. Blatantly ripping off the design. Of the Evil Dead. Remake from earlier in the year (not to mention the earlier startling. Of the Prom Night. Poster in the design for Patrick. Remake). Well, now another high profile horror flick has gone and unashamedly mimicked another film's poster for their own game. This poster for Maniac. That the mind boggles. This is...
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Stale Popcorn: Rush to the Waxworks
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Rush to the Waxworks. I feel like I've seen the trailer for Rush. Ahead of every single new release movie from the last six months. You know the one? However, the trailer for all its fault at least makes the film look like not-a-comedy. This Spanish poster, however, I can't say the same:. Yikes They look like they ventured out from a wax museum in the Uncanny Valley. They'd fit right in in this Los Angeles wax museum. See how distracted I have already gotten about this movie? The A...
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Stale Popcorn: MIFF 2012 Review: Maniac
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Monday, August 13, 2012. MIFF 2012 Review: Maniac. Country: France / USA. Does some things very well, but being a remake of William Lustig’s 1980 skeazy horror classic isn’t necessarily one of them. Sure, Franck Khalfoun’s film takes some of the bare bones of Lustig’s down-and-out slasher – the scalpings, the mannequins, the photographer – but repurposes them to a world that models itself more on the 1980s fetishisation from Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. Takes a different tact, switching the action (R...
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Stale Popcorn: Review: Continental & The Secret Disco Revolution
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. The Secret Disco Revolution. The Secret Disco Revolution. Country: Canada / USA / France. 8220;In order to be successful, you either have to create a desire, or fulfil a need”, says Continental bath owner Steve Ostrow in writer/director Malcolm Ingram’s third homo-centric documentary Continental. After Small Town Gay Bar. And Before You Know It. Are two others to came out of this year’s SXSW festival – Continental. Read the rest at Glenn Dunks.com. The Secret Disco Revolution.
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Stale Popcorn: 50 Shades More Interesting with a Female Director
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Friday, June 21, 2013. More Interesting with a Female Director. I have no genuine opinions of 50 Shades of Gray. Was rated NC17 for (as was widely assumed) a scene of female sexual gratification? Yeah, that. And so much more. The announcement of a director for the project suddenly took a turn for the curious now that Sam Taylor-Johnson has been hired. Both books share highly sexualised content and weathered critical storms (albeit at different ends of the spectrum). Of course, 50 Shades of Gray. Now, if ...
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Stale Popcorn: Turning Up
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Friday, June 28, 2013. It seems that the Sydney-based omnibus film Sydney, I Love You. Is never going to get made due to legal issues, which means there's only one anthology film coming out from these shores. That's still more than I can recall happening in this country in a very long time. The film is The Turning. Adapted from seventeen short stories by Tim Winton (whose Cloudstreet. After starring in the stage version), Harrison Gilbertson, Dan Wyllie, Matt Nable, Callan Mulvey (known to most outside o...
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Stale Popcorn: Travelling the Mystery Road
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Thursday, June 6, 2013. Travelling the Mystery Road. Remains the best film I can recall having seen that never actually got a release. When the end of the decade comes along and we're discussing the best films of the last ten years, Dreamland. Mentions a St Tropez festival screening as well as a very limited release in Paris, France, so hopefully a few more people out there had a similar reaction to mine. I bring this up because the trailer for Sen's next film has been released. Mystery Road. And I'm sup...
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Stale Popcorn: Dolly Parton by Andy Warhol?
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Dolly Parton by Andy Warhol? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Secret Disco Revolution. 2013, dir. Kastner, C. Arsenic and Old Lace. 1944, dir. Capra, B. 1938, dir. Wyler, C. 2013, dir. Johnson, B. 1938, dir. Hawks, B. The Adventures of Robin Hood. 1938, dir. Curtiz and Keighley, A. 2013, dir. Shyamalan, D. 2008, dir. Zhangke, B. 2013, dir. Gordon, C-. Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. 1982, dir. Altman, A. The Kings of Summer. 2013, dir. Helgeland, B-.
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Stale Popcorn: Tony Tony Tony Awards (Brief Thoughts)
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Tony Tony Tony Awards (Brief Thoughts). Today, over at The Film Experience, I look at Cyndi Lauper's win at last night's Tony Awards. Gosh, watching that music video is rather scary, isn't it? I have no idea what Vibes. Is all about from watching it, but I suspect there's a lot of racist representations of Asian culture. I'm not surprised to read that Cyndi was a bit embarrassed by the whole and stopped performing it until audiences in (where else? Yikes I still love this moment th...
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