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Easy Money (Snabba Cash)
Imagine if you will, a mixture of the grittiness found in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy, mixed with the themes of honor amongst thieves in Jules Dassin’s Rififi and you’ll get to the heart of Easy Money. Known as Snabba Cash, in its native Sweden and based off of a 2006 novel, written by Jens [...]
Willow on Blu-ray
Sometimes nostalgia isn’t enough to get you through a movie. Revisiting a film you had been fond of in your youth after a decade or more can, and quite often does, prove to be a major disappointment. Such was the case for me when I revisited The Last Action Hero a year or two back– [...]
Hemel (Heaven)
Sacha Polak’s debut feature film, Hemel (Heaven), is an intimate portrayal of transition into femininity and the childhood attachments that people shed as they turn into adults. Divided into eight individual chapters, this sexually charged character study follows Hemel (Hannah Hoekstra), as she goes from one sexual tryst after another. The various sexual relationships that [...]
Satellite of Love
Three longtime friends: Sam (Nathan Phillips), Blake (Zachary Knighton; ABC’s Happy Endings), and Katherine (Shannon Lucio) all seem inseparable. Sam and Katherine are in a relationship, but there’s an intimacy they share with Blake that makes him never seem like a third wheel. All is well. Fast forward 3 years and now Blake and Katherine [...]
The Place Beyond the Pines
In 2010, I recall standing outside in the bitter cold of Park City, Utah, hoping to catch of glimpse of a Sundance highlight, Blue Valentine. Star-studded with two pop icons – Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams – the line was understandably lengthy, making the chance of getting rush tickets near impossible. We failed to be part of the lucky [...]
Les Miserables: From Stage to Screen
The new book: Les Miserables: From Stage to Screen takes the prize for one of the geekiest books ever written, and this is very good thing, if you’re a Les Mis fan that is. Bursting at the seams with related memorabilia and dozens of intriguing photographs, this book serves as the perfect summation of the [...]
Beyond The Hills
Candlelight flickers in a summer breeze, as a confining darkness descends upon a screaming girl chained to a makeshift cross. The prayers of St. Basil swirl violently over her, spoken by a priest and four nuns who believe the woman is possessed by a demon. Every anguished moment echoes along the walls, and soon after three days [...]
The Silence
Whether you find it a psychological drama, crime thriller, or meditation on the anti-social among us, The Silence is bound to stay in your thoughts for some time. It’s another Swedish import which is almost impossible to pull yourself away from once you start watching. If you’ve enjoyed any of the other, similar types of films [...]
Tristana
How lucky are we that in less than two months’ time, 2013 will have heralded the debut of not one, but two films from Spanish master filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, on Blu-ray?! In January, of course, we saw the fantastic release of Buñuel’s final film, 1977’s That Obscure Object of Desire, on Blu-ray from the Studiocanal [...]
Ashley Bell Interview
People have an odd way of catching you offguard. Sometimes the most terrifying onscreen entities can prove to be the nicest people you’ve had a chance to talk to. Such is the case with breakout horror star, Ashley Bell, who audiences may recognize from the 2010 “little indie horror film that could” The Last Exorcism. [...]
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