A warped comedy of the 1990's, if you had a puppet show and a carnival spliced with a rock music video- this would be that bizzarre movie that you need to see once for all originality. A spoiled actor with friends venture to a sideshow overlorded by a mad-scientist carnival operator who turns them into monsterous sideshow members themselves. If all else, check out the 'Bill & Ted' reunion on Alex Winter and look for Keanu Reeves as a dog-man for the fun of it.
What's great about it: Teenagers and twenty-somethings will love it.
A movie like this would be difficult to duplicate for its release from the 1970's. A blend of crime drama, cornball humor, and Western shoot-ups; Lee Marvin's Nick is a mob enforcer from Chicago set to have Hackman's redneck thug in Missouri pay the outfit 50K or die. Rescuing a young girl (Spacek) from human trafficking, the movie plays on with shoot-ups and chatter that seem more silly than serious. The movie is good for fans of the actors but feels like just about any crime-action film.
The movie has its intrigue but the movie nonetheless felt familar to every revenge criminal movie such as 'Deathwish' and 'Dirty Harry.' Funny to see Los Angeles with little graffiti in the scenes, but the movie is for old movie fans and may not grab much attention. There are some surprises, but the movie stretches longer than needs.
What's great about it: First to set up standard crime action films.
Elastica had their 15 minutes of fame in the nineties only to get tied in legal woes in the years to come. This latest album is attention-span shredding speed alternative pop that could appeal to young kids, teens and nostalgics alike. If 'The Bangles' spliced with 'Primus' it would be this album. Some original songs played under a familiar style.
What's great about it: Short original songs and some samples.
What's not so great: Style that you have heard before.
A British addict/artist/dealer lives in Japan reunited with his adult sister since the deaths of their parents in a car accident. A deal gone bad renders him a ghost in first person perspect seeing the effects of his friends after his demise. A slow movie with weird camera angles, special effects, and a suspended sense of illusion and reality. Total arthouse movie, some nudity/drug content. The movie will either amaze or put u to sleep. Feels like watching a moving painting above all else.
What's great about it: Heavy with special effects and visuals.
What's not so great: Slow, tedious, not for children, substantial plot.
'Curve' hit the UK in 1990-2005, and could have been far bigger in the USA but never touted to be a "pop" band like most. Tapping heavy guitar layering and electric synthisizers... listening to the first CD's 7 songs were back-to-back intense. Absolute club music; Techno music that could shadow 'Depeche Mode' or 'Garbage'. Two discs, 29 songs.
The movie is a simple sci-fi action film set in a post-nuclear future with Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) training a psychic rookie (Olivia Thrilby) in a wasteland society of crime and anarchy. Translated well from the 1975 comic of same name, the movie is simple blunt action and violence with questions on violence over justice. A few surprises in the mix, but no different from mixing 'Mad Max', 'Bladerunner' or 'Robocop' with Dirty Harry in the bowl.
It could have been a jokey Tarantino rip-off but turned into a Seinfeld styled waste of time. Fans of 'In Bruges' may like this, but the movie goes into a bunch of unneeded subplots. Abbie Cornish and Olga Kurylenko are criminally underused actresses who had little screen time or character. The sole draw of the film was Christopher Walken's reformed maniac as the moral draw of the movie entirely. Even music legend Tom Waits is wasted as a disposable character. Great movie if you like small dogs and rabbits, though.
A cross between an 'Elvis' album, mixed with familiar punk sounds- Iggy Pop is underestimated for his age in music as his teamwork with The Trolls, Peaches, Green Day, Sum 41 and past members of The Stooges make the same old sound fresher, new and crisper. The album bleeds rebellion, alienation and same punk themes with a more rock and rockabilly hook. Shame this album wasn't more mainstream.
What's great about it: Pure punk-rock-grunge-techno spiral.
The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page). Chauvinistic, insensitive and conceited, McBurney takes full advantage of the women by bedding each successively -- and then learns the true meaning of "a woman scorned."
Customer Rating
3
Eastwood in a fair and early set movie.
on January 15, 2013
Posted by: Tigon
from California
A somewhat kinky film for its time, 'The Beguiled' is an early work for Clint Eastwood that could attract fans but it's a movie neither a hero epic or a rommance. Clint Eastwood plays a charming and deceptive Union soldier in the Civil War rescued from injuries by hospitable southern girls into a school who he plays on their emotions to keep himself alive. Slow with some tension, the movie reflects on wartimes and feminism in the '70's. More a drama than a date movie by all means, movie trailer included.