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The Son of Man ( Martin Donovan ) and Magdalena ( P.J. Harvey ) arrive in New York City on New Year's Eve 1999, the final evening of humankind. The duo have arrived to open the Book of Life, found in a locker numbered 666 in the form of a Mac powerbook, to facilitate the coming apocalypse as ...
Celebrities
P.J. Hogan
Martin Donovan
Hong Kong cinema has forever changed its image of the undercover cop. John Woo's Hard Boiled (1992) is my earliest memory: Woo's phenomenal action sequences accompanied by excellent performances by Yun-fat Chow and especially Tony Leung Chiu Wai, as the undercover cop. Leung's representative ...
Movies
Under a beautiful purple dark night sky sits the asylum setting of Fernando di Leo's Slaughter Hotel (1971), his sole contribution to the horror/thriller genre, a genre, perhaps, for which Di Leo had little love. Its opening sequence is a signal: a dark caped figure is prowling outside the ...
Celebrities
Leonardo DiCaprio
Father Sang-hyun ( Kang-ho Song ) sits in the confessional and counsels a young nurse who is thinking of suicide after her boyfriend has dumped her. Sang-hyun tells her three things: he gives her penance, "twenty hail marys,"; seek the help of science by taking anti-depressants; and offers ...
Movies
A young woman has a flat tire in the middle of a crowded street in Hong Kong. The older gentleman behind her is irritated that she won't move her car to the side, so he takes a right turn down another street. The older gentleman inches by a large truck, and its cargo of water splashes onto the ...
Movies
Brilliant. Phenomenal. Amazing. These are words that describe Ruggero Deodato's Raiders of Atlantis (1983), and perhaps, I'm the only one who is using them. Mike ( Christopher Connelly ) and Washington ( Tony King ) are ex-soldiers turned mercenaries. At a Miami mansion, the two perform a ...
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After milking the cows, a young maiden goes wandering to encounter a sinister vampire! She's bitten and taken to a villa which houses a troupe of ballerinas. The local farmer who brought the young milk maiden says there's a vampire on the loose, but the Professor ( Pier Ugo Gragnani ) believes ...
Television
One of Jess Franco 's few and recent films, Incubus (2002) was produced by One Shot Productions and released on DVD by Sub Rosa . The 90s and 00s haven't been critically kind to Franco nor have they garnered him any new fans really. Incubus is a low-budget, shot on video, remake of his sublime ...
Movies
James Franco
Sophie Marceau's Marie tells Francis Huster's Léo, "Here, with you. It's not like in the movies or in books, where everything is precise, thought-out, organized with a clear-cut goal. Everthing's chaos, chance, pain, disorder..." These playful lines from within Andrzej Zulawski's L'amour ...
Movies
Sophie Marceau
Leonardo DiCaprio
Mickey Rourke
A man is running frantically through a neighborhood (future film director, Walter Hill). A gate is opened by a young girl which offers the grateful man sanctuary from who or whatever was chasing him. She slits his throat with a straight razor. Point Dune. From a brightly-lit hallway, the ...
Movies
Dune
In 1972, Jess Franco was in a period referred to by the authors of essential tome, Obsession: The Films of Jess Franco , as "The Peak Years: 1970-1973." Of the fifty to sixty films that I've seen from Franco, these years hold some of my favorites. This span also sees the end of the Spanish ...
Celebrities
James Franco
Cesare Canevari's Matalo (1970) begins with a powerful image of a woman covered completely in black, presumably a widow, in the foreground of a quiet, dusty town, where its inhabitants are standing at the threshold of the jail. A criminal ( Corrado Pani ) is being led to the noose. The ...
Movies
Although Crows Zero is not Takashi Miike's most commercial piece of cinema (that award goes to his 2003 film, One Missed Call ), the film certainly is one of his most romantic, sentimental, and unabashedly escapist films that I've seen from his diverse filmography. Crows Zero is also as ...
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Raúl Artigot 's The Witches' Mountain (1972) has a very bizarre pre-credit sequence: lovely Carla arrives to her wealthy villa after a few days stint away. She notices immediately a wig on her lawn with a large butcher knife stuck into it. She goes looking for her cat and finds its corpse ...
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Greta
Wai (Chien-lien Wu) is atop a large building and poised to jump. Police officer, Tommy (Chi Wah Wong) and his colleague and fiance, Laura (Li Yu) arrive to talk her down; yet Wai is adamant, because she has a plan: after her death, another spirit will "walk in" to her body, and Wai is very ...
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Young pretty Martine ( Isabelle Goguey ) finds employment, after a long stint without, through her fiance, Serge ( Michel Duchezeau ), at the Deadlock House, caring for the elderly. She arrives a day early before her position is to begin, and Madame Hélène ( Betty Beckers ) is slightly ...
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A glass jar filled with fluid. Half empty or half full? Fluid displaced? With what? A golem , born from the DNA found in the bacteria of a meteorite fallen to Earth. The glass jar is in Miami, FL in an underground, super-secret lab. The fate of the world is at risk. David Warbeck has his gun ...
Celebrities
Luca ( Luis La Torre ) obsesses over sexy Mirna ( Erna Schurer ), who abruptly breaks off their affair one day. Luis doesn't leave her alone: he begins showing up unexpectedly wherever she may be. She asks to be left alone, but Luca won't allow it. He has a film that he would like to project for ...
Movies
Whether the cinema brought on the sleaze or the sleaze brought on the cinema Hans A. did not know. Gothic horror cinema, with its first images brought in 1910, alongside other modern technological advances by Thomas Edison , of Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein , continuing with 1931 and Bela ...
