This review contains both mild spoilers and enthusiastic praise.Enter the Void is a 21st century "head" movie designed for consumers of psychedelics, designer drugs, and potent substances yet to be invented or discovered. Points of reference include the Star-Gate...
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by Rodney Perkins, March 21, 2010 1:36 AM
There are so many books, articles, and documentaries available on the subject of American exploitation cinema that new revelations are increasingly scarce and unlikely. A new documentary called American Grindhouse from director Elijiah Drenner is an example of the...
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by Rodney Perkins, March 20, 2010 1:15 PM
I feel like such a musically ignorant cuss, but I'd never really heard of Broken Social Scene before watching the latest movie by Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, Hard Core Logo). And now I'm a fan, both of Broken Social Scene and...
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by Peter Martin, March 18, 2010 9:29 AM
Swiss science fiction offering Cargo is a difficult film to judge because depending which criteria you use you will arrive at wildly different conclusions. If, for example, you judge the film acknowledging it as the first significant attempt at...
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by Todd Brown, March 17, 2010 9:00 PM
(Possible alternate title: "Men Suck And All Women Are Whores!" ) The Serbs must have a very peculiar view of their own nationality, judging by the way they choose to portray themselves in recent cinematic output. Soon to be...
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by Ard Vijn, March 17, 2010 8:55 PM
[With Rob Stefaniuk's Suck screening at SXSW now seems a good time to revisit my review from the film's world premiere in Toronto.]Joey has a problem. His band, The Winners, is on the verge of making it big. This...
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by Todd Brown, March 17, 2010 7:10 PM
Although the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival doesn't officially get under way until Sunday, press screenings have begun and yesterday I got the chance to see Gaspar Noe's latest piece of shock & awe Cinema. Gaspar Noe makes Lars...
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by James Marsh, March 17, 2010 12:11 AM
Marco Ferreri's 1969 film Dillinger is Dead is now out on DVD from The Criterion Collection. Ferreri's film is an exercise in pop art surrealism that captures the aesthetic and political zeitgeist of the 60s. Connoisseurs of avant-garde cinema will...
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by Rodney Perkins, March 16, 2010 9:00 PM