EIFF Review: Temptress of a Thousand Faces
Posted by: Scott Hayes • October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am
I had to see for myself this obscure old bad martial arts movie from the legendary Shaw Brothers. There's nothing like good old ShawScope to put a smile on your face.
I'll admit a guilty pleasure for bad films. This ranks right up there.
I would recommend that people attend this beautiful, powerful, artistic, and strange collection of situational poetry. That is, poems by various authors are read out and related to different life experiences, such as love, death, birth, truth, beauty, etc.
This was a pretty complex and challenging movie to enjoy because it's in German, so the subtitles are key.
Team America: World Police is vile, vulgar, and the most politically incorrect movie since the last time Trey Parker and Matt Stone got together on the big screen. It's also very, very funny. But those expecting a lop-sided, Bush-bashing, Michael Moore-style rant may be disappointed.
Well, it seems it doesn't take much for South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to offend someone with their politically incorrect and often abrasive version of humor. After watching the first ten minutes of their new film, someone is sure to scream for a refund.
Laura Linney has an effortless acting talent to portray most of her characters with grace, charm, and ease. She becomes the light of the film. Other similarly talented actresses include Elisabeth Shue, Molly Parker, and Nicole Kidman.
Review: Team America: World Police
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am
In world politics, the concept of America acting as sort of a world police force has come up time and time again. Just take George W. Bush's recent actions in the war on terrorism and his attack on Iraq based on the so-called existence of weapons of mass destruction, despite the fact that no weapons existed in that country.
Ryan (Matt Fentiman) and Grant (Mark Hildreth) aren't your normal couple, but they are in love and after dating one another for a long period of time they have decided to spend the rest of their lives together as one.
Previewing the 2004/2005 Television Season: Part 1
Posted by: Dean Kish • October 11, 2004 @ 12:00am
Traditionally, the new television season comes the Monday after the Emmy telecast. But in recent years, networks have begun rolling their new seasons out before the Emmys have even aired. Now this season, it seems that networks have no idea when to debut new shows.
Interview: Wilby Wonderful director Daniel MacIvor
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 10, 2004 @ 12:00am
As the film festival entered its second week and I entered about day five or six of minimal sleeping, I'd seen far too many movies, and the location at which I live began to seem a distant memory, I took a step back.
Caution, this film may induce outbursts of "road rage"!
The 1998 French film Taxi spawned two sequels and became one of the most successful writing projects for French director/screenwriter phenom Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita).
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