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Bright Star (2009)
Feb 14th
Director/writer: Jane Campion | Rated: PG | Review date: 14-Feb-2010 – Happy Valentine’s Day!
Jane Campion’s Bright Star is the biopic following John Keats and his romance with Fanny Brawne during the last years of his life. Ben Whishaw plays Keats, the underrated and struggling poet. Fanny Brawne, played by Abbie Cornish, is the girl next door and aspiring fashion designer who’s at first rather unimpressed with poetry to say the least. Soon enough though, the two become drawn to one another and an exciting love affair begins.
Campion does a great job capturing the romanticism of 19th century London. The costume and More >
Run! Bitch Run! (2009)
Feb 8th
Director/writer: Joseph Guzman | Co-writer: Robert James Hayes II | Rated: Unrated (extreme violence and sexuality) | Review date: 8-Feb-2010
A few grindhouse revival flicks have made their way to me recently, and I welcome them with open arms. Not growing up with this particular genre, I missed out on the whole experience. Luckily, thanks to filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Rob Zombie, a quiet but prevalent resurgence of these trashy and exploitative films has emerged, introducing the nasty to a whole new generation. Run! Bitch Run! is one of these particular films that is an excellent throwback to the tasteless style More >
Immortel (ad vitam) (2004)
Feb 7th
aka Immortal
Director/writer: Enki Bilal | Rated: R (nudity) | Review date: 7-Feb-2010
Immortal takes place in a futuristic version of New York City, more specifically in the year 2095. The bizarre appearance of a floating Pyramid comes out of nowhere and hovers mysteriously over the city. It’s inhabitants are ancient Egyptian gods, one of which is Horus. Horus is sent down to the city in order to seek a host human body and mate with a chosen human, and he only has 7 days to do so.
In the city resides a mysterious young woman named Jill (Linda Hardy) with white skin and More >
The Caretaker (2010)
Feb 6th
Director: Bryce Olson | Rated: R | Review date: 6-Feb-2010
A group of hormone driven highschoolers devise a plan to scare their dates on their Homecoming dance. It just so happens that the dance falls on Halloween, so the boys thought it would be a brilliant idea to scare the girls in hopes that it would somehow end up fulfilling their sexual desires. Snail (James Immekus), Topher (Andrew St. John), and Ricky (Diego Torres) plan on sidetracking from the dance to an old orchard that hosts a legend of a demented killer.
The legend holds that a caretaker became so obsessed and More >
Sleep Dealer (2009)
Feb 3rd
Director/writer: Alex Rivera & David Riker (screenplay) | Rated: PG-13 | Review date: 3-Feb-2010
In the near future overrun by technology and a militarized state of mind, Memo (Luis Fernando Peña) lives on his family’s modest milpa, passing the time listening to radio transmissions from his makeshift scanner. While Memo lives his dreams of the outside world through a pair of headphones, he has no idea that the high-tech outside world is about to hit closer to home in a way that he never imagined. Shortly after his world is shattered, Memo sets out for Tijuana to work in the factories, More >
