Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Clive sez:

Edifyingly, the new season of "Homeland" (Channel 4) had chosen just this time to appear, as if to prove that an international action series can have a plot full of holes and still be 10 times better than "Hunted."

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Fun evil or evil evil?

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

See also:

Saw this on the plane on the way home from China. Not half bad.

Not enough footage in this trailer of the great Kara Hui Ying-hung...

...who dances with Donnie in the film's best fight:

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Copy that.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Miyazaki flashback

Organic Machine: The world of Hayao Miyazaki

Chute, David. Film Comment 34. 6 (Nov/Dec 1998): 62-65.

The Japanese eco-fantasist Hayao Miyazaki is an animation magiclan, a crowd-pleasing storyteller who is also a builder of worlds. He designs meticulously engineered imaginary aircraft, sets their perfect gears spinning, and propels them over mossgreen rolling landscapes, zipping between the sprung columns of ruined castles. He uses animation in a refreshingly direct and intuitive way, reveling in its capacity to lift things off the ground.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

If you can't make it to "Resident Evil"...

Armand sez:

(Olivier) Megaton’s dazzling style (at its best in "Transporter 3" and "Colombiana") goes back to D.W. Griffith’s use of cross-cutting–basic stuff but Mills’ fight with hooligans while his wife is tortured and his daughter is chased along the rooftops of Istanbul really works. His technique provides a visceral and ethical exercise. When Mills confronts his nemesis (Rade Serbedzija), the call for “Justice!” gets corrected: “You mean revenge!” This essence is like what Costa Gavras’ most complex film explored (1970’s "The Confession" about Communist show trials). Beyond the political and religious surface of seeing Americans under siege, "Taken 2" exposes the politics of vengeance, the rationalizing of immorality. This was also the good theme of Neveldine-Taylor’s brilliant "Ghost Rider 2: The Spirit of Vengeance" (also underrated).

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

OK, how about this?

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Like printing money...

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Drinking game...

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