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December Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Alice in the Cities *** The Alien Dead ** Army of Darkness **1/2 Astro-Zombies * Bender's Big Score *** Bitter Rice ***1/2 Black Night *** Blade Runner: Final Cut ***1/2 The Bourne Ultimatum *** A...

Wild Camp (2005) Viewed 12/24/2007 (first viewing) Disturbing drama details the relationship between a disaffected young girl and a moody ex-con. The two discover a degree of happiness in each other's company but find that the prejudices of others will forever keep them apart - unless they...

The Namesake (2007) Viewed 12/17/2007 (first viewing) Nicely done story of two generations of an Indian family living in America. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Underdog (2007) Viewed 12/18/2007 (first viewing) Adequate live action film chronicling...

Zombie Outbreak (2007) Viewed 12/10/2007 (first viewing) No frills undead epic has a single mother, four teens and a couple of top secret government zombie hunters fighting for their lives after an outbreak of the living dead. Starts off like it might be sorta decent, but gets worse as it...

La Vie en Rose (2007) Viewed 12/1/2007 (first viewing) Compelling bio of famed Parisian singer Edith Piaf, driven by Marion Cotillard's stunning lead performance. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Charming Mass Suicide (2000) Viewed 12/1/2007 (first...

November Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. After **1/2 Ariel *** Awaken the Dead *** The Big Mess *1/2 Black Caesar *** Brains **1/2 But Forever in My Mind *** Cadaverella ** The Captive Heart *** City of Women **1/2 Court of Lonely Royals...

Vares 2: Dead Angel (2007) Viewed 11/26/2007 (first viewing) Hardluck P.I. Vares is back in this entertaining sequel. This time he investigates the death of a call girl and is mired in a conspiracy. Pretty much a Hollywood film by way of Finland. :star: :star: :star: out of :star...

Awaken the Dead (2007) Viewed 11/19/2007 (first viewing) Interesting undead flick has a priest with a shady past being directed to the home of an old friend whose daughter has likewise been summoned. Unfortunately, while they're trying to figure out why they're there, there's an...

Tainted (1998) Viewed 11/12/2007 (first viewing) It's Clerks meets Dracula in this low rent indie effort. Two video store clerks discover that a co-worker is a vampire while on a road trip to see Blade Runner. Unfortunately they also discover that another vampire is planning to taint a...

And I'd watch Meet the Feebles over LOTR any day of the week. :D

The Dead Have Risen (2004) Viewed 11/5/2007 (first viewing) Z-grade schlock from Charles E. Cullen has a minister's radio rantings raising the dead. Among them is a CML (Country Music Legend) zombie who searches for whiskey and his still-living paramour Loretta Lynn! Can a laconic...

The Treatment (2006) Viewed 11/1/2007 (first viewing) Engaging romantic drama about a neurotic literature teacher and his relationships with his tyrannical analyst and the wealthy widow with whom he falls in love. :star: :star: :star: 1/2 out of :star: :star: :star: :star: The...

October Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Accatone *** After Midnight *** After This Our Exile *** Antibodies *** Bad Taste *** Black Sheep **1/2 Blade of Death *1/2 Blood of the Beast **1/2 The Boneyard *** The Burning ** Buttcrack **...

Tokyo Twilight (1957) Viewed 10/29/2007 (first viewing) Finished up Criterion's Late Ozu set with this compelling drama of two sisters trying to find happiness in the wake of their long-departed mother. With one sister having marital problems and the other facing a personal crisis...

Night of the Zombies (1981) Viewed 10/22/2007 Don't ask me why I revisited this low grade Nazi zombie flick. (The things I do for the ZMA thread!) A U.S. secret agent searches for a strange chemical used in a WWII battle that took place in a remote alpine region of Germany. But...

Splatter Beach (2007) Viewed 10/15/2007 (first viewing) A journalism student investigates a series of disappearances on a beach, suspecting that sea monsters are responsible. Lo and behold, he's right! Low rent version of Humanoids from the Beach promises much but offers little...

The Perfect Crime (2004) Viewed 10/8/2007 (first viewing) Very enjoyable black comedy about a lady's man (and lady's clothing salesman) who accidentally kills his boss during an argument. And if that weren't bad enough, the homely nutcase of a clerk who witnessed the incident...

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Viewed 10/1/2007 Revisited Wes Craven's voodoo thriller that has an American anthropologist investigating zombies in Haiti. But the undead turn out to be the least of his worries as he's targeted by an evil government official! Okay, but nothing...

September Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Alien *** All Quiet on the Western Front ***1/2 Autumn Sonata *** Beatrice Cenci *** The Beautiful Washing Machine *1/2 Beshkempir the Adopted Son *** The Big Steal *** Black Book *** Bohemian Life...

I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) Viewed 9/24/2007 Continued my revisits to the cinema of Aki Kaurismaki with this black comedy about an expatriate Frenchman living in England. Laid off from his public works job with only a cheap gold watch to show for his fifteen years of service, he...

Yeah, overlength has certainly become a problem lately as filmmakers seem to equate longer with better. Surprising since you'd think studios would prefer shorter movies! One of my favs, Aki Kaurismaki, rarely makes films longer than 90 minutes and I find none of his movies the poorer for it.

Where Danger Lives (1950) Viewed 9/17/2007 (first viewing) Middling noir stars Robert Mitchum as a kindly doctor suckered by a psychotic woman who's just killed her husband. On the run and suffering from a concussion, can he see through her devious nature and save himself? :star...

The Last Winter (2006) Viewed 9/10/2007 (first viewing) An oil research team discovers the Arctic tundra is thawing out and that something seems to be seeping up from below ground, driving members of the crew mad. Is the phenomenon natural or is Mother Nature getting revenge for the...

The Zombie Diaries (2007) Viewed 9/1/2007 (first viewing) UK filmmakers Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett beat George Romero to the punch with this video diary-themed zombie apocalypse flick. A mysterious virus sweeps the globe, turning its victims into flesh- eating ghouls. A news...

August Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Act of Violence *** Amelie ***1/2 The Baron of Arizona *** Bicycle Thieves **** The Bow *** The Bridesmaid *** The Castle *** Conversations With Other Women *** Crime Wave *** The Darwin Awards **...

Dead Clowns (2006) Viewed 8/27/2007 (first viewing) A circus train derails and sinks into a bay, leaving a carload of clowns entombed underwater. Fifty years later they return from the dead and stalk random victims in a town beseiged by a hurricane. Cheap and murky, but given a boost...

Flesh Eater (1988) Viewed 8/20/2007 (first viewing) First zombie Bill Hinzman directed and starred in this redo of Night of the Living Dead. A farmer unearths a zombified witch and unleashes an epidemic of the undead on the world. Familiar, but not as horrible as I'd heard (bad...

Zombie (Zero) (2001) Viewed 8/13/2007 (first viewing) Teens camping in the woods witness two strangers burying a corpse and dig it up only to discover they've uncovered a zombie! Undead outbreak ensues. Disposable short that isn't too badly done. Not sure what the titular zero is...

Re: Branagh's Hamlet Glad you enjoyed it, buddy. You do realize there was a widescreen VHS edition? Didn't have to wait this long. :)

The Hills Are Dead (2006) Viewed 8/6/2007 (first viewing) Cheap short has zombies attacking people in the hills outside a small town. Can a scientist and a redneck stop the undead? :star: 1/2 out of :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: Doomed (2007) Viewed 8/6/2007 (first...