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Film Review – Kunoichi: Lady Ninja
Kunoichi: Lady Ninja opens with bad guys storming a sanctuary for women (known as a convent). Heads (and eye balls) roll – literally. Then the daughter of the original owner of the convent comes back and scares away the bad guys. The convent hires the…
READ MOREFilm Review – Vincent: A Life in Color; Song Sung Blue
I’m not much of a documentary watcher. I don’t dislike them, but it just doesn’t occur to me to choose a documentary when I want to watch a movie. This is why I need film festivals: to show me what I’m missing.
READ MOREFilm Review – Sword of Doom
Sword of Doom is an old black and white samurai movie from Japan. A swordsman shows up on a mountainside and kills and old man praying at a shrine to Buddha. The swordsman is supposed to fight another guy in the town the following day…
READ MOREFilm Review – You, the Living
Greetings, MacGuffin readers. I’m Brandi and I’ll be your newest contributor.
READ MOREFilm Review – Happy Times
Happy Times (or Xingfu Shiguang) is a Chinese film about an aging bachelor, Zhao, who’s pretty much desperate to find a wife to take care of him in his old age. He meets up with this rather rotund lady who seems all sweet and jolly…
READ MOREFilm Review – 9
I’m not a major fan of animated films – I was probably held back due to my dislike of comics (aka I like girls) – aside from all but a handful of films. I was unsure of this film, but once I saw Crispin Glover…
READ MOREFilm Review – Sex Drive
A high school kid who’s playing the part of a nerdy kid (if they wanted a real nerdy kid they would have found ME in high school) who has some trouble with girls. He meets a girl on the internet and despite him having a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Zombieland
Zombieland is a zombie film with the running-crazy zombies rather than the undead crawling up out of their graves kind of zombies. It stars Woody Harrelson, whom I personally have blacklisted from film since his brilliant performance on Cheers, back in the day. This movie…
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