Posts Tagged ‘Elijah Wood’
Film Review – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Grace MacCaullay is having the worst week ever. First, she gets married into a rich family that forces her to play a game as a form of initiation. Then, we come to find out that the game in question is hide and seek, except she…
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Episode 151 – A Haunting in Venice
For this week’s podcast, we review Kenneth Branagh‘s third Agatha Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice. We also discuss the WGA‘s gains now that the writer’s strike has come to an end, as well as a few other movie news items. For our streaming homework,…
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SXSW Film Review – The Trust
What starts as a quirky buddy cop story about two guys trying to game the system turns into a tale of dark obsession in The Trust. Coming in at a just about Direct-to-Video level, Jim Stone (Nicolas Cage) a Las Vegas police officer in charge…
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Double Feature Showdown – Maniac (1980) vs. Maniac (2012)
I am a big fan of director William Lustig’s movies Maniac Cop and Vigilante, and have been looking forward to watching Maniac (1980), his first feature, for a while now. I don’t think everything he directed is gold (I quite dislike Maniac Cop 2 and Uncle…
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Double Feature Showdown – The Faculty vs. Cooties
I’m going to be honest with you; I am not a fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I kind of like the books, but I haven’t read them in about twenty years, so who knows what I think now.) The movies are…
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SXSW Film Review – Made in Japan
Made in Japan is a musical documentary where the passion for the subject is clear but the craft behind it is less compelling. Tomi Fujiyama is a name probably not known to many of us, but she is one of the defining personalities when it…
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Film Review – Grand Piano
If you’d never heard of or seen a trailer for Grand Piano (and chances are you haven’t so how did you even find this?), I imagine the conversation going something like this: Me: Just saw that movie Grand Piano. You: Grand Whatzit Now? Me: Elijah…
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Film Review – Maniac
Apparently growing up watching your mother snort lines and prostitute herself out to random strangers can lead to some pretty severe mommy issues. In Maniac, a fairly faithful remake of the 1980 cult classic, it leads to violent, homicidal urges. This gory horror film “stars”…
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