| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharks in Venice - Unrated | December 20, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Is it Fall Yet? (Daria in Is It Fall Yet?) - Unrated | December 18, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Is It College Yet? (Daria: Is It College Yet?) - Unrated | December 18, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| 20 Million Miles to Earth - PG | December 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Earth vs. the Flying Saucers - Unrated | December 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| It Came from Beneath the Sea - Unrated | December 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still - PG-13 | December 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Teenagers From Outer Space - Unrated | December 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Invasion of the Saucer Men (Invasion of the Hell Creatures)(Spacemen Saturday Night) - Unrated | December 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Slumber Party Massacre III (Stab in the Dark) - R |
Everything slashers have ever been accused of being by critics and parental groups. Lacking the subversiveness of the original and the sheer insanity of its sequel, this third encarnation is nothing more than a throwaway cheapie. References to its predecessors (a scene involving a pizza, phallic commentary, voyeurism) feel forced and tacked on and, despite not being as obviously padded as "Slumber Party Massacre 2" there was no reason it should have been longer than an hour. To be avoided. |
December 15, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Bang - Unrated | December 14, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| La Terza Madre (Mother of Tears: The Third Mother) - Unrated |
Completely devoid of atmosphere, class, stylishness and any semblance of direction, "La Terza Madre" is a tremendous disappointment and perhaps the final nail in the coffin of what has become Dario Argento's career. His outpùt over the last decade had been of systematically decreasing quality, but the hope always remained that going back to his roots would breathe new life into his art. After this, however, there are no two ways about it: the man truly has lost it. That the film was either shot or (for some incomprehensible reason) transferred to digital should tell you all you need to know about just how far he has fallen. Much like the work of his contemporary, Lucio Fulci, "La Terza Madre" is nothing but an excuse to pile on the gore. The film goes completely out of its way (and much to the detriment of its already troublesome pacing and what little mood it had reluctantly managed to generate) to focus on the violence. The first kill,: poorly edited, amateurishly staged and drawn out beyond comprehension, is enough to reveal where the film's priorities lie: blood and guts uber alles. Throw in an insurmnountable ammount of expository dialogue (a necessity, perhaps, due to budgetary restraints but no more the pleasant for it), putrid acting (Dario Argento tends to bring out the worst in his daughter) and a point-and-shoot directorial approach that any hack with a camera could have duplicated and you are left with a lifeless mass cobbled together seemingly at random by people with nary a clue as to what they were doing or, more importantly, why. The horror frat boys (as exemplified by Eli Roth, their idol and patron saint) will no doubt love the film, laughing and hollering their way through it and that is perhaps the saddest thing of all. If this film is any indication then Argento has become everything he was always unfairly accused of being, a parody of what he actually was, a one note running joke. Forget style over substance: his trilogy capper is gore AS style AS substance, and all the cameos in the world from former collaborators can't save it from itself. |
December 14, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) - Unrated | Just about flawless. | December 12, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Watership Down - PG | "All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenevet they catch you they will kill you. But first, they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, Prince with the Swift Warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." | December 11, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Sherlock Holmes - PG-13 | December 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Slumber Party Massacre - R | Despite poor word of mouth, surprisingly smart and incisive. | December 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Be Kind Rewind - PG-13 | December 7, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama - R | December 7, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Slumber Party Massacre II (Don't Let Go) - R | I'm tempted to give it a positive rating due to the sheer, anarchic insanity the film made me privy to, but I can't overlook how incompetent the vast majority of it is. | December 6, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Sleepaway Camp II - Unhappy Campers - R | December 5, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Sleepaway Camp - R | December 5, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Rear Window - PG | December 4, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Brothers - R | Another remake. | December 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Cabin Boy - PG-13 | December 2, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Prom Night in Mississippi - Unrated | Godawful directorial decisions ruin what could have been. | December 1, 2009 | N/A |
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