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I should probably first explain that I'm from Oxford, England but through a mix of random circumstance and poor judgement on my part I have ended up in Houston, Texas where my 'funny' accent and quaint olde worlde ways have become the basis for a currently-in-development Hollywood musical.

For no particular reason.

""Dad, you're right, but let's give Krull a try and we'll discuss it later!"

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Solomon Kane

Peter Jackson's Witchfinder Gen ...
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"If Peter Jackson deemed it a good idea to remake Michael Reeves classic WITCHFINDER GENERAL, the result might look an awful lot like SOLOMON KANE. Based on Robert E Howard's 17th Century Puritan pulp fiction character, SOLOMON KANE begins in media res, with Solomon and his ill-fated ship crew coming face-to-face with the grim reaper himself. This particular reaper, unfortunately, is in the employ of Satan himself and damns Kane's soul for a life of wickedness, greed and throwing knives into peoples faces in a really cool way. A year later Kane, now living in an English monastery, is kicked out when the head monk senses our hero will only bring trouble for the 16th Century peaceniks. On the road Kane hooks up with Pete Postlethwaite and his brood, a family of puritans headed for the coast and a persecutionless life in the New Worlde. Needless to say, the family have 'victims' written all over them in huge, medieval script, and things don't go well. Thematically, the story borrows el ... " [More]

The Devil & Roky Erickson
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You're Gonna Miss Me

The Devil & Roky Erickson
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"Seminal Texas Psyche-Rock band The 13th Floor elevators were an influence on artists as diverse as Janis Joplin, Patti Smith and ZZ Top. If you’ve never heard of them, don’t feel too bad. After heroic doses of various psychotropic substances lead elevator Roky Erickson suffered a nervous breakdown and the band imploded, remaining little more than a cult footnote in the history of psychedelic pop. The Who jamming with The Doors might be a, somewhat unsatisfying, description of the Elevators sound although we don’t really hear enough of their music in You’re Gonna Miss Me – the story of Erickson’s burnout, wilderness years and gradual rehabilitation. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at the height of the bands success Erikson fled to San Francisco and began a devastating heroin binge. Busted for possession on his return to Texas he was declared insane and sent to the infamous Rusk mental hospital. However, this wasn’t exactly the end of Erikso ... " [More]

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No End in Sight

War without end
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"First time writer/director Charles H. Ferguson‘s documentary concerns the post-2003 US occupation of Iraq. It covers the toppling of the Saddam-led Ba’ath government, the rise of a Muslim fundamentalist civil war in the country, and the violent insurgencies against coalition forces. Most specifically No End In Sight tells the story of an ill-prepared American-led occupation that was fueled by incompetence, misinformation and lies.Ferguson’s approach is to utilize talking head interviews with military personal, local journalists, and (in most cases refreshingly frank) occupation coordinators interspersed with newsreel footage of the increasingly chaotic breakdown of Iraqi society, post-Saddam. While this could have made for a dry, uninvolving piece, it is a cleverly structured story with sharp editing that is truly exceptional. By letting the facts speak for themselves, Ferguson and his collaborators have made a compelling indictment of the Bush administration&# ... " [More]

Re: Clean
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Re: 13 Tzameti
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"13 With A Bullet " [More]

Re: Hawaii, Oslo
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"Disconnections " [More]

Re: Campfire
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Campfire

A West Bank Story.
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"Israel, 1981. Recently widowed mother-of-two Rachael (Michaela Eshet)applies for a position on the founding committee of a new settlementon the West Bank. Meanwhile, her eldest daughter has embarked on anill-fated relationship with an army conscript while the younger isbeginning to come to terms with her own sexuality.Given the setting and the above synopsis, one could be forgiven forthinking that American-born Joseph Cedar's Campfire would be a ratherpo-faced, worthy affair. However, any fears in that department arequickly put to rest with the opening narration from the youngerdaughter, Tami (Hani Furstenberg), who assures us that this year shemeans to 'Be happy, no matter what.' It's ironic then that the sweetand appealing Tami gets the roughest deal of the three as the filmprogresses towards the titular campfire.Cedar's cast of characters is uniformly likeable, with strongperformances all around and a fine sense of time and place, hideouseighti ... " [More]

28 Weeks Later

Superior non-zombie (nonbie?) s ...
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"Foreign film makers seem awfully adept at coming up with new ways to bring the apocalypse to the British capital these days. In the course of a few months of each other there was Aussie James McTeigue's silly, but enjoyable, V for Vendetta, Mexican Alfonso Cuarón's majestic Children of Men and Spain's Juan Carlos Fresnadillo with his sequel to Danny Boyle's 2002 pseudo-zombie shocker 28 Days Later. Synopsis: Seven months after the population of mainland Britain was almost totally wiped out by a manmade 'rage virus' the country is slowly being repopulated. A 'green zone' is set up on London's Isle of Dogs where refugees, under the aegis of the US military, are brought back to the country to rebuild their lives. Robert Carlyle's Don is one such returnee. Haunted by the memory of his wife, who he abandoned to save himself and whom he believes is dead, he awaits the return of his children who were holidaying in Spain during the ini ... " [More]

Hawaii, Oslo

Disconnections.
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"Hawaii, Oslo begins with the image through a kaleidoscopes viewfinder, segueing into an aerial shot of the Norwegian capital. It’s a neat, if not particularly original, allegory for the diversity of human lives. A man runs through a downtown street pursued by another on a moped. The runner veers into the road straight into the path of a speeding ambulance. There is a collision witnessed by several onlookers. Over the course of the next two hours, via flashback to the previous day, Hawaii, Oslo presents the stories of those present in this opening scene. There's nothing new in using multiple storylines to reveal the complexity and interconnection of people's lives. Robert Altman adapted unrelated Raymond Carver stories and poems to make Short Cuts, and p. t. Anderson borrowed that film's structure for his own Magnolia. Hawaii, Oslo has been frequently compared to both but this might be a little unfair. If those movies are about the way in which lives are c ... " [More]