Not sure teen girls are in the market for direct to dvd stuff.

It's not exactly scary but people were gasping every now and then when something especially weird/unexpected happened.

I've only seen Uncle Boonmee but I'd say the drug description is pretty accurate - I'd never walked out of a film before and been literally shaking. It's just an extraordinary combination of gorgeous photography (the way the forest looks - all inky blacks and greens - is stunning), casual fantasy and meditative…

The Temptation of St Tony
"The Temptation of St Tony" is supposed to be a pretty wacky comedy. From Guy Lodge's review: "hallucinations of undressing policemen, severed hands, violent gimp-run cabaret nights and Cannibalism on Ice". Sounds pretty good to me.

Social Commentary
I really think the social commentary angle has been largely overstated. It really does nothing more than meking literal the idea of social classes preying on those below them. Making the whole flesh eating business a ritual means that whatever social processes or individual traits lie behind the kind…

A quick check on wikipedia suggests that she wrote half of her first album alone (including the god-awful yet ubiquitous Love Story) and the entirety of her second.

Although grouping Israeli and Chinese acts under Oriental seems a bit… Orientalist.

Maushart
She writes a column in an Australian newspaper which has pretty much all the strengths and weaknesses outlined in the review. Snappy, well researched and occasionally falling back on a set of overused phrases/slang. With that in mind I'd like to ask how many times she writes, "but enough about my…

Hell and Purgatory
Tom Tykwer made Kieslowski and Piesiewicz's (Three Colours) final script, called "Heaven", into a pretty stunning film but it was originally intended to be part of a thematic trilogy. I'd really like to know how their idea of what Heaven meant would have been complicated by their ideas of Hell and…

I will argue until the day I die that Piano Man is a good album. Granted his later career has a whole bunch of mawkish shit but "Captain Jack", "Ain't no Crime" et cet are good songs.

(Also not fucked. up. a la Doom Generation.)

But it is cheerfully, gloriously, hilariously stupid!!!

Kaboom
Really have to disagree with your review of this one. Granted the only Araki I'd seen before this one was Mysterious Skin. But it seemed less a repetitive fuckfest and more a glorious send-up of over complicated conspiracy thrillers (with lots of sex). Sure it's a feather-weight trifle but it's also a pretty…

Anyone who thinks that there is one correct answer to the question of "what is the greatest movie ever" is a complete dick who can't understand that different people value different things or refuses to accept that different values can be as legitimate as their own. Anyone who can supply only one answer to that…

It is a most excellent service whereby you can stream films for cheap. They also have an equally excellent blog called the Mubi Notebook which is what Vishnevetsky writes for.

Mad Bastards
Shame to hear it's merely okay - it was probably the best hope for a really good Australian movie this year. Oranges and Sunshine looks hopelessly didactic and Griff the Invisible is yet another superhero movie.

Eh, that's not really a one man cult. But you don't live in Australia?

Gnomeo and Juliet is also a real thing (*shudders*).

Inception is an excellent film and an awful lot of fun but it's all about the plot mechanics - once you know how the heist plays out a lot of the thrill is gone. Ultimately the central Caprio/Cotillard relationship boils down to solipsistic mind games.

T-Pain
"Yet despite the lascivious content, the song comes off incongruously sweet, even tender. "