What, no love for EXPERIMENT IN TERROR? It's atypical Edwards, but it's damn solid all the same.

GODDAMN! ABOUT TIME!
Saw this in a film class in college with the prof prefacing the screening by saying it's the film that changed his cinematic life. Having been a fan of IF…. since the age of 15, I was equally impressed with the followup. I'm so happy this is on DVD now. Now I can buy the DVD and the Alan Price…

Berlin does not believe in numb rear ends
"When filmmakers subject audiences to movies of extreme length, they usually either have a complicated story to tell, or an experience they want the audience to endure. For Fassbinder and Berlin Alexanderplatz, it's most definitely the latter."

Ah, damn. My #6 for the year right now is "The Wayward Cloud." I'll just hafta watch it again and see it it gets better then, won't I?

I read an article about this in the Daily News
In it, Mike Newell essentially admits that everything that works in the book is of a literary quality, and to make the film everything literary had to be stripped out. I'm left wondering why the fuck they even bothered, given that they realized that the best qualities of…

Surprising?
I'm not at all surprised by 'Black Bubblegum.' (We all heard 'Unretrofied,' right?) That said, nice to know these guys can continue to rip shit up even minus Pennie. I'll be buying this post haste.

I'm amazed…
…that Monsieur Rabin made it all the way through the article without mentioning the crazy awesomeness of the gun phone. The movie's full of unhinged moments, but Thomas Jane holding a handgun to his ear and speaking into it breaks the hinges off the door, wraps them in bubble wrap and mails them to Abu…

Ebert's words:

I can't be the only one to have noticed that the passages above on the rape scene and burning-cabin scene are taken, almost verbatim, from Roger Ebert's review of "Heaven's Gate."

Well, fuck.
There goes my week. Next, someone will tell me that Christmas is cancelled. I'm gonna go listen to "Giant Swan" until I feel better.

Everyone's so down on Hopkins.
Why? Seems to me he and Oldman are the only ones to get into the crazed, too-big-isn't-big-enough spirit on the film. Coppola pushes this thing over the top, then he keeps pushing until he reaches a realm where there is no top, no bottom, no middle or sides — just head-splitting,…

The nicest thing I can say about "Delilah"…
…is that it's merely boring and overplayed. The Plain White Ts' first single, "Hate (I Really Don't Like You)" was actively retarded. I mean, "Hate is a strong word / But I really really really don't like you"? Are these guys fucking kindergarteners or something?

To all those…
…who are morally disgusted, sight unseen, by "Stuck": Judging from the Q & A — as well as, you know, the film itself — Stuart Gordon was pretty fucking morally disgusted too. Just because there's humor doesn't make it light fizzy slapstick.

Also…
Fuck, I've got a ticket to "M" later in the week. Between you and Mike D'Angelo, I'm wondering if I shouldn't just try to sell/give away/burn that ticket.

But no, that's the problem
Romero seemed to consciously be playing to the cheap seats with "Diary." Yes, it's more overtly comedic… and that's a GOOD thing? As Mike D. admits, flat-out comedy is not Romero's forte (gallows humor, maybe), and IMO the film falls flat every time it tries to be cute or knowing, which is…

Also…
No matter what anyone says, "Diary of the Dead" does not exist.

Yes! Yes! Yes!
This is, basically, what I've been saying word for word for the last six years. This freakin' thing is astonishing, and I love it with all of my black little heart.

I… was not expecting that
Then again, maybe I was — "Ass Cobra" and "Apocalypse Dudes" were awesome as fuck, but their 'hey, we aren't broken up after all!' album "Scandanavian Leather" was merely okay. If this review proves correct, how sad…

Oh, the pain…
I will rent these, I will watch these, I will hate and despise them. Yet I'll keep trying and keep renting turds like this because I am compelled — compelled! — to watch every piece of '60s and '70s sleazeball junk that I can. Every now and then, I stumble across a "Thriller: A Cruel Picture" or a "Nude…

I made the mistake…
of ignoring the terrible reviews and renting David DeFalco's "Last House" ripoff "Chaos." If there's any film that makes you question the usefulness of art and life, it's that hateful, pointless piece of shite.