Assuming these to be the wonderful dancers by the otherwise grades Mr Michael motion this really is no good at all because you want the what does it mean the dancing is stupid and the people who performed and do not acted all the only thing that matters is the music but the music is in its own being not so great but a bit crazy in the wrong words so now what else left us but to think that what we are seeing is not the way that it should be for performance in a live show of the series we love to watch called alive from off centre and then the only thing we can conclude that it's really not that great and that is the whole point of this review here.
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The Specials
(2019)
An Islamic approach on how to get closer to the mentally lesser people
25 October 2022
This movie does not know where it should end as it continues and it keeps on going on even though the end go has way past beyond the station and it's really too much because you are not interested in all this political pamphlets that the movie makers are trying to force open their viewers without them giving permission for it or even asking for it it's a whole sad consequence of events that naturally a movie with a title like this one you definitely must agree that it simply has to have some left wing meaning and that is the setting about because otherwise a movie could really be great if they would just not Force the meaning of the movie of the audience. Inshallah.
Sharasôju
(2003)
For dreams to come true
24 October 2022
Certain people are interesting. Most of these people have opportunities to portray their talents in the best way they can: in other words, most fascinating people are found in Hollywood. Asia does not have the benefits of America, but still now and then there appear some gold busters that know just how to capture that fragrant of our imagination quite well. This is such a case. Everything goes extremely slow as if Andy Warhol suddenly got reborn as a Chinaman, but that's exactly the art and magic of the movie. It fascinates but only at the ending one might fall asleep by the rhythm having gotten hold of them; but for the rest, wonderful movie.
The Other Side
(IV) (2012)
Humbug, A total disaster
24 October 2022
What happens to half-rate actors once they get too old to still make appearances in blockbuster Hollywood movies?? Indeed: they make even smaller appearances in foreign short movies. That's exactly the case with "The Other Side" which was filmed way too dark, too serious and too short. Look out: it could have been interesting, I'm not saying it would have been a fiasco any way the boat shuffled, but I'm just stating that nothing on this movie work because the end result turns out to be the result of what would happen if a toddler would pick up a VCR-recorder and decide to make a movie. It's doesn't make sense and the ending is even worse than the previous nitwittery. Let's hope the world won't have to watch a sequel or else we'd definitely not be present in any theatre having the gal to play such worthless no-good of a mini-film which this title was supposed to be. Yuck...
People of the World, Unite!
24 October 2022
Throughout history many political pamphlets have been written by people like Che Guevara and Mao Zedong and then there have been those kind of movies which encourage people to rebel against their governments such as those of the late genius Jean-Luc Godard and the still present Michael Haneke. This is such a movie which upsets the viewer so much it wants to rebel against the powers that be, get together and destroy the gathering forces of the so-called 'evil' West. Be that as it may, the right public for such films are harder to find nowadays for everyone is already a slave to propaganda, be it it Eastern or in the West. Whether to like or dislike the movie depends on your own personal opinion about politics, but it is however one great effort to unite and better the world, a film like this one here. Bravo.
Gingakei
(1967)
A failed attempt to refer to other classics
24 October 2022
A man is searching for meaning in a world he doesn't recognize or understand: it might be a description of Federico Fellini's Otto e Mezzo or Andrey Tarkovsky's Solyaris, but it is actually the plot of Masao Adachi's Gingakei (also knows as "Galaxy"). Unfortunately, there were the other movies were fascinating, this one is not. David Lynch's Inland Empire would do better some 45 year later, like, with Laura Dern speaking English instead of the Japanese cast of this experimental movie which searches for interpretation but is hard to have an opinion about -since everything we see is some sort of metaphor in the way Luis Bunuel did with Un Chien Andalou-.
Flashback.FM
24 October 2022
It is sad to see how great promising developments can turn so sour by a twist in a screenwriter's daily schedule. Too many disappointments occur in this episode, from revealing who the leather man is to that couple of gay queers deciding to play drama; also, those constant flashbacks are useless and very annoying for we've seen it all before and it makes us fall asleep. And still, it's the thrill of watching, the fascinating development of those characters that keeps us going along with it as if everything is fine. The perfect nonsense to overeat on if you're feeling bad about something in your everyday life.
Crazy Murder
(2014)
Hobo
23 October 2022
Homeless people forming a danger to society... Where have we heard that before?? Perhaps in The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer, or in Hobo with a Shotgun with... was it also Rutger Hauer?? Anyway, here no Rutger Hauer but a simple nobody fitting his role as no-good trash of the streets very well. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the movie he's playing in, as the story itself is so water thin that there is nothing more occurring than a deranged psycho killing some people randomly... If this is your thin, fine; if it is not, welcome to the South side of Chicago. Really, this movie can and should be skipped.
Man in the Dark
(1953)
The Female Hitchhiker from Northwest
23 October 2022
Clearly the movie was mirrored after Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Ida Lupino's The Hitchhiker. Did it succeed in doing so and yet becoming even better than them? That's doubtful; still it managed to become a nice work of art on its own. The actors in it are not first-rate but fine. Edmond O'Brien never réally broke through as a major superstar and though that might be regrettable to some, it's in general the story that makes the noir and also here it's just a rehab from all which came before. There's a small chance I will one day see this again.
Bug
(1975)
Bugs
22 October 2022
When we talk about bug, we talk about little bugs. These bugs are cute and most often than not sleep with you in bed and/or your pyjamas without you being aware of this fact. Here, however, they are a bit more big. The bugs are still cute, though. Exactly what they come to do in this picture I cannot say or I would be giving too much away; however, I can tell you that there's a certain professor who might have some other points of view on the subject... To find out what these are, you have to watch this picture!! It's worth it if you don't mind that at the end it feels like it's been an intrioduction of 100 minutes instead of a real film -only downside of the film, really-.
The Mysterious Tate
22 October 2022
Recently a whole lot of developments are starting to make American Horror Story more interesting. Also new questions have arisen. Persons you that would stick around forever and no more and old characters have new question marks. New individuals have given a show which was very normal a feeling of speciality. This episode might give all the answers you've been waiting for. Especially considering Tate. Who is he what does he want where does he come from. These are the things that have been answered in this episode and definitely you like to see it because it's worth making the other characters haha.
The Road to Bresson
(1984)
Boring documentary
21 October 2022
This movie is just very boring. The Dutch know their ways of speaking to make any film uninteresting and that is sad for the French part of the crew definitely do their best to make the information they share about their favourite director to sound most interesting; it's thereby very regrettable they've chosen such a boring voice to do the narrating part in it all -as no-one really cares to see a full length-feature in a nagging tone: because of this the documentary fails as being fascinating, whereas it might be argued though that it portrayed the style of Bresson very well in that same sort of bore.
The ABCs of Death
(2012)
Too much, to fall asleep on
21 October 2022
A bunch of short movies, yawn. Some of these are really good; some of these are really bad. It's just too much nonsense and because of this overload of things you didn't ask for at the beginning it is hard to appreciate the glory when it appears. Imagine the summum of pleasure at the beginning of sex instead of at the ending: it doesn't make sense. Why would you still want to watch the other less good parts?? At least with one director you know you are watching a certain name: here you watch just a bunch of lesser known artists from the Spanish parts of the world. Pretty much yucky and not interesting. Amazing if you don't fall asleep halfway the whole mass.
A Hole in My Heart
(2004)
Clickbait where Mick Jagger and Liz Truss get together
20 October 2022
It's a promise. Clickbait. All movie long you're just waiting for something to happen. At least evil people do evil, but these ones are actually doing nothing at all, as if stuck in a void filled with assumption and tension for a war that is never to come: next to some loud music and naked girls, there is nothing but anticipation for a non-satisfaction. Like the Rolling Stones, because Mick Jagger also has become pretty old. It just doesn't come. You can wait for it or spend a beautiful evening doing something else. This movie is better than your random scary movie but never reaches the level of Saw; rather, it's like Liz Truss: it promises, it promises, yet when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
Enfant Terrible
(2020)
NOt attractive
20 October 2022
Rainer Werner Fassbinder used to be very important to me in growing up. Discovering a barely known name making an official movie about his life and all the ones that went along with him was simply asking for disaster. Behold the result: way over the top acting, as if Larry Hagman had a bad day at the set of the takes on Dallas, and it just keeps on growing worse. The picture soils my fond memories of Gunter Lamprecht and Hanna Schygulla, letting them be performed by outside resemblances but just nothing more; bah. It's not a good movie and it most likely will not get any better in the future. There was only one Fassbinder-genius and he is no more.
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
(2007)
Bad Attempt to fascinate a modern day public for a tv channel documentary
19 October 2022
One might argue what's the point of making a documentary about a pop icon if you cannot succeed in making the documentary an sich interesting enough without constantly reading passages of the works of the main subject whose life you happen to be reviewing in your scientific film as it were, as if the name itself couldn't carry enough baggage to entertain the public of this flick, possibly at home or with a bit of luck one day in an alternative cinema, possibly in New York or wherever there still seem to be some alternative cinemas for independent filmmakers. The life of Kathy Acker could have been put into image on a very intruiging way, on the same manner they did with Edie Sedgwick in those Warhol-biopics with the ex of Heath Ledger in the main role if I'm not mistaken: here, however, no such luck. This is the real thing, and even though the dark side of the nightlife of New York City offers enough surreal focus to intrigue a whole audience above 18, still this director here -a woman, but who is she??- just throws her boot to it, as if having been forced by the television studio to make an 'attractive' picture out of the item requested by the producers of the channel -duh-. Bad idea, for sure. It bores, the life of --ores; but it might have been put way differently and sublimely better than this.
Tino
(1985)
Grec Rising
19 October 2022
References to Kenneth Anger and Derek Jarman abound in this short fantasy drama by child genius Lionel Soukaz about an Arab who gets involved in this sort of threesome in Greece. It's as interesting as it is shocking and nicely put in camera images that know how to fascinate, quite different from the other works of Lionel Soukaz which rather disgust in repulse than attract by the vivid use if colors inside of them. Homosexuality is, as always in his art, very present here, but a bit less than usual and naturally this is for the better in the end product of his creation. Putting music on the right places like a true Coppola, Soukaz proves himself once again true to his reputation. A filmic gem to be seen over and over again, this Toni. Bravo.
Berdella
(2009)
The Monks from Phantasmagoria are out to get you for some reason undisclosed
18 October 2022
Berdella may be based on actual facts, but it takes way too long to come to them -those facts that matter, those things which form the basis of watching any movie that is even in the slightest degree good enough to fascinate even the lowest of members in the audience: no, here there is nothing that can convey us as viewers who expect violence and murder, not a remake of the latest Jack Nicholson going mad again-picture by Warner Bros or MGM or whatever (if these both still nowadays in these diabolical Sony-takeovers). The story is henceforward not interesting, predictable and the acting is bad; for some reason the soundtrack is filled with this choir of monks which fitted well on the background of successful early computer games like Phantasmagoria and The 7th Guest, but not here, oh no: it's just not in its place for no reason whatsoever. In total, this movie is so bad on so many ways that it simply fails to keep the intereest of the viewers present long enough to reach the point where things go out of line -which, again, is the whole reason why anyone would be watching this sort of serial killer biopic to begin with-.
Maman que man
(1982)
Another film to fall asleep with
18 October 2022
Many movies are bad but few have been directed so utterly without life spirit as Maman que Man by the once promising great wonderchild Lionel Soukaz. The music, the images, the storyline, the acting... It all plots together to make its viewer fall asleep. Matters as desire, passion, forbidden love and disease pass each other on such an incredibly dull pace that you really don't know whether you should be watching the new adventures of Batman instead or simply turn around in bed (or your seat -poor you, a bed would really benefit you here-) and -continue to- fall asleep. What did Soukaz try to do with this?? Imitate Kenneth Anger perhaps?? Unfortunately it is not classic Hollywood enough to fascinate and yet not experimental and avant-garde enough to keep the attention glued on to the screen. How regrettable. Next!!
Standing Woman
(2021)
Major Philosophical Achievement
18 October 2022
This work is a sign of pure genius. I'd call it science fiction more than horror, for the idea of trees and people together is closer to reality than fiction. What are trees, really: what do we know about them?? It is purely fascinating what we get to see. Hats off to the writer of this piece of art. The story is so imaginative that one just cannot get enough of the warm autumn colours of the trees in the movie... Not to give anything away, of course; but please watch till the ending. It is one big element of philosophy, near the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche, yes even a bit of Plato here and there. See it to believe it.
It's Not Custard
(2018)
Marvellous, my lady
18 October 2022
As one could no doubt figure out by one's self in these awful times in which we are living with the threat of nuclear war lying in illusion behind our shoulders waiting for some more attention of the media so it can get more popular by the attention it gets, likewise it could be stated that the bullies of us all, as in the poor victim in this marvellous short, will sooner or later all get what is coming for them, and not a single tear shall be shed for them as the world will be too busy with their own 'custard' (nicely used as an original metaphor in this picture)... Great performances, short as they might be.
At Dawn They Sleep
(2000)
So bad it's good
18 October 2022
This is a very good movie to see if you want to fall asleep, because it makes no sense at all storywise, the soundtrack isn't much and the camera movements seem to have made from the backdoor of your grandmother's toilet. The montage isn't much better, as it goes constantly out of image like they didn't have time, money or want (or talent) to shoot certain scenes -if not all of them- over again. The total movie is so bad it should be seen as a way of relaxation like some sort of wellness center to close your eyes, fall asleep and wake up feeling all better; but this is not why we go to the movies... or is it??!
Wet Willy
(2020)
Muslims about Wet Willy
17 October 2022
There is a great lesson in this. All bullies on the world deserve what is coming. Their victims shall rise up and defend myself. Can't you hear it's time?! Seems the ear-image to be saying, almost as a metaphor for lower norms. The actors in it also perform marvelously, and the special effects well they are great. Next to all the joy and laurels this movie might bring it also seems to be a herald for the coming end of times, shouting out in big letters to it's audience that they should repent their sinful ways of living and join Islam today, as the movie director definitely seemed to be out to put in the message of his film. Allahu Akbar! There is no god but Allah!!
Race d'Ep
(1979)
Multiple director-personalities in the gay counterculture of the sixties
17 October 2022
This movie differed very much from the other movies made by the great filmmaker Lionel Soukaz in that it seemed to be made by two totally different person's at once: as this movie was made in four parts for some crazy reason, the first and the third part were fascinating whereas the second and the fourth seem to be coming from someone more deranged of mind, more childlike. It makes the viewer wonder if this was really what the director wanted to say with his movie; that, perhaps, he had multiple personalities in his head telling him what to do. Definitely the history of the gay culture is interesting as is the whole chapter about the gay counterculture of the sixties, but those other two parts, really: what were they all about??? And what was Mister Soukaz thinking?! The answer, as with all his movies, is to be found within the self of the viewer at hand.
Girlfriend from Hell
(1989)
avoid if you can
17 October 2022
It's a good question why anybody would even care to start thinking of ever being willing to see something as remotely dope as a title belonging to any piece of trash art such as the medium of movies called 'girlfriend from hell' without wanting to be focused on the proof of the opposite of the evidence of your intelligence given by the choice of availability showing your true character in your preferences certainly and then what can one say if the movie turns out to bhave a nice beat on the music with one of those cool dudes from David Lynch's Twin Peaks coming here to debase himself not really in a bad role but in a negative performance thereof by which we can conclude that it's the fault of the director certainly as anybody could blame the poor guy's position on the chair... Would have been better with Linda Blair as the girlfriend from hell, but apparently she was too busy doing thing with her own crucifix. A film to be seen by the youngsters only and even in that case there are way better ones also more silly than this particular one here: in big letters, avoid if you can.
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