Bask in the Loveliness of... TWO LOVELY LADIES

Nora Zehtner who appeared in the movie Brick as well as playing Eden on Heroes Marsha Thomason, who was a regular on Las Vegas, but also played Naomie on Lost.

Trailer Trash

A trailer to the wonderful 70s classic "Switchblade Sisters"

Short bursts of film revieweness

Quick short reviews, to catch up on the classics and "classics" of cinema I have seen recently...

Brick, directed by Rian Johnson is a great film-noir story set in a high school starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school detective investigating his ex-girlfriend Emilie de Ravin. I really enjoyed how it turned the genre convention on it's head. Gordon-Levitt's performance is great and Nora Zehetener (Eden in Heroes) is alluring as the femme fatale of the story.

A movie that I saw fairly recently that was bad with no redeemable features was Black Xmas - a remake of the 1974 Bob Clark movie - starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Andrea Martin. Everything about this movie was so predictable. Just plain terrible!

Another bad film I saw recently (I sure can pick um) was the Paul W.S. Anderson "classic" Alien vs Predator, which I'd pretty much avoided because of the fact it was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, but hey curosity killed the cat. The film pisses on the memory of two film franchises and as no exciting moments. PLEASE AVOID!!!

Better then Black Xmas and Alien vs Predator combined was the classic 80s actioner No Retreat, No Surrender 2, that is dumb, but it's dumb in the best possible way with glorified violence that only exists in 80s movies and cheesy one-liners, it genuienly is worth checking out if your a fan of those no consequences action movies of the 80s. Cythina Rothrock is in it too - she ruled in the 80s -

Switchblade Sisters, a 1970s film from Jack Hill (who Quentin Tarantino champions) was suprisingly - amazingly marvellous - it's about a girl gang (suprisingly not called Switchblade Sisters) called the Jezebels, and it as everything a 70s exploitation movie should - Lesbian prison wardens, knife fights, gratious nudity and gratious violence. Highly recommended.

Another great film from Jack Hill is the Blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown, which was brilliant (but just falls somewhat short of the brilliance of Coffy), starring Blaxploitation queen Pam Grier, it is in a lot of ways just a rehash of Coffy, but it hooks you and as a cool soundtrack, the cast also includes Antonio Fargas (as her deadbeat brother) and the legendary Sid Haig (as a drug peddeling pilot). Recommended.

Return to Oz

So call Me Mr. Unreliable, it's been a few months since I last did a proper post here at blogger, tried going back to Livejournal but that just annoyst the hell out of me. So I'm coming back here, knowing me probably only for a couple of weeks or months (or even days)