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Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As surely everyone but the dullest bulb knows by now, the 1% of the richest people in the world have bought the world’s governments and use them to further solidify their power and wealth.
Part of the strategy of the wealthy is to influence education so […]
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I don’t why, but I got to thinking about the action scenes that have really floored me. If I missed any, add them in the comment section. Here they are in no particular order:
The Wild Bunch - The Railroad Detective’s Ambush
This whole sequence is just masterful. The way director Sam Peckinpah uses slow motion, the […]
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Lately, I’ve seen an lot of really terrible films.
These days, with all the fan sites out there, it is possible to see many, many obscure genre releases from bygone years from Italian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, and Japanese cinema.
Back when I first became a fan of these film scenes, we didn’t have this kind of […]
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My observation has been that there is a funhouse mirror relationship to reality in films.
For example, when viewing American films, people native to Asian cultures often notice that people often get up from bed and go to work without taking a shower, which would almost never happen in their culture. They think that all Americans […]
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Hello, faithful readers.
You might have noticed a funny looking red, blue, green and yellow box on my posts, right above the icons/movie poster that usually links to Amazon.com (except when Amazon.com doesn’t carry the movie — shame on them).
Well, this is the latest doodad from Google. Here’s the way it works. +1 is shorthand […]
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Just read an article called File-Sharing and Copyright by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. Interesting.
While the article seems biased in favor of file sharing, it stops short of claiming that file sharing doesn’t have an impact on content creation.
I quote:
As our survey indicates, the empirical evidence on sales displacement is mixed.
While some studies find evidence […]
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I just saw an indisputably good movie, The Great Silence AKA Il Grande Silenzio, but for all I know, it could well have been truly great. Why the uncertainty? Because the only version I could get hold of was dubbed.
The Great Silence is a spaghetti western, so obviously it was originally in Italian.
There are many […]
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I’ve got to say, I haven’t been too impressed by the participation of this blog’s readers.
Whatever.
But, for those readers who happen to really love modern Korean flicks and Golden Age of Hong Kong movies, I might be in the position to do you a solid, but only for those of you who are worthy.
Now, how […]
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Recently, I read an entry on Geoff Boucher’s blog, Hero Complex, about the spate of “out of body” movies coming out, like Surrogates, Gamer and Avatar. Boucher says that the reason these movies are all coming out at roughly the same time is a reflection of society’s anxiety about “…the slippery nature of humanity in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Action/Suspense
Director: John Dahl
Year: 1998
Rating:
UNDER THE RADAR
Life isn’t fair. Despite being a tremendously accomplished film noir, Unforgettable is largely forgotten today. What should have been a triumph for director John Dahl and star Ray Liotta was instead a box office disaster, contributing to the decline of both men’s careers. My guess is […]
