WATCH NOW Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story, The Drover’s Wife, tells the tale of a woman dwelling in a rustic rural settler’s cabin in Australia outback during the 19th Century. The woman’s spouse is away for months at a time and when a snake approaches her cabin, she makes sure to protect her children. Historically, […]
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WATCH NOW The movie begins with a documentary-style scene where a survivor with severe scars recounts an attack done to her by a clown called Art. The survivor states that Art was definitely dead, but after a sequence where a character loses their eyes, we see Art on the street with a garbage bag. We
WATCH NOW Most films like Dead Man’s Hand are really straight forward in explaining why they are as bad as they are, but on this one, it is perplexing a great deal. Sure, there are 18 producers, continuity problems, choppy editing, poor lighting, and amateurish regional community theater performances but on both sides of the
WATCH NOW Kings of the Sun is recognizable by its lack of a single “white man” character. No European gentry with their coats and daggers are invading, and no one is linguistically conquering. But hold a minute, you say. What about Apocalypto (minus the conclusion)? Perhaps, but Kings of the Sun takes it to the
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WATCH NOW In what would become his last role as the acclaimed detective Charlie Chan, Sidney Toler shares the screen with his former colleagues Victor Sen Yung, who played Number Two Son, and Mantan Moreland, who played Birmingham Brown. In this picture, we see Chan traveling with two less-than-competent detectives on a bus to San
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WATCH NOW If the surreal dreamscapes that propelled ‘Inception’ had taken place in the deep, dark, and dubious recesses of a deeply disturbed adolescent girl’s mind, it would look a lot like Anna. It is messier than a teenager’s bedroom while also overstuffed with unnecessary aspects that burden the plot. This psychological thriller is about
WATCH NOW Witless as it may seem, “The Little Vampire” is a charming yet attractive film which tells a story of a child from San Diego moving to Scotland with his family where he encounters a household of vampires. This movie is derived from a best selling children’s novel by German writer Angela Sommer Boden
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WATCH NOW During the 1950s, actor Tom Laughlin and screenwriter Delores Taylor created a movie hero, that the industry has never seen before. The hero was a roughened veteran who had his own code of living. He used his skills to defend progressive young people from the corrupt system. However, the wholesome 1950s did not
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WATCH NOW I did not know English very well, so I was extremely pleased to find “22 Bullets,” starring my beloved Jean Reno, the French macaron of modern cinema. What a treat it was to hear him speak in French and English with such an elegant French accent! Let alone how lovely it was to
WATCH NOW Not long ago, one could look at a picture like sum of all fears with the same innocence as we look back on it today, as a “thriller.” Now, however, it works not as a thriller but as a confirmer, which confirms that indeed we are headed for disaster. The picture’s premise is
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