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Thirst
on Oct 30, 2009 in Blogroll Film List 2009 Films horror korean movies kim ok-bin park vampire There is a scene in Act 2 of Bach’s St Matthew Passion where Peter is describing his betrayal of Jesus (the “before the cock crows, you will have denied me three times” story). This culminates in the aria Erbarme dich, mein Gott (Ha...
Zombieland
on Oct 13, 2009 in Blogroll Film List 2009 Films horror movies breslin eisenberg harrelson Zombieland is fucking huge. All event movies would like to be this big; it has done fabulous business and continues to do so, and it seems to be everywhere. Twitter, for instance, waxes in and out of trending it (”zombieland was awesome you wil...
Creation
on Oct 5, 2009 in Blogroll Film List 2009 Films movies Oh, do I have to declare where I stand before we can start? OK. I suppose this will become more and more common. Right; I’m one of those liberal, rational types, who side with the scientifically-minded evolutionists. Is that what you wanted? So...
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
on Sep 29, 2009 in Blogroll Film List 2009 Films movies animation cloudy with a chance of meatballs lynchian The least appealing title in cinemas for a while, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs explodes all over our screens in a welter of primary colours and a fair amount of brouhaha. We all expect the better animations to throw in a few laughs for the grown...
Pontypool
on Sep 28, 2009 in Blogroll Film List 2009 Films horror movies pontypool stephen mchattie There’s a grand tradition of the movies doing the radio. That is to say, of using the radio to provide a different slant on action that might otherwise be obvious or hackneyed. Radio is blind, it relies on the spoken word rather than the visual...
Gamer
on Sep 24, 2009 in Blogroll Film List 2009 Films movies crap gamer plagiarising twaddle shit It was inevitable, I guess. A bit like the infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing the complete works of Shakespeare (in between furious bouts of wanking, presumably), I suppose that eventually we had to...