2003 Archive

  • Makoto Shinkai’s work has been compared to Miyazaki’s – a very strange comparison that I can’t see having any real basis in Makoto’s films. Both men have individual directing voices, […]

    The Voices Of A Distant Star

    Makoto Shinkai’s work has been compared to Miyazaki’s – a very strange comparison that I can’t see having any real basis in Makoto’s films. Both men have individual directing voices, […]

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  • The tools with which Explosions in the Sky make their sound have been available almost since the beginning of rock & roll. Their first three albums consist of two guitars, […]

    Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

    The tools with which Explosions in the Sky make their sound have been available almost since the beginning of rock & roll. Their first three albums consist of two guitars, […]

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  • After Freddy Kruger monologues about why people stopped believing in him (because you weren’t bringing in the bucks, sweetie), we see a beauty at Crystal Lake, taking her shirt off. […]

    Freddy Vs. Jason

    After Freddy Kruger monologues about why people stopped believing in him (because you weren’t bringing in the bucks, sweetie), we see a beauty at Crystal Lake, taking her shirt off. […]

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  • So I rent The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, version 2003. I watch it with my roommate. He didn’t see the original, but we are stunned. We’re stunned at how bad this […]

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    So I rent The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, version 2003. I watch it with my roommate. He didn’t see the original, but we are stunned. We’re stunned at how bad this […]

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  • Zatoichi is Kitano’s bloodiest and most accessible film. It’s about a blind swordsman who wanders the countryside, performing acts of heroism. Kitano uses stock elements of chambara (the samurai period […]

    Zatoichi

    Zatoichi is Kitano’s bloodiest and most accessible film. It’s about a blind swordsman who wanders the countryside, performing acts of heroism. Kitano uses stock elements of chambara (the samurai period […]

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  • What a horror film tells us is that we’re afraid of the dark for a reason. Primal, irrational, pre- or proto-religious terrors are justified, because they are based on perceived […]

    Darkness Falls

    What a horror film tells us is that we’re afraid of the dark for a reason. Primal, irrational, pre- or proto-religious terrors are justified, because they are based on perceived […]

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  • This is one of the strangest and most delightful tabloid ideas...

    Bubba Ho-Tep

    This is one of the strangest and most delightful tabloid ideas...

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  • Richard Matheson should sue. For years his best idea has been making other people a ton of money, and I Am Legend, one of the top five or six horror […]

    28 Days Later

    Richard Matheson should sue. For years his best idea has been making other people a ton of money, and I Am Legend, one of the top five or six horror […]

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  • #7 Bad art is depressing. So is good art. The art that counts is the one that triggers a response. #4 Q & U look the same. Side-eyed, tall, and […]

    Kill Bill

    #7 Bad art is depressing. So is good art. The art that counts is the one that triggers a response. #4 Q & U look the same. Side-eyed, tall, and […]

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  • This may not be the worst movie I've seen, but it could be...

    DarkWolf

    This may not be the worst movie I've seen, but it could be...

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