Horror/mystery, The Big Bad is a nightmarishly surreal reworking of Little Red Riding Hood and one that packs a lot into its script. I liked it and can see myself pulling out the DVD again in the future.
If you want more, you can read my full thoughts over on Pulpmovies.
Another Pulpmovies update, this time for Shed which is an eight minute horror film. The film sails dangerously close to being torture porn, but saves itself by providing a backstory that pushes you to re-evaluate the characters, and your own assumptions.
Shed is quite painful to watch on occasion but it is also a very powerful film that seeks (successfully) to be a thought provoking, tense short film with horrific ethical and moral overtones.
You can read the full review of the film over here.
I watched Chris Witherspoon’s Rage at the weekend and a review for this horror/thriller is now up at Pulpmovies. To say I liked this film would be an understatement – it really is utterly superb.
Rage is tense, disturbing, frightening and surprisingly thoughtful. And you can read my full thoughts on this film here.
I have, on occasion, found myself disagreeing with others over whether cinema audiences are becoming more stupid. This results from widely different interpretations of and agreed observation. The point on which we all agree is that blockbusters are, generally speaking, becoming bigger, brasher, louder and emptier.
Some people see this and claim that, because of whatever technology or media they don’t like, attentions spans are getting shorter and modern audiences are incapable of following a 90 minute narrative unless it is frequently punctuated with really big explosions.
Although I would accept that there is a trend towards dumbness among blockbusters, the faulty lies with the studios rather than the audiences. The shorter version of this argument is that, as budgets rise, the studios putting up the money become increasingly conservative because they are less and less able to afford to frighten any part of the audience. Consequently, producers and accountants try (vainly) to quantify what works and end up insisting on the inclusion of really big explosions.
The end point of this line of reasoning, of course, is that studios should stop making ever more generic remakes of foreign and older films and start making films that are actually worth seeing.
So I am slightly saddened to have to acknowledge (via) that there really are some people who don’t deserve to be allowed into cinemas.
And, for the last word on SOPA, here’s a copyright infringing YouTube video that I found via Nina Paley.
Open Culture (via) has three films and a TV programme made by Christopher Sykes about the physicist Richard Feynman. There is a lot of video here and I haven’t had a chance to watch much of it yet, but I certainly intend on doing so as soon as I am able.
The first one, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is embedded below. You can find the other three on the Open Culture site.
Just before Christmas, I watched Things I Don’t Understand, an independent drama from New York writer/director, David Spaltro.
I was intending to post a review on Pulpmovies before Christmas. And then I was intending to post the review on 1st January. Life just keeps on intruding.
But the review is now up, here, and I am intending to ensure that the next one isn’t quite so badly delayed.
Do you want to know more about Belgium?
And yes, the country’s political structure really is as bonkers as that.
Thanks to @gdk for the link.
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