Blog Profile / GreenCine
| URL : | http://daily.greencine.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Film | |
| Posts on Regator: | 548 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.5 | |
| Archived Since: | February 12, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Made in the Shade
by Steve Dollar
[Editor's note: due to budget cuts and internal restructuring, Steve's review will likely be my final post for GreenCine Daily. Thank you all for reading during my four-year tenure, and be sure to follow me, Steve, Vadim...Show More Summary
DVD OF THE WEEK: Seven Psychopaths
by Vadim Rizov
It begins with a Shih Tzu. Actor Billy Bickle (Sam Rockwell) isn't landing work, so instead he's taken to snatching canines while their owners' heads are turned, then mock-innocently returning them after a suitably panic-inducing period and collecting a healthy reward. Show More Summary
SUNDANCE 2013: Outro
by Steve Dollar
Another Sundance Film Festival concluded this weekend, and if this year there was no phenomenon as compelling or, well, phenomenal, as Beasts of the Southern Wild, I'd wager that it was a stronger line-up overall: More...Show More Summary
RETRO ACTIVE: Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick was inspired by the large-ensemble sketch comedy Movie 43.]
If ever a movie was made for the small screen, it was Amazon Women on the Moon. A sketch-comedy compilation spearheaded by John Landis and directed by not only him but also Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton and Robert K. Show More Summary
DVD OF THE WEEK: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
by Vadim Rizov
Internationally known for his disdain for quality control, propensity for making three to five features every year in all conceivable genres and bizarre, YouTube ready non-sequitur sequences, Japanese auteur Takashi Miike...Show More Summary
Retro Active: FRIGHTMARE (1974)
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the Jessica Chastain-headlined scary-
mother thriller Mama.]
Psychosis is inherited in Frightmare, as is a hunger for human flesh. Pete Walker's
under-sung 1974 gem (also...Show More Summary
FILM OF THE WEEK: Outside Satan
by Vadim Rizov
Bruno Dumont's sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan) premiered at Cannes in 2011 but only now arrives for a weeklong New York engagement. That's typical lag time for Dumont, whose divisive, unmarketable movies generally enter theaters slowly but surely a year or so after their premieres. Show More Summary
SUNDANCE 2013: Prologue
by Steve Dollar
Off to the land of the ice and snow, where the free midnight booze and the hot tubs flow. I'm talking about Park City, Utah, where the 2013 Sundance Film Festival starts on Thursday. Here are dreams made and shattered,...Show More Summary
RETRO ACTIVE: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
by Nick Schager [This week's "Retro Active" is inspired by Marlon Wayans' Paranormal Activity-spoofing A Haunted House.] Paving the way for 2000's Scary Movie and the attendant spoof-current-cinema fad it ushered in, Don't Be a Menace...Show More Summary
DVD OF THE WEEK: Whores' Glory
by Vadim Rizov
At this moment, Michael Glawogger is cinema's most talented exploitation artist. "Exploitation" doesn't mean taking advantage of subjects who don't understand what he's filming, at least in the usual sense: to make Whores'...Show More Summary
BEST OF 2012: Underrated Supporting Performances
by Steve Dollar
Thursday's the big day: Oscar Day, when the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced. Pundits seem to agree on the obvious picks. What about the actors who are likely to slide under the radar of the voting...Show More Summary
Natural Gus
by Vadim Rizov
A third of the way through director Gus Van Sant's Promised Land, natural gas company representative Steve Butler (Matt Damon) stands in front of a gigantic American flag and tells the residents of McKinley (fictionalShow More Summary
RETRO ACTIVE: Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Quentin Tarantino's slavery-themed revisionist Spaghetti Western Django Unchained.]
Unrelated to Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) save for its title, which was tacked on at the last second for marketing purposes, Django Kill... Show More Summary
FILM OF THE WEEK: Tabu
by Vadim Rizov
Miguel Gomes' third feature Tabu is as different from his first two (as yet, he has no recurring stylistic tics) as it is from any other film this year. What it shares with 2004's severely patience-testing The Face You...Show More Summary
Cruise-in' for a Bruisin'
by Steve Dollar
When Tom Cruise wants to make things interesting for himself, he usually goes in for disfigurement. The cocksure top gun he embodied as a younger man often has yielded to an ugly underbelly in the latter half of his career. Show More Summary
RETRO ACTIVE: Avalanche (1978)
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the based-on-real-life tsunami disaster drama The Impossible.]
A Roger Corman-produced disaster film buried by its own clichéd cheesiness, Avalanche is ludicrous to the point of playing like a parody. Show More Summary
FILM OF THE WEEK: Barbara
by Vadim Rizov
Christian Petzold's last film Dreileben: Beats Being Dead centered on a nurse who takes up with a girl after he's seen her performing fellatio in a forest; sex, surveillance and shrubbery again intersect in Barbara. The...Show More Summary
BEST OF 2012: The Underdogs
by Steve Dollar
As a critic, each week brings a new stack of screeners, a marathon of film festival screenings or advance studio previews. It adds up and like the sorcerer's apprentice, you can find yourself quickly overwhelmed. So much goes by the wayside: ignored, misplaced, forgotten, neglected, put off for another day that never comes. Show More Summary
RETRO ACTIVE: Krull (1983)
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" is inspired by the heroic fantasy questing of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.]
For those who thought that Star Wars was awesome but could have used more elements from Greek mythology, the legend...Show More Summary
FILM OF THE WEEK: Consuming Spirits
by Vadim Rizov
The 14 years of labor put into Chris Sullivan's animated feature debut Consuming Spirits are always visible. It's the kind of doggedly personal, adult-oriented labor of love rarely seen, aside from efforts from higher-profile names like Jan Svankmajer or Don Hertzfeldt. Show More Summary