All right, I am abandoning any pretense of being an impartial reviewer. Yee Haw! Now I love — with all the passion of the five-year old me that still burns in my heart — movies with spaceships, and aliens and large model cities which get blown up. Throw in a lot of energetic practical effects […]
Read more "Psychon Invaders (2006)"Once in a while a film comes along which reminds us that science fiction doesn’t need to be stuck in the same old all too familiar mold, but can, with a bit of imagination, give us something surprising and different. As unlikely as that may sound. Freaky Faron definitely falls in this category. After five […]
Read more "Freaky Faron (2006)"What an odd little film. It’s rather hard to sum up, although Interkosmos looks at first glance like a documentary on a Soviet era space mission. A mission which intended to set up permanent settlements not on the moon, but on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. But, of course, it isn’t a real documentary, […]
Read more "Interkosmos (2006)"I’ll admit it. I love a minimal film which is trying to get as much mileage out of its tiny budget as possible. Particularly when it’s a lovingly made French horror film about a mysterious creature. Resonnances is one of those films I’ve been trying to find for a very long time but which has […]
Read more "Resonnances (2006)"What an absolutely gorgeous film! It’s hard to believe that it came out in 2006. Computer animation — particularly of human beings — still looked quite primitive back then, but the director, Christian Volckman, had a radical new idea for how to use it. Instead of the standard more-or-less realistic 3-D shading everyone else was […]
Read more "Renaissance (2006)"I’ll confess it. I like Frank Sudol’s weird little animated films a lot more than I should. I first encountered him in the anthology film, Monsterland (2016), to which he contributed a funny but gory animated short which went on a little too long. I then caught his feature film, Shock Invasion (2010), a gleefully black […]
Read more "City of Rott (2006)"I’ll admit it. I’m definitely in the minority on this one. But, yes, I liked Cool Air. Although it definitely isn’t going to please everyone. It is, however, a strange and dreamlike adaptation of a relatively short and minor tale by H.P. Lovecraft, which is almost play-like in its distillation to something perhaps slightly less than […]
Read more "Cool Air (2006)"“In July of 1999, a panel of nuclear physicists discussed the possibility that a heavy ion collider experiment could result in the formation of a black hole. “After an extended debate, the panel decided that such a scenario was not just highly unlikely, but impossible.” And, of course, when we see a statement like this […]
Read more "The Black Hole (2006)"(Mild Spoilers Ahead) I was watching this one with an old friend, and the conversation went something like this: “I thought this was about rats. It’s just zombies.” “No,” I corrected him, “they’re supposed to be rat mutants.” And, after a while, they pulled out the stops on the makeup and the creatures definitely did […]
Read more "Mulberry St (2006)"Fifty-two minutes. It’s a rather strange length for a film. I found myself thinking of the Japanese horror film, Metamorphosis (2011), which came out a few years later: it was Fifty-Four minutes. Both films were independents, and both debuted at film festivals, which makes it even stranger. I wonder if there’s a market in Japan […]
Read more "The iDol (2006)"
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