Tapawingo in the Sioux language means “beautiful place” or "house of joy" which ironically fits well with the premise of this story about a 30+ year old man named Nate Skoog (Jon Heder) who lives in the same town that he grew up in (the fictional town of Tapawingo), under his mother's (Ramona Skoog played by Amanda Bearse) roof. Nate's an unambitious slacker with a go nowhere job who enjoys spending his days riding around in his dune buggy with his best friend Will Luna (Jay Pichardo) until Nate one day finds himself tasked with picking up the boss's 15 year old son Oswalt Eubank (Sawyer Willi…
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I think of all the iterations of the Barbot story, this is probably my favourite. Not least because it is largely devoid of sentiment and has a gloomy sinisterness to it that I found creepy and yet quite emotionally charged. It all starts with the merchant “Otec” (Václav Voska) whose daughters could just as easily have come from “Cinderella”. Two are selfish and venal, the third is “Julie” (Zdena Studenková) who merely wants a rose from her father’s latest travels to fetch the dowry for his other two children. When disaster befalls that journey, he finds himself at the mercy of a mysterious bu…
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After “Balli” (Áskell Einar Pálmason) is badly beaten up by some violent bullies, he arrives at school looking more like the lead in “Phantom of the Opera” than a pupil at a standard Icelandic comprehensive, and that attracts the teasing of “Addi” (Birgir Dagur Bjarkason) and his two friends “Siggi” (Snorri Rafn Frimansson) and “Konni” (Viktor Benóny Benediktsson). Quite quickly, though, all of these boys realise that the drug-fuelled broken homes that most of them come from suggest they have more in common than not, and soon “Balli” is taking them back to the fairly squalid home he shares wit…
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The forthcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip is a cause for celebration in post war Britain, but it isn’t going to affect rationing that still only allows one person one rasher of bacon per week. The folks of a small Yorkshire town have their own cunning plan. Secreted in the middle of the woods, they have a pig. Despite the best efforts of the ferret-like detective “Wormold” (Bill Paterson), they are fattening it up with whatever they can find - including some ingredients that we’d sooner not have known about, ready for the big day. Unbeknownst to them, though, local chirop…
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Veteran communist grand master “Akiva” (Michel Piccoli) is in Geneva for the world chess championships against lapsed Soviet “Pavius” (Alexander Arbatt) and it’s quite a grudge match. He won’t even shake his opponent’s hand beforehand. It’s fairly clear that this older man has health issues, but his adversary is not without his own problems as his wife - whom he didn’t defect with - is now seeking a divorce and is soon a pawn of a different kind. With gamesmanship rife inside and outside the press-packed auditorium, this drama follows both men as it fills in some back story and tries to explai…
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Dealing with Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze _(Mikadono Sanshimai wa Angai, Choroi.)_ is a high school harem type anime where the protagonist is surrounded by two or more of the opposite sex in friendship but usually getting involved on a romantic level eventually. This anime is centered around three sisters,Kazuki Mikadono - eldest sister an aspiring and upcoming actress, Niko Mikadono - middle sister a rising star in female comeptative karate, and the youngest - Miwa Mikadono already at the top of her game at being an ace player to a board game called Shogi (very similar to chess) and their dif…
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Those familiar with my writing are likely well aware that I have often said the cardinal sin in moviemaking is predictability (why see a film if you already know what’s going to happen?). On the heels of that belief, my second biggest cardinal sin in this field is a lack of originality (to a great degree because predictability often walks hand in hand with this shortcoming). And, unfortunately, those are the problems that sink this latest effort from writer-director Noah Baumbach. In a nutshell, this offering tells the story of its self-important title character (George Clooney), a successful …
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Yikes what a painful, annoying, waste of time. There's an ear-tearing, screeching alarm that sounds over and over again that red-lines your irritation. There's nothing good to say about this movie. To be fair, I only made it about 90% of the way through so maybe the last ten minutes are spectacular.... but I wouldn't bet on it. SKIP IT. There are a lot better giant, mythological, monster movies to be enjoyed.…
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Kate Beckinsale's lead character, Ada is about as intimidating as a bag of spinach, in this truly awful, tough girl action flick.
There is little to like here. An unoriginal story with a dash of casual misandry, meets what could best be described, as an unintentional satire of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".
Perhaps the only upside, is the actions not wholly bad but it doesn't really make up, for this films deficits, in most other respects.
In summary, yet another hammy girl boss action flick, no one asked for, much less wanted.…
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**_Miss Zimmer manipulates a provocative dancer to avenge her father_**
A Spanish-French production masterminded by Jess Franco, this combines the moody artistic tone of early ’60’s B&W mystery/horror flicks “Night Tide” and “Carnival of Souls” with bits of the Frankenstein story for imaginative Euro horror. There’s also the risqué sideshow element of “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies,” just not in color. It’s early Franco at the top of his ‘B’ game.
On the feminine front there are several beauties: Lucía Prado (Barbara), Mabel Ka…
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