Recent Posts Tagged With 'musical'

• Swarez\'s Top Ten of 2009

  Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 09:06 in asia, martial arts, Thriller, action, comedy, UK, horror, drama, exploitation, cult, western, musical

  My list consists of some studio products, festival favorites and a few that deserve a wider audience.Happy New Year yall!Van Diemen's Land The first film I saw at this year's Fantastic Fest and the one I think stuck with me the most. The depute feat...

• NINE review

  Posted on Friday December 25th, 2009 at 00:01 in drama, musical, remakes, usa & canada

  For what wants to be a simple, breezy musical, the act of even explaining the origins of "Nine" can be exhausting.  But, I'll give it a shot...  Based on Federico Fellini's autobiographical cinema classic "8 ½", "Nine" made i...

• THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG review

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 00:01 in action, comedy, animation, musical, usa & canada

  Effortlessly looking forward while also looking back, "The Princess and the Frog" is the most satisfying animated Disney film in at least a decade. Much care has been put into it, and it absolutely shows. Children, parents, and animation aficionados...

• Black Metal documentary UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US review

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 16:32 in documentary, cult, musical, until the light takes us black metal documentary murder arson varg fenriz burzum mayhem satyricon frost

  Co-directors Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites weren't black afficianados when a friend of theirs at Amoeba Records in San Francisco turned the two indy-music fans onto a sub-genre, that strangely enough, these days is also being appreciated by even the...

• Today\'s "What The Hell?" Moment Comes Courtesy Of Russian Musical SKAZKA XXI (Сказка-XXI)

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 00:24 in musical, continental europe & russia

  Admittedly, I know very little about upcoming Russian film Skazka XXI and I must concede the possibility that maybe, perhaps, this would all make more sense if I understood the context.  But I doubt it.  Here's what I do know:It is the pr...

• Trailer For MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT THEE MOVIE Arrives!

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 21:15 in asia, video, documentary, musical

  Big, big thanks to Kevin at Nippon Cinema for digging this one up.  My utter Japanese illiteracy was preventing me from finding it myself and it was making me more than a little crazy ...Back in late July news of the untimely death of Futoshi ...

• [SOUTH ASIAN REVIEWS] கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 00:58 in video, Thriller, action, comedy, south asia, drama, cult, musical

  With super powers come super responsibilities.If there's anything that India's insanely vibrant and varied film culture has taught us to expect, that is its continued defiance of any and all expectations. And when it comes to Kollywood, Tamil Nadu's...

• Chicken Superheroes Save (?) the World in Tamil Blockbuster கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 14:26 in video, Thriller, action, south asia, drama, cult, musical

  We've had batmen, spidermen, zebramen, but wait for it.... Chicken Man is coming, courtesy of Kollywood (the Tamil "cousin" of Bollywood, if you will). Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper ...

• 3RD I 2009: Frako Loden Previews the Line-up

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 12:44 in action, documentary, comedy, south asia, drama, cult, western, musical, Festivals, random festival news

  [Our sincere thanks to Frako Loden for contributing her preview of this year's 3rd i line-up to the Twitch readership.] All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray. November is here, and so is the most excellent 3rd i, or the San Francisco In...