The Dyatlov Pass Incident/Devil's Pass (2013)

REVIEW BY: Jeffrey Long

Company: Future Films

Runtime: 96 mins

Format: Imported DVD

Plot: A group of film students go on a trek to investigate the true life mystery of nine Russian skiers who befell an unexplained death while skiing in the Russian mountains in 1959. To this day, their deaths have been one of the most bizarre unsolved mysteries of the 20th century.

Review: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (Or simply Devil's Pass as it's been renamed in America according to IMDB) is a fictional movie using real events for its backdrop. The real life event known as The Dyatlov Pass Incident is quite possibly one of the most spine-tingling, creepy, horrifying, and mysterious incidents to plaque the Fortean world, and to top it all off it still remains 100% completely unsolved to this very day.

I first heard about the real-life event on an episode of the excellent Mysterious Universe podcast a couple years ago and instantly had to go online and read up on it as much as I could, and suffice to say, the things I read pretty much kept me up all night, terrified; short version is that in the 1950's a group of experienced Russian skiers went missing and when a search party found their camp site, they discovered that the tents had been ripped open from the inside, the skiers were all found at various distances away in bare feet and only half-dressed, some with broken ribs, others with skulls crushed, one missing her tongue, and none had any external injuries like bruises or cuts – only internal ones with no external impact points to have caused such injuries. Some of the bodies also had slight levels of radiation coming from them, with all of this culminating in absolutely no solid answers. Various speculation includes mundane explanations such as an avalanche and false mass hysteria, while others include some more interesting reasons such as secret military testing or having been attacked by another group of people, right to some more 'out there' things such as aliens/UFOs, angry spirits, and savage Yetis, and the really weird thing is that oddly enough almost all of those have at least someinteresting evidence to back them up, but all also have noteworthy detractors for them as well. The really curious thing to it all though, and it only adds to the mystery, is that the majority of hard evidence discovered for this case has been deemed Top Secret and Classified by the Russian Government and has never been released to the public, with the one sole researcher to publish a book on all this having died shortly after in a questionable car accident.

Now that is just a very quick summery. One article in particular that I found, this one right here, gives a very in-depth and thorough look at the event and I highly recommend going and reading that before watching this movie...hell, even before continuing on with this review. It's a bit of a long read, but wellworth it and it's almost a Must-Read in order to fully understand my anticipation and eventual feelings on this movie. My only issue with it is the author of that article states his own personal opinion as fact in a few instances, and I disagree with that practice pretty heavily. Other then that though, it's a very engaging read. Also, if you want a much shorter (albeit still decently long) article, Mysterious Universe has their own up right here, but I still recommend going to that first article at some point as well because it is much more thorough and has been updated with some extra and newer information since the time of the Mysterious Universe article.

Ok, so you got that done now? You're back and ready for the rest of the review? Ok, good. Hopefully you're just as captivated by that as I was and now you can see why I was so interested in this whole affair, and it's something that ever since I started reading up on it I've been saying deserves to have a really good, well-made, creepy-as-hell movie made based off of it, so I got pretty damn excited last year when I heard that one was actually being made. However, as more and more news came out on it, I got a little bit disappointed when I read that it would not actually be a movie based off the event itself, but rather a fictional story set within modern day that just uses the incident as a backdrop. I was still excited because I figure some really good stuff can still be done with that, but it wasn't quite what I had been hoping for. Add to that, it's also found footage as well. Now, I love found footage horror flicks quite a bit, but there are some movies I feel don't need the treatment and would be perfectly fine (if not better) as a traditionally-shot movie (The Dinosaur Project was one such movie), and this was one that I initially thought the same thing about when reading this news. Finally, the last bit that had me worried was that it was being made by Renny Harlin, a mostly-action director that I'm not a big fan of outside of Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Deep Blue Sea, and the terribly underrated Cutthroat Island, especially since his only other forays into horror were the abysmal Exorcist: The Beginning and the forgetful Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. (Side note: I do believe this is by far the longest intro I ever wrote for one of my reviews...)

Despite my growing doubts though, I should have trusted in Renny Harlin's self-professed obsession with the original mystery, because he did a pretty good job (well mostly, but we'll get to that in due time). In this fictional follow-up we have a group of university film students who are interested in the original mystery going to Russia in the middle of winter to shoot a documentary and walk the same route the original team did in the 50's, trying to recreate some of the events that led to whatever happened to them back then. Of course, as you can probably guess, they find everything they go there looking for, plus tons more, and it is not exactly a good thing for them. These central characters are all played by mostly-unknowns, with most of them having little to no previous acting experience. Because of that, their acting leaves quite a bit to be desired and is outright bad in a few key scenes that would otherwise be creepy if not for the bad acting taking you out of it.With that said, they're still serviceable enough most of the time and where they really shine is that they all seem to have genuinely good chemistry together; Even when the characters are arguing and fighting, these actors all play quite well off of one another, which also helps bring some much-needed comedic levity to the whole affair just before the shit starts hitting the fan and it becomes a non-stop edge of you seat spook fest.

Most of that spook action comes to us via a slowly growing sense of uneasiness, starting with some electronic malfunctions, escalating to strange footprints around their camp site, going a bit further when they find a severed tongue, and then only getting more batshit stranger from there, topping it off with one awesome scene in particular of a nighttime avalanche where both the visual CGI as well as the audio SFX for it were great, realistic, and quite frankly pretty damn frightening. Actually, even removing the avalanche scene and looking at just the snow-covered wilderness, snow in general seems to always add an extra level of atmosphere and tension to a horror movie and I'm not really sure why. Even in not-so-good ones it manages to raise the atmosphere up a couple notches, especially if the snow is currently falling in said scene (I'm still waiting for a Friday the 13th movie set at Crystal Lake during the winter – I think that would be pretty damn awesome to see). It also helped that this snow wasn't just some sound stage or fake snow set up in someone's backyard property, oh no, the movie was actually filmed out in the middle of the Russian wilderness in the middle of winter (though sadly not at the actual location of the real events, I believe), which means real snow which in turn means it was genuinly cold for the actors when they were filming, so you can actually see their breath in most of the scenes which makes things more authentic and portrays the cold that much more realistically, and something most movies set in the snow tend to overlook because it's usually just fake snow.

Where the movie lost me however, was when it started to rapidly fall apart toward the end and they kind of leave the whole mythology of the real incident behind to go off in their own direction for the remainder of the movie, at which point it did several things I didn't really like: First, it took a very sharp and unexpected turn into some kind of weird badly-CGIed monster movie that popped up out of nowhere and didn't even have any sort of hints throughout or build-up during the movie to get to this point, they just randomly threw in some very bad CGIed monsters for the sake of it. Along those lines another aspect of this last bit that I didn't like is that, along with these monsters, they also threw a lotof other random things at you out of the blue and expect you to just buy it. Somehow this movie manages to touch on weird mutant monsters, The Philadelphia Experiment (another classic mystery that I love quite a bit, just not randomly shoehorned into this movie), The Mothman sightings of Point Pleasant, time travel, teleportation, weird silvery warp hole thingies, and a few other things I won't go into, and the movie jams all of that into the last half an hour, all entirely out of nowhere, to the point where they totally left behind the entire point of the movie and almost never even touch on the actual Dyatlov Pass Incident again, coming across like Renny Harlin ran out of time on the script for the movie so decided to randomly toss in the third act of another completely unrelated movie script just to give the first some form of third act. That last half an hour really doesn't feel like the same movie as the first hour, at all, and to top it off it also feels like he forgot to somehow tie all that wackiness back into the actual Incident that the movie is based off of because it pretty much doesn't even come back around to it anymore after that point.

Adding to all that, I wasn't that big a fan of their ultimate explanation for the original Dyatlov Pass Incident. Then again, when you've been obsessed with a 50-year old mystery like this, I suppose no matter what explanation they went with it probably would have been a let down either way and couldn't possibly live up to that kind of expectation pressure. Still, the direction they go was a bit of a pretty sharp turn and a giant leap into a totally unexpected direction. A direction that, as mentioned previously, randomly included monsters that looked like they could have been birthed by Golum from Lord of the Rings, and done so by very distractingly bad CGI.

I still want a movie about the actual original incident itself at some point. A movie version of that, I imagine, would be something akin to Event Horizon, but out in the middle of snow-covered wilderness during a snowstorm. With that said, I was actually pretty impressed by how faithful 80% of this movie was to the original events (or at least what we know or theorize about them). Sure, there are some details it fudges a bit and takes some liberties on, and some others they rush through or skim over a bit too quickly for my tastes, but for the most part it mentions just about all the major (and even some of the more minor) aspects in some capacity, delivering a frighteningly uneasy and intense little horror/mystery flick. It also acts as a great intro to those wanting to know a bit more about the real event, and it shows that Renny Harlin really is a fan of the original mystery as he proclaimed during a recent interview, leading him to want to do a movie about it.

However, it's that other 10% that brings the movie down quite a bit as that final half an hour makes the movie quickly go from being an amazingly effective, tension-filled, atmospheric movie to just plain silly as it devolves into a CGI-fest monster flick and kind of shoves a whole bunch of weird random things right into your face and then beats you over the head with them, leaving behind all the uneasy creepy subtlety that made the rest of the movie up to that point so strong. In addition to that, the ending doesn't even match up with the beginning at all; The movie starts off with the news covering the search teams trying to find these missing kids and then eventually finding this footage and playing it, yet the way the movie ends it totally ignores all that and, well, not to spoil anything but its kind of impossible for anyone to have found this footage, or at the very least in the way that the beginning of the movie implied anyway.

While The Dyatlov Pass Incident played in Russian theaters and is out on DVD now in various places of the world, it's actually due out over here in Canada and the U.S. under the name Devil's Pass on August 23rd for a very limited theatrical run and (while not yet confirmed) probably a VOD release around the same time as well, since that seems to be how these limited theatrical runs tend to go this day in age.

The Dyatlov Pass Incident (Or Devil's Pass) is certainly worth checking out, especially as a ' Dyatlov Pass Incident 101' for the real event. However, personally, if you're the kind of person that doesn't need everything explained for you then I'd say you're better off turning the movie off around the hour mark or shortly after (whenever the main characters get chased off into an abandoned underground bunker) and just assume the camera footage cuts off there. What you'd be left with is a MUCH stronger and far more effective movie then the one you'll be turning off a half hour later. While I was watching I was planning on giving this movie either an 8/10 or a 9/10, but what the movie very quickly descends into was just a total slap in the face and made me outright hate everything after that first hour.

5/10 rooms in the Psych Ward

The Doom Generation (1995)

Title: The Doom Generation (1995)

Director: Gregg Araki

Cast: Rose McGowan, James Duval, Johnathon Schaech

Review:

The Doom Generation is a film with characters that exist on the basis of two basic primal human needs: food and sex, that’s all these kids think about, that’s all these kids need. At one point, Amy, one of the main characters in the film tells one of the boys “You’re like a support system for a cock!” Referencing the guys none stop sexual advances. The story for The Doom Generation is all about these two teenagers, Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), both of whom feel like they don’t belong in society, like they don’t fit. They are the traditional outcasts. Jordan is kind of innocent in a way, with a look of naiveté on his face while Amy is imposing, intimidating and strong. It kind of feels like Amy has got the ‘cojones’ in the relationship. Everything changes when they decide to go to a convenience store to buy munchies and cigarettes and for no apparent reason; the scene quickly escalates into a full fledged massacre, complete with decapitation and all. Joining the gruesome twosome is a guy named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech) whom they decide to call ‘X’ for short. So Amy, Jordan and X decide to go on a cross country trip, running from the law and surviving as best they can by holding up convenience stores along the way, Natural Born Killers (1994) style.

And speaking of Natural Born Killers, this is the film that The Doom Generation mostly resembles, and it makes sense that it should be influenced by it, Natural Born Killers made a huge impact in the world when it was first released in 1994 because of its relentless levels of violence. The Doom Generation is like a low rent version of Natural Born Killers. It’s got the violence and it’s got the sex too, but there are various differences between the two films. For example, Natural Born Killers is about two lovers on a murder spree through America, but the film is a comment on the way the media influences people, how they distort the truth, how they’ll make heroes out of villains. The Doom Generation plays with the same premise of murderous lovers (all three of them) but it takes the opportunity to comment on human sexuality, namely: threesomes, bisexuality and homosexuality. So in a very palpable way, The Doom Generation is also an entirely different film than Natural Born Killers. But of course, this being a Gregg Araki film, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that it touches upon human sexuality in one form or another, this seems to be one of his favorite themes. Or rather, what distinguishes him as a director, it’s his staple. The opening credits say that this is "A Heterosexual Movie by Gregg Araki" which couldn't be further from the truth! 

The Doom Generation is part of Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy” a series of films that focuses on the lives of troubled teenagers in America. This trilogy is composed of the films Totally Fucked Up (1993), The Doom Generation and Nowhere (1997). All three are about bisexual/gay teenagers. In The Doom Generation Jordan and Amy are heterosexuals, but Jordan has bisexual tendencies, so when ‘X’, the loose cannon of the group makes some advances towards Jordan, suddenly we’re talking about a threesome. Throughout the whole movie there’s this sexual tension between all three characters to the point where you just know that at some point something’s gonna happen between the three, so if you’re not comfortable with these type of scenarios, don’t bother with The Doom Generation. Gregg Araki, the director of this film had identified himself first as a homosexual, then as a bisexual. They guy even married actress Kathleen Robertson who starred in Nowhere, so the guy plays on both teams. This is probably why many of his films have such a strong bisexual element to them. On The Doom Generation, the three main characters want to live to the beat of their own drum, they don’t care about society’s rules, they want to do whatever the hell they want to do, but how will the world react to their behavior?

Totally Fucked Up also deals with that issue of how the world perceives gays. In The Doom Generation we meet a group of true blue Americans who find homosexuality repulsive, and so suddenly Jordan, Amy and X find themselves in the clutches of these people who don’t accept the trios’ sexual exploits. This is a theme that’s prevails in many of Araki’s movies, the fear of gay bashers. Those individuals who hate gay people so much that they are willing to incur in violent acts against them. Similar characters were also displayed in Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film in which a group of gay bashers kick the living shit out of two gay lovers, even going as far as killing. One of the saddest things in the world is not being able to accept others for being who they are. I mean, you don’t have to agree with another person’s lifestyle, but to incur in violent acts against people who are not like you is something I’ve never agreed with, and neither does Araki. In The Doom Generation, a group of gay bashers are represented as being 100% American, even going as far as singing the national anthem as they are bashing the skulls of gay people, as if saying, this is the kind of people America is producing. Araki also displays them with a Nazi swastika on their chests; so to Araki, gay bashers are on the same level of evil as Nazi’s. I understand the allusion, because Nazi’s where basically individuals who wanted everyone to be like them, they didn’t want blacks, or Jews, or people who weren’t Catholics, so that comparison is completely valid in my book.

At the same time, Jordan, Amy and X also represent America, if we put their three last names together, they are Red, White and Blue, so these three murderous, sexually adventurous individuals are also a product of the U.S. of A. Araki is probably wanting to say we are all products of the same messed up society. This is also a theme that is a constant in the movie. “This world is fucked up” “I sometimes feel the city is sucking away at my soul” and “Ever feel that reality is more twisted than dreams?” are just some of the many lines of dialog on this film that accentuate the status quo of society. Also, throughout the entire movie, you’ll see these big signs that display messages like “Prepare for the Apocalypse” and “Welcome to Hell”. When these kids buy something at a convenience store, and they do visit a few of them, the total for their purchase is always 6.66, no matter where they go! As if pointing to the fact that these kids are cursed somehow, or as the title suggests ‘doomed’. All these elements add up to a not so subtle way of establishing the films pessimistic (or truthful?) outlook on the world and the way the young people of the 90’s perceived it, funny how things don’t change much from decade to decade, though I think this is something normal, everybody, no matter what generation they are from think the world is ending.

Ultimately, this trio of knuckleheads might not come off as the most likable of characters, in fact, they do some downright despicable things, but I don’t think Araki was trying to portray wholesome, goody little two shoes on this movie. In fact, he was going for the polar opposite of that. He was going for the most messed up teens he could think of, it feels as if Araki was trying to point a finger at the kind of people that are emerging from the society we live in; people with no morals, no rules and no fidelity to each other.  Amy, Jordan and X function without a conscience. “Guilt is for married old people!“  They are in many ways like animals, existing on primal needs. And this strong sexual need isn’t displayed in the film as something that comes only from men, though Amy criticizes X for only thinking of sex, she herself has been with a large number of people, most of which she doesn’t even remember! So it’s like everyone on this movie is a sex maniac! So my friends, this is one of those movies that explores a side of sexuality that because of its controversial nature is addressed in films only sporadically, last time I saw a film about a threesome was Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and on that one too things go down the drain, I guess the point these type of films are trying to make is that threesomes just don’t work. At one point or another jealousy will show its ugly head and things will just get sour.

Rating: 3 ½ out of 5

The Bay (2012)

REVIEW BY: Jeffrey Long

Company: Automatik Entertainment

Runtime: 84 mins

Format: DVD

Plot: On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told - until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy, but a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours though people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge.

Review: I love found-footage horror movies, so I try to watch any and all new ones when they come out, but The Bay specifically I had been anticipating pretty heavily after hearing some excellent word of mouth on it out of last year's TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). While it took me a bit longer to get around to it then I would have liked, luckily I was able to catch it recently on DVD, and suffice to say 80-odd minutes later I found myself thinking twice about going for that next glass of water...

In The Bay, an entire small island town during a 4th of July celebration weekend gets infected via the drinking water by small parasitic creatures that eat you from the inside out, mutated to a larger size due to the Government-tampered water supply, and we watch as the fun-loving celebrations slowly descend into panic and utter chaos.

What struck me almost right away here as a pretty ingenuous twist on the overdone found footage genre, was that it actually wasn't so much a found footage movie in the traditional sense as it was a fictional documentary that incorporated found footage elements within it. It has a survivor of the events, after the fact, going back and making a documentary on the events that befell this small coastal town, since the Government and mainstream media have been failing to report on it, and she's making this documentary from edited-together footage of this event from all sorts of different sources – home video cameras, security footage, police car cameras, news broadcasts, recorded phone conversations, webcam chats, 911 calls - just dozens upon dozens of different sources, most of which are professional and thus that means very little shakey-cam stuff for those of you who get headaches or motion sickness from that sort of thing.

Because of this approach, with footage from various multiple sources, both of the event itself as well as small signs leading up to it that hint at something not quite being right, the movie ended up being very creepy (even more so then most other found footage movies that are only from the POV of a single camera) because you start getting a sense of dread even before the characters realize anything is happening. You're given an uneasy suspenseful feeling right from the get go, and while the majority of the movie is a bit of a slow burn, it uses that time very well to slowly, but steadily, increase that feeling of unease and confusion. The movie, and by extension it's creepy factor, is helped along even more-so by the fact that the mutant parasitic creatures that are the cause of everything here – the Isopods – are actual real-life creatures that actually can get quite large in rare cases (seriously, Google Pictures that shit). Even though the movie itself is fictional, the horrific events depicted in it could very easily actually happen, making everything within all the more spine-tingling.

The biggest drawback that keeps you from getting fully invested however, is that aside from the reporter that's narrating the movie, there's not really any main characters to latch onto as everyone else is mostly just background people in various footage, but none really get any significant screen time. Hell, even the reporter lady herself wasn't in a whole lot of the actual 'found footage' stuff, and was completely absent from the final 20 minutes or so.

To be honest, I actually could have done with less of her present-day webcam chats with her boss, as well as her constant narration of everything happening on-screen, because that stuff sort of removed some of the tension by A, breaking it up and cutting in to take us out of what's happening in some otherwise really intense and creepy scenes, and B, outright spoiling things that were to come later on that would have been more of a surprise and more shocking had we not been expecting them. I would have preferred her to have a much stronger presence in the 2009-set footage and just cut out more, if not all, of her present-day webcam chat stuff.

I also wasn't a fan of the fact that there's no real climax to the movie - The movie builds the tension really well, culminating in a very creepy sequence where a family arrives to the town late in the evening only to find it empty of celebrations and dead bodies strewn all over the streets and no idea as to what's going on, but in terms of story structure it doesn't build up to anything at all and it kind of just...ends... and it leaves you feeling like the movie was over before it had even reached the final act.

Those few things aside though, The Bay is a highly enjoyable and quite creepy found footage movie, that acts as a bit of a refresher to an otherwise stale subgenre. This is one that I look forward to re-watching every once in awhile in the future, although it certainly will make you quite paranoid about ever drinking tap water again...

8/10 rooms in the Psych Ward

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Total Recall (2012)

10 5

Details: DVD Rip, Dual Audio, English sub

Seeds: 140
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Year: 2012
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston

Description:
Worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that there is a spy after visiting operate - a company that provides its customers with an implanted false memories of li ; fi would have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
Review:
When I heard the news that Total Recall has been remade, I was so disappointed because most of them were there. However, I have never hated a movie based on this simple principle. Before the release, I was just curious what direction you are going to take this film.I always rate films on two scales: the technical aspects (target zone ), and when I actually like (subjective scale). Im pretty lenient with sci-fi film so bad that my review as objective as possible.Pros: futuristic world that was envisioned in the film was well-planned. Visually the film is stunning. If you're the type who reads strange inventions, which you see on the screen, the film is filled with them. There was a lot of action scenes, and most of the time the film gave us a feast for the eyes that we havent seen before. Seemed to be a common theme in the film (without questioning what Real) was still hráts gravity. This may affect the start, but the world turns upside down several times, and his visual interesting.Cons: plot. He was there, but not as deep as you can expect, Total Recall remake. There were a few interesting things thrown in there, but the plot was really strong film.the action sequences. There were many positive aspects that all actions a lot, but the film seemed to rely too much on it. The film did not come as a huge chase scene, and it became a bit repetitive after a while. If you like a little meat on their lands spine, you can lower your expectations a bit before seeing this. Conclusion: Try not to think of this film as a direct remake of the original. Think of it as an analogue tape makes someone elses song cover ... very different styles. Rises from the original film and written ideas, but on a different spin it.In I liked it. I was joking, but a film that gave a lot of relief. From what I remember, it's not a total mess.

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Inception (2010)

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Year: 2010
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page

Description:
Cleaner way is an opportunity to regain his old life as payment task deemed impossible.
Review:
What is the most resistant parasite? Idea! Yes, Nolan has created something incredibly, incredibly and god gifted mind blow viewers mind away. Show the world premiere of the film, the most original dreamers led Hollywood, London, and has already gained a first-class reviews all over the world and score maximum points;! Now the question arises, what is the film all deserve it? Dom Cobb (Di Caprio) extractor is paid to invade the dreams of several business tycoons and steal their ideas top secret. Cobb robs heavily on the psyche with practiced skill, while hes still haunted by the memory of his late wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), who has a nasty habit appeared in the subconscious and wreaking havoc on a mission. Cobb was so much work involved in the robbery, he lost his love! But then, as fate decided magnate Ken Watanabe (Saito) passes the responsibility of the company to dissolve the business empire to rival Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy). But this time his mission was to steal an idea but to plant new: What happens InceptionThen classic heist film tradition. The task Cobbs Brainiac team again with professionals, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a longtime organizer, Tom Hardy (Eames), forger who can turn the will and Yusuf (Dileep Rao ), provider of powerful sedative. There is only one word to describe the cinematography, set designs and special effects, and it is exceptional! You do not just watch the scene happens you feel. Scannána is a real thrill ride. The action scenes are well picturized and the music is Hans Zimmer Favorite electronically. If not, in the course of the film, you'll be able to move your eyes from the screen to the other object.Leonardo are sub popularly known for his Jack Dawson in Titanic, was released as part Dom Cobb will be remembered forever. Performance may or may not load him an Oscar, but it will be the best performance to date. The supporting cast was very unusual work. Christopher Nolan, oh! what man is. His work is nothing less than a masterpiece, and should all be award for best director. If Inception is a metaphysical puzzle, as well as a metaphorical one: difficult without connections between Cobbs dream weaving and production scannána Nolans, attracting suggested that mess with our heads and outflow , porting continuing impression.To out, I just want to draw to express to the end of his life, for yourself first initially suffer from extremely bright classic created by Nolan! My rating: 10/10Thanks & Regards

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Shooter (2007)

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Seeds: 113
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Year: 2007
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover

Description:
Sagittarius living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning the plot to kill the president. Ultimately cheated and framed for the attempt to go on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set up, and why.
Review:
You Tom Clancys Jack Ryan series (Patriot Games, clear and present danger, the sum of all Fears) was to take the best parts, and only the best of the best parts of the movie Rambo (First Blood) is a mixed field completed close to shooters. Pull his punches and always surprises when the most anticipated shooters itMark Whalberg Bob Lee following a disastrous mission, where the refusal, a former military sniper that the military play the role of a smart, engaging and idol There is a good movie of the past when they killed his best friend and observer. Three years later, he suspected assassin, the president of a mile away to kill a couple can do is a shot of a patch (Danny Glover to try by spirited played with) been hired by. Will reflect on the website are asked to monitor how the sniper is located. But it was a conspiracy diplomat, a ride on the presumption that it is determined by the assessment. InnocenceShooter very believable twists and turns of an extensive conspiracy, trying to prove that, of course, writers wimp out and plot (can not think of writers, including international oil Despite the refusal inexpensive way of drawing, an original plot device, and then left to hunt?). But the rest of the film is solid as a rock, it's hard to have a fear. This movie really put you in the shoes of a sniper and psycho Elias Koteas performance will be the only real distraction SwaggerThe character in this film as accurate as the one that gives an overview of the approach is impressive, and the film is not heavy , but throughout the film, and Kate Mara seems less upset or effort. This film can be achieved with or without the characters or their respective actors. As well as some of the character relationships, particularly the relationship between Michael Pe sometimes seem forced? Rhona Mitra plays Lourdes confidant Nick Memphis and the FBI, as a character. They come almost effortlessly under friendly convincingOverall, shooter, of course, of course, it is not dumbed down to such an entertaining thrill ride. If the gun is an effective opening of the game and some complex and exciting action sequences in the film is very intelligent Shooter Alley right and not disappoint. 7.6 out of 10

Barrio Brawler/American Brawler (2013)

REVIEW BY: Jeffrey Long

Company:  The Asylum

Runtime: 92 mins

Format: Screener

Plot: A struggling martial arts teacher must compete in an illegal underground fight ring in order to save his brother from a crime boss and reunite with his family.

Review: Barrio Brawler (Or American Brawler as its actually called on Asylum's official website) was among the recent screeners that Asylum sent me for review. It's due out in select theaters tonight (joining Hold Your Breath as being among the select rare Asylum flick to make it to theaters), and it's due out on DVD and BluRay at the end of August on the 27th.

Now when it comes to B-Movies, it's no secret that my favorites are killer animals, Mega this vs Giant thats, mockbusters, and horror or sci-fi flicks, none of which this one is, so I was a bit out of my element with Barrio Brawler, but since Asylum was kind enough to forward me a copy of the screener, the least I could do was give it a shot and do up a review on it. With all that said, I ended up being thoroughly entertained by it. I mean, it's no Sharknado, Atlantic Rim, Transmorphers, Nazis at the Center of the Earth, Age of Dinosaurs, or any of those types of mindless fun summer popcorn style movies, but it's not trying to be. It's much more of a low-key drama, focused more on its characters, with their own personal trials and tribulations as opposed to giant CGI monsters wrecking havoc through some unfortunate cities.

Oh, and MMA martial arts. Lotsof MMA martial arts. And the really surprising thing? It's all excellently well-shot - In a lot of movies like this, especially in the cheapie Direct-to-Video market, martial arts fight scenes are done with a combination of super quick-cuts and trick photography mixed with the occasional decent shot of actual talent. In Barrio Brawler however, the camera mostly just stays on nice still and lingering shots while the talented martial artist actors go to town on one another in extremely impressive, violent and just all around brutal fight scenes; If you're any bit queasy on physical violence, this movie is not for you, but if you're fine with it, this movie will have your eyes glued to the screen for fear of missing even a single beat of a fight – even three seconds could be enough to miss a half-dozen kicks, a couple punches, and a somersault through the air.

Another aspect that was quite interesting was having an older person as the central character. Not to say the actor is an old fogie, but normally for movies like this its a teenager or someone in their young to mid-20's in the main role, so it was refreshing to have a movie not scared to focus on a bit older of a main character, especially one that got moves like Jackie Chan crossed-cloned with Tony Jaa. It also helps that, despite this being his very first movie, the dude has some pretty decent acting chops. Now, it's nothing to write home about and stop the presses for, but considering what the movie is and what it's aiming to be, and for someone with no previous acting experience, the guy handles his own pretty damn well. Actually, I believe all the actors in this one are essentially unknowns (this is their very first movie for most of them as well), and while some are pretty stilted and rough in the acting department (mostly the more minor characters), some of the others were surprisingly good. But then again, people don't watch a movie about underground MMA fight matches for the acting, they watch it for the fights, which as I mentioned above, are well worth the price of admission alone.

With a movie like Barrio Brawler (or American Brawler, or whatever they end up going with in the end), there's not a whole lot I can really say on it – Most of the actors are good, with their characters having been decently-written, and while the plot is a bit thin, overly-predicable, and has a few slightly-longer-then-necessary exposition scenes in the first half that drag things out just a tad too long, it's still serviceable enough for the real reason people are watching this, and that's for the amazing, albeit very intense and quite brutal, MMA fight scenes. 

If you're lucky enough to live in an area where this is playing at a nearby theater (starting tonight!), I highly recommend it as I can imagine the fight scenes would look even more spectacular on the big screen. If not however, be sure to pick up your DVD or BluRay copy on or after August 27th when it hits stores. 

7/10 rooms in the Psych Ward

 

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The Tree of Life (2011)

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Year: 2011
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain

Description:
Family story in Waco Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and the parents struggle with conflicting philosophies.
Review:
I dont crows most viewers to agree with me because you have a decent rating, but if you're looking for someone gyűlöltéka film, I suspect you, you probably will not like it, and I will be spared the unpleasant experience it . Just indicate their preference information you and I have enjoyed many artistic kínálatáta IMDB top recommendations, but I tend to fare more straightforward.Ill only defies protocol and now say they had no idea what is this film that is about. I wanted to go to 20 minutes, but my friend insisted to stay until the end to see what's the point. Others do not leave a film in the middle, and there's a lot of fidgeting going on in the theater. This is the first time in my life, I fell asleep for a few minutes cinema.There no plot - just a stream of images of two boys during childhood memories andthe juice, trehozásáta earth. The cameraman was very impressive, but the overall result is oh-so-boring. I'm sure at one point, but I do not bother to try to understand it.Apologies fans. I do not mean that the deviation of film. I'd like to save a few people sitting on it, not like it.

Naked Lunch (1991)

Title: Naked Lunch (1991)

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: David Cronenberg (script) and William S. Burroughs (novel)

Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Joseph Scoren, Monique Mercure

Review:

Naked Lunch is a film that many consider to be incomprehensible, the kind of film that some will watch and inevitably reach a point where they’ll think “what the hell is going on here?” I can understand anyone who ends up feeling this way while watching Naked Lunch because it certainly has various levels of bizarreness going for it, but in my opinion the film is not the unintelligible mess that some make it out to be. Personally I think you can watch Naked Lunch as a comment on drug addiction and nothing more and you’ll be fine, but you’d understand the movie on a whole other level if you go in knowing and understanding the films background, where it’s coming from and how it came to be. So with this review my dear readers I offer you a small glimpse of the tale that comes before the movie, so it’ll help you understand it just a little better. But going into Naked Lunch what you must first keep in mind is that it’s a film about writers and writing. It’s a film that explores that whole world of literary guys and gals who live, breath and die for writing. As one of the characters says in the film: "It's a literary high, a Kafka high" 

Naked Lunch the film, is based on William S. Burroughs novel of the same name. Now Naked Lunch isn’t any old novel, it was written by Burroughs in 1959 and it is based on Burroughs own experiences with various forms of drug addiction. Upon it’s first release the book was considered highly controversial, it was banned in many states and countries because it was considered too vulgar.  Burroughs was a Junkie in the worst sense of the word. He was not only addicted to Heroin, he also dabbled in all sorts of drugs. He got into all sorts of legal troubles throughout his life because of his drug addiction, he even did some jail time. In a way, I’d compare him with Hunter S. Thompson; both of their writings where based on their own personal experiences with drugs. It’s like they went into this crazy drug addled trip and then came back and reported everything they saw in their hallucinatory states. This is why in the film; the main character takes a drug that takes him to an “alternate universe” called ‘Interzone’. Being “in the zone” is a term often times used to refer to being under the influence, so in the film, whenever the main character says he’s in Interzone, he’s in a drug trip. In the same way that Dorothy visited the magical Land of Oz when she got hit in the head, William Lee, the films main character visits Interzone when he takes the drug called ‘Black Meat’. So you have to pay attention to the moments when we are in Interzone, and the moments when we are in the real world.

I saw Interzone as Burroughs own literary fantasy land, where everyone is a writer, everyone has their own living typewriters; that’s right, on Interzone typewriters are alive (actually they resemble giant insects!) and they also speak. The typewriters in Interzone are sexually excited when they like what you type into them. Of course, this is a metaphor for a writers own desire to write things that are worth a damn. In Interzone, if your writing is good, maybe your typewriter will have an orgasm. The theme of writing and the things that writers care about permeates the whole film. In this film characters talk about things like the validity of stream of consciousness writing vs. a more coherent form of writing. They talk about writing what comes out of your brain, vs. constant rewriting and so forth. So if you’re not into writing, then don’t bother with this film! If on the other hand you like to explore the nature of writing, and the crazy world of writers, then indulge, this movie was made for you.

Now something that we need to keep in mind when watching Naked Lunch is that it’s more of a Cronenberg film then an actual adaptation of William Burrough’s novel, so don’t expect a literal translation of the book. Cronenberg himself has gone down as saying that this film functions more as an amalgamation of many of Burroughs novels, including Junkie, which is also one of his most famous ones. Cronenberg explains that Naked Lunch the film, captures a lot of who Burrough’s was as a human being, it tries to capture the kind of life he lived, which is probably why the film dives deep into the life of a man who struggles with his own homosexual desires. Other similarities with Burroughs life include, same as the main character in the film, working as an exterminator, being addicted to various drugs and accidentally killing his wife, an event that marked Burrough’s life and writing till the end of his days. In fact, he said on one occasion that it was her death that pushed him to become an accomplished writer. So do not expect an exact literal translation of the book, rather, expect a mix up of events and elements from Burroughs life, elements from various Burroughs novels and Cronenberg’s own visual perks as a director and storyteller, for example, the insect typewriters are all Cronenberg, who admits to having something of an obsession with insects, what can you expect from the guy who directed The Fly (1986)? In my opinion, this melding of two genius minds makes for an extremely interesting and unique film, one that you won’t soon forget.

Naked Lunch cost something from 16 to 18 million dollars, but only made about 2.6 in theaters, something to be expected from a film that’s so offbeat. I sometimes wonder how David Cronenberg continues to make movies! Sure he has a hit every now and then, like The Fly (1986) and A History of Violence(2005), but a lot of his films don’t make their budget back or don’t make enough to be considered a success, so how does he do it? He makes flops yet always finds someone to finance his next one. Take for example Cosmopolis (2012), a film that cost 20 million to make yet only made 6! It flopped because it was so dense, so stale, 90% of the film takes place inside of a limo! I’m not saying I didn’t like Cosmopolis (I actually enjoyed the themes) but I will say that it’s not an easy film to see on one sitting because everything happens inside of a car and there comes a point where you can’t avoid thinking it’s monotonous; a fact that ensured its failure even though it starred current ‘it’ boy Robert Pattinson. And yet there’s Cronenberg, slated to direct yet another film called Maps to the Stars (2014). But who cares if they make money or not as long as he keeps making his movies. I’ve always admired Cronenberg as a director, in my opinion, he has never sold out. He refuses to make stupid cinema, and for that I respect the guy immensely. Cronenberg caters to those that like brainy films, films with meat to them, this of course does not sit well with the masses who love only explosions and special effects. Cronenberg aims to feed your mind, his films always have a philosophical angle to them, which is what attracts me to them.

Cronenberg (right) next to Burroughs

     

Naked Lunch is a film that speaks in symbolisms, so when you see something terribly strange like a person who kills bugs with his breath, well, you just gotta ask yourself what the filmmakers are trying to say with these visuals. Same goes for all the bizarre things you’ll see in this movie which range from giant half caterpillar, half human creatures, to alien like beings known as ‘Mugwumps’. But when we look at it from a Cronenberg perspective, and the kind of films that Cronenberg makes, all this weirdness fits in perfectly, after all, we’re talking here about the guy who made films like Videodrome (1983) and eXistenZ (1999)! Bottom line with this movie is that you must strap yourself tight for one bizarre trip. It’s not a film for everyone. This is a film for those who have a resistance to the bizarre, the dark, the depressive, if you can take a trip to the dark side of the moon, then go for it. Otherwise you’ll just be weirded out.

Rating: 5 out of 5

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

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Year: 2009
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston

Description:
View Wolverines early in life, especially in times of armed government forces, and will affect his later years.
Review:
I'll state my credentials Front: Im chicken. I read X-Men comics in my past, but for many years. I do not remember every detail of every relationship and back story, this is not a huge X-Men Expert. I really liked the X-Men and X2.I movie was so excited when I heard they filmed the movie Wolverine. He and Gambit were my two favorite characters from the comics, and Wolverine was definitely the best written and acted as one of the best characters in X-Men franchise. I thought it must be good! I counted days to reverse, unless issued. So I went to the theater, and went not disappointed, but not thrilled either. It was a centrist movie that does not seem to know what he wanted to be. But I say go see if you made X-Men Hugh Jackman or fan.The major crime committed in writing Wolverine. I always say writers do not get enough money for a good movie. But no good game players (most everything is Wolverine does not do well with that particular Theyre) and properly addressed can cover up shoddy writing like this. The screenplay was everywhere. There was none of the excitement more lively than the first two X-Men films. Wolverine and clever wit jokes were almost forgotten. Possible wouldve been nice if they decided to make Wolverine dark, almost evil character was supposed to have before he lost his memory. But they did not. It was neither good nor bad. Wolverine was twofold. View emo Wolverine. Not above doing wrong, but not really in it because it made him feel bad. No really interesting plot lines or points in any case. The writers do not seem to even know how to develop the relationship between Wolverine and Sabertooth. And the love story to put in the studio just to satisfy us old comic book to go see a movie without him? If so, the studio did us a disservice because if you wanted to make the story of Wolverine lover (which, hey, I'm gone, see), this movie was not that either. And when I saw the trailer that Gambit was in the movie, too, I was thrilled! Gambit in the film, after all! But he was kind of confusing and underdeveloped Gambit. Could not he at least had his New Orleans accent? Maps are cool, but is mostly not for everything and not feel that Gambit much.The film has some good moments in it where you actually say yes! Do not put spoilers, so I will not tell you what they are, but for me they made a movie worth seeing. While I have not posted anywhere on your list of worst movie, I do not appreciate it with X-Men and X2 on my list of favorites, either.

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Jurassic Park III (2001)

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Year: 2001
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni

Description:
A certain odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Alan Grant to go to Isla Sorna (the second ingen dinosaur lab.), Resulting creature unexpected destination ... and unexpected new inhabitants on the island.
Review:
Firstly, this is not the last episode was the series Jurassic go all the bad reviews it got when it was released. In fact, it is much more enjoyable than the stupid second JP. Is he the first? No, of course not. Original story is easily the best of the three, but I found the film fun and much better than what I am in charge of the scannánó LEGAL believe.The doing clever short film. People have seen a lot of dinosaurs now let's not overdo it ... and they are not the only film in about an hour-and-a-half (not including the closing credits.). Which make this short and sweet. We saw some new reptiles, some fear, enjoying the beautiful forest scenery (filmed in Hawaii) and - boom - their behalf. The characters are okay, nothing really bothers as in the second film. The lulls featuring the family back together and find a missing teenager. There is nothing wrong with a good story that.A unfairly maligned and well, there was an evening of entertainment.