Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on October 17th, 2003
Just before the release of their eponymous second album, Portishead gathered at the historical Roseland Ballroom for their first ever performance in New York City. The band brought a film crew along for this special concert. It was a show that featured not only the first performance of much of the new album, but also the added attraction of playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The result is a brilliant and haunting presentation of all things Portishead. This legendary disc should be required viewing for ...ll fans of trip-hop, and for film students everywhere.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 17th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 16th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on October 16th, 2003
“Let’s go kick some Christmas butt!” When these are the climactic words spoken by Santa Claus prior to his Christmas Eve trip using a flying ice cream truck instead of his sleigh, you know you’re in trouble. A Freezerburnt Christmas is easily the worst Christmas movie I have ever seen and would challenge any reader to find a worse holiday film. Even though it is only 22 minutes long, I was frustrated by the fact that I’m never going to get those 22 minutes back. This was a stop-motion cartoon but let’s face it – the...classics were stop-motion “Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman” to name two, but they were classics because they were made in the 60’s and stop-motion may have reached perfection at that point…almost 40 years ago!
<p Freezerburnt is an ice cream vendor that happens upon a plan by an evil toy tycoon to oust Santa and supply the world’s children with toys made by his company. As it happens the tycoon’s name is Sualc Atnas (otherwise known as Santa Claus backwards…ouch…they actually paid someone to come up with this stuff) and has a striking resemblance to Sadam Hussein. I don’t know if that was intentional or not but it’s pretty bad. Anyways Atnas breaks into the local science professor’s home and steals his prototype gravity generator to use it to ground Santa’s reindeer. How diabolical! He then wants to get Santa’s magic flying powder to use his own vehicle to disperse his toys on Christmas Eve.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on October 16th, 2003
“Say hello to my little friend!”
This is just one of the many cultural references that have come out of Brian DePalma’s 1983 epic film, Scarface. Al Pacino plays Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee that arrives in the United States with nothing, and leaves with everything. It’s a story about the American Dream, about excess, and about ambition. A fantastic supporting cast (including Michelle Pfeiffer, F. Murray Abraham and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and a script by Oliver Stone makes Scarface one of the...greatest gangster films of all time.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 15th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 15th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 15th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 15th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 14th, 2003
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