Comments

sort by
Recent
Reset
  • PalmerEldritch
    Joined:
    Boyhood
    Saw "Boyhood" this afternoon. Great movie. Probably Linklater's best movie, which is saying a lot. This one lives up to the hype. Don't miss it.
  • slo lettuce
    Joined:
    Godzirra!...
    (sorry, couldn't help it :) Had to go see this with Dolby Surround 7. Saw the 2D show and the special effects were spectacular. I loved this story when I saw it originally as a little kid and the story in this updated version is definitely worthy of admission. As usual, Godzilla is a total badass and in this episode he(?)wakes from the depths to wreak havoc on two other freaks of nature. Good stuff! Spoiler alert: Insurance policies are pointless and property owners in Honolulu and Oakland really take it in the shorts, so to speak.
  • PalmerEldritch
    Joined:
    Oscar!
    I really think that this has been a great year for movies. I can't remember the last time I felt that way. I saw "Inside Llewelyn Davis", "Nebraska", "Her", "Blue Jasmine", and "American Hustle" and I loved all of them. Come on peeps, cynicism aside, it's been a great year for movies!
  • Anna rRxia
    Joined:
    Elysium
    There is a constant theme in Science Fiction that I am noticing these days. The plot goes something like this: Human beings have used up the natural resources on the Earth until it is a wasteland due to different circumstances such as global warming. In Elysium a paradise in the form of space satellite/station with lush vegetation and artificial environment and robots serve an upper class population who have between able to make the hop between the two bodies. There is strict immigration control and homeland Security for the Space Station. Life on Earth is a somewhat less than an apocalyptic hell, but almost there. This theme is quite old, it just has different wrinkles in it these days. This version gets a B- for the updates.
  • Anna rRxia
    Joined:
    Runaway Jury
    I just bought the John Grisham Box set and glad I did. I never saw the theatrical release of this movie until now. This is an excellent movie about the gun industry and the dirty tricks they engage in to keep themselves absolved of responsibility of irresponsible gun proliferation in this country. The scenes where Gene Hackman, as a jury specialist for the gun lobby, raises millions of dollars from the CEOs of the major gun-makers who explicitly know they are buying a jury and the scene where the opposition lawyer, Dustin Hiffman, asks Hackman how he will feel at the end of his days when he is surrounded by the ghosts of dead gun victims are not in the expurgated TV versions and are especially poignant. Hackman's answer to Hofman about the ghosts is revealing: "I know I'll be surrounded by those ghosts but I don't give a shit and I never did." I write this today because in another part of this site somebody wrote yesterday that everybody should receive a Remington shotgun for Christmas this year, any make, any model. Their intent was to say there is bonding that goes on between father and son or elder and younger. I understand that. But I also understand that, living in the North Woods as I have for 25 years, there are around 100 death-resulting hunting accidents that happen every year in NY-NJ-New England States, not to mention the problem of hunter's hunting on posted land. That movie and that comment has me thinking about walking in the woods again this deer season. Don't just think twice, don't do it if you know it is hunting season and you value your life. Wal-Mart is just itching to sell you that Remington and ammo at a dirt cheap price and gun makers will never be held responsible.
  • Anna rRxia
    Joined:
    The Nine Lives Of Marion Barry
    An excellent film available on the net for viewing. It shows how Marrion Barry, former mayor of Washington DC got set up by the Feds for smoking crack with a ho. The film chronicles Marion Barry's comeback bid for re-election as mayor. Topical in the sense of Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford now in similar circumstances.
  • Randall Lard
    Joined:
    bark up a tree and get leaves in your mouth
    Maja S. K. Ratkje Sculpting With Sound VOICE – SCULPTING SOUND WITH MAJA RATKJE is not only a portrait of the singular musician and singer, but also explores the sound and nature of the human voice in all its facets. The film accompanies Ratkje as she composes and improvises in various constellations, in the studio, for example, while recording the next album of her quartet Spunk and new CDs of her compositions, which are being produced for Rune Grammofon and for John Zorn’s famous Tzadik record label. There will also be footage from concerts such as Passing Images in Bruges or with the trio Poing in Oslo. In addition, Biermann wants to give an insight into the work Ratkje does on her own back home in Norway, as well as including family moments with her two small children. Citing directors Thomas Riedelsheimer and Claire Denis as inspirational for the making of this film, Biermann explains that he is aiming to make 2a sensual film, with images for the big screen. Images one can dive into. A film about this woman, her overwhelming creative spirit and her passion which appeals and touches us all. A sensual and unexpected journey into the world of voices and sounds with the complex means of cinema.” Apart VOICE and NOCTURNE, Biermann is also currently working on a third documentary, ZEHN FRAUEN, which portrays ten women artists. Director Ingo J. Biermann Screenplay Ingo J. Biermann Director of Photography Kai Miedendorp Cast Maja Solvei Kjelstrup Ratkje, Frode Haltli, Spunk, Kathy Hinde, Trondheim Sinfonietta, Garth Knox, Arve Henriksen, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori Producer Andreas Louis Co-Producers Solveig Arnesen, Ingo J. Biermann Production Company Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), in co-production with Genesis Film/Hausgesund, IJB/Berlin Original Version English, Norwegian Shooting Dates March 2010-Summer 2011 With backing from German Federal Film Board, Filmkraft Rogaland http://www.ratkje.com/
  • Anna rRxia
    Joined:
    SSDD Just got it!
    And Jerry I; II; III. Opened up an Amazon Visa and got the 4 for $44. What a deal!
  • Randall Lard
    Joined:
    Adderbury Tales
    Way Of The Morris

    WAY OF THE MORRIS: Official Trailer 1 (HD) from Way Of The Morris on Vimeo.

    For These Are The Lands Of My Forefathers And These Are The Dances Of My Ancestors

    WAY OF THE MORRIS: Official Trailer 2 (HD) from Way Of The Morris on Vimeo.

    A heartfelt ode to agrarian roots and rural brotherhood, 'Way Of The Morris' follows award-winning filmmaker Tim Plester on a journey from the English village greens of his childhood to the killing fields of the Somme, as he searches for a connection with the much-maligned native dances that run deep in his blood. Written & Presented by Tim Plester Directed & Produced by Tim Plester & Rob Curry Director of Photography Richard Mitchell Editor Jono Griffith Composer Adrian Corker Sound Design & Mix by Reelsound, Pinewood Studios Executive Producer Colin Teague Featuring Billy Bragg / Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention) & The Adderbury Village Morris Men http://www.wayofthemorris.com/ http://www.adderburymorris.org.uk/Adderbury.Morris/Adderbury.html
  • Randall Lard
    Joined:
    Electronics Without Tears
    Practical Electronica - The Sound World Of F.C. Judd

    Practical Electronica: A Trailer from Public Information on Vimeo.

    A trailer for Ian Helliwell's 2011 Documentary about an important and previously untold link in the history of early British Electronic Music. If you are interested in hosting a screening for Practical Electronica please contact : ianhelliwell@yahoo.co.uk ianhelliwell.co.uk/ http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/practical_electronica.htm http://vimeo.com/channels/helliwell http://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-794-ian-helliwell.html
user picture

Member for

16 years 10 months
Forums
Let's talk movies!!
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

all vids were for YOU rider. all 4 YOU. love&peace&peace&love p.s. foosball is for mooks.
user picture

Member for

16 years 5 months
Permalink

of course they were! :) ha ha ! Mystery & legend surround that Ol' Attorney ( wasn't he a bit obsessed with Barbara) ??. His name has slipped my mind. Hope he's where the climate suits his clothes anyhow :) I've got an interview on CD somewhere in the rubble, gonna have to dig it up ..... PEACE
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

I can dream of j.... can't I? (without the belly button is much sexier) *** not yet, still rubbing ben gay (not that there's anything worng with that) on the bum hip. a lawyer? shit, enough people hate me. AND, I never passed a BAR in my life without stopping in for a couple of drinks... still waiting on that rider footfetish 'she's got bells on her toes' DVD... talking about movies, that is. ON topic, as ever here in deadland. ( -: peace.
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

never a lawyer, nor an attorney, but, however, ever so often a 'solicitor' read into that what you will. ( -; (getting old, forgot to include that joke in the previous post-- or blame Carlo Rossi) peace.
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

thanks for the hunter clips ccjoe. that man is still one of my heroes.nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

my pleasure gypsy. *** watch your local 'Straight to Video, Video shop' in a nighbourhood near you for: 'The Tie-Dyed Atache Case' the true life story of cc the 'solicitor' international scoundral ... a treatment under consideration in some lesser known indie Hollywoodland studios. (you heard it here first) ( -; peace.
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

.that is definitely on my must buy list, if you are serious. heck, even if you are not nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

14 years 4 months
Permalink

I don't know why i love this.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Couldn't let this one go by... Jerry & Hunter are alike in some ways, different in others. They were both artists and they both took their own lives, which is a controversial and radical expression of freedom. To say that Jerry didn't know he was taking his own life at some point in the 20 years he was using is ridiculous. Is that the distinction you are trying to make? Please PM me on this if you'd like to reply, most people have no appetite for this subject.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

George Clooney will probably win an Oscar for his role as a corporate exec. who flies around the country firing people. His goal in life? To accumulate 10,000,000 frequent flyer miles. It is a very witty and sophisticated comedy. The people he fires are played by people who have been recently laid off from their jobs. This whole movie is really quite poignant and very good. One of the best I've seen in the last 5 years.
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

At one point, a "prophet" named Benjamen Creem say's: "God told me to watch in the window. the're was a carB.M. and you got in the car? B.C. Yes" Sound familiar to me. lmao, Richard.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Samuel L. Jackson fans will love this one. The movie is a thriller about a terrorist who plants a number of nuclear bombs around the country in the major cities, exactly what number is the main question. The movie has several statements to make about fighting terrorism in general: Who the players are Who has the moral high-ground: Are both warring parties on the same level?? How far are the players willing to go to accomplish their missions? This is a movie you watch from start to finish without stopping, or at least hitting the pause button. Highly recommended if you are into action thrillers that are well done and leave you thinking afterward.
user picture

Member for

14 years 7 months
Permalink

A great film from 1990 (I think) w/ Tim Robbins. Very underated and highly recommended.
user picture

Member for

14 years 7 months
Permalink

I remember feeling sorry for Jacob Singer and then really happy for the guy once I figured it all out. Having eaten a couple of bad ones in my day, I realized it could have been alot worse. This film really spoke to me at the time. ( Can't remember why?). I think this was Mackuly Culkin's first role.
user picture

Member for

14 years 7 months
Permalink

....to me, if I want to laugh I'll throw on "Blazing Saddles" or "Life of Brian". My two favorites. I wonder what would have happened had Mel Brookes teamed up with Monty Python? Mmmm...
user picture

Member for

16 years 8 months
Permalink

Have any of you seen an environmental documentary called "The Cove"? About a guy trying to save dolphins from being slaugtered in a bay in Japan?? My animal-loving almost 13 year old is asking to see it on tv tonight, but I am not sure whether this is a good idea.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
user picture

Member for

16 years 10 months
Permalink

but I think it's pretty gory and somehow I think your 13 year old already knows that slaughtering dolphins is not so swell.
user picture

Member for

16 years 10 months
Permalink

filter for the fact that my gore tolerance is just about zero.
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

America's finest actor or a guy with a real problem? Made me laugh ....and sort of therapeutic
user picture

Member for

16 years 8 months
Permalink

is pretty much how I feel today********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

13 years 4 months
Permalink

It was funny!!!
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

13 years 7 months
Permalink

Pineapple express!!!!!
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

13 years 2 months
Permalink

Then check out "A Wild American Forest" narrated by Susan Sarandon. It's a film about the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion which straddles the Oregon-California border and where I've lived for the past 25 years. Check it out and then come visit ! Walk you in the tall trees
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Just saw this particular version for the first time. Had me rockin' even though I didn't attend. Fell in love with '69 Grace Slick. Triple Scorpio with those piercing blue eyes! Janis Joplin with the crazy quilt stargown. Wavy Gravy's announcements from the stage. Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner>Voodoo Chile (I think) ~ Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks sir ~
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Soldier Of The Road - a film about Peter Brötzmann. "This film came out of an irrepressible desire to hear Peter Brötzmann's music live, to record his sounds as he crafted them, to film the energy and the freedom of this man. I knew the old vinyl covers he had designed as well as his posters, but the discovery of his painting was a revelation, Above all, as we discussed, enjoying a good cigare, I discoverd a sensitive, open minded man. It was a privilege..."
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

A variation on the mad scientist theme. Modern pharma hires bright young DNA splicers to create new life and come up with life saving medicines. They create Dren, a humanoid creature that can be aquatic or avian when the need suits and has many other attributes as well, like being able to change sex. Which she does and has sex with the boy-friend, girl friend couple who are the splicers. Worth seeing but the morality play part (big corporation toys with life for profit) is weak in this movie to concentrate on the main character.
user picture

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

Riveting! I feel as though I knew this man my entire life yet we never met and I never saw him perform. An acquaintance over on rottentomatoes (as well all three of my sons) turned me onto Bill Hicks a few years back and my life changed for the better ... I no longer felt alone. I also really like "Sane Man".
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. always a stretch to challenge the '79 adaption with Alec Guinness. but with a superb Director in Tomas Alfredson; Let The Right One, yes the original Swedish film, not the pointless American remake. are U.S. citizens really so dumb that a language outside of English, a cinematic production with subtitles is so completely incomprehensible? Remember: SUBSTANCE OVER STYLE. digression in the rear view mirror. nicely paced, nicely shot and nice sound. not exceptional, but anything with Gary Oldman has a certain gravitas. and Kathy Burke is always a treasure. dominates any scene she's in.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

from the mind of Hunter S Thompson. Johnny Depp plays Hunter not so well in this book that was not so good. Trying to squeeze every last dollar out of the estate, eh? The movie opens 10/28
user picture

Member for

16 years 10 months
Permalink

Johnny Depp reading the phone book is probably worth the price of admission, but still.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

i wonder if he'd read it in a faux kooky 'I'm eccentric, me' exaggerated dead dull void like tone?talent deserted long ago, producing visual ennui while the crowds gawp on in pleasure, drowsily spooning mouthfuls of congealing nachos into their glistening chops. Depp's recent films represent untertainment at it's finest and will be warmly welcomed by anyone who regularly sits in front of the screen with a loaded shotgun in their mouth, trying to pluck up the courage.
user picture

Member for

16 years 10 months
Permalink

the last time I set foot in the local multiplex was for the Dead movie screening. They're not going to get my money for this. But there's nothing wrong with being fun to watch, and luckily Johnny Depp can make the phone book fun to watch. You want high art, this is probably not your movie.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Oh, it doesn't have to be high art!! I like my candyfloss fluff too!I just don't like candyfloss fluff dressed as high art. Still, nice cheek bones though. I would.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

The karma you will suffer is pollution of your work in the future lives. We don't want spam.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

a documentary by visionary filmmaker Jan Kounen.the heart of the Shipibo Shamans.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland & various others team up on a witty, fast-paced comedy about three white guys in LA trying to kill their bosses. How they managed to make this plot very good is beyond me. Great acting, production values and blooper reel at the end.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

unrelentingly grim but another astonishing performance by Tom Hardy.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

great documentary film on the history of surfing.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

beautiful short film "Poleaxed", written, directed and part filmed by the always impeccable Helen Petts.A meditation on stillness and perception following a road accident and subsequent illness. A contemplation of her life over the course of a year in her local park. Part 1 - Part 2 - Helen Petts is an extraordinary artist. She often collaborates with musicians, as well as running a Youtube channel devoted to free improvised music and is co-promoter of the Mopomoso series of free improvisation concerts with guitarist John Russell. She is currently making a film about Kurt Schwitters for a solo exhibition at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle to open on the 21st June 2012. www.helenpetts.com www.youtube.com/helentonic http://www.youtube.com/mopomoso Schwitters project blog - http://helenpetts.tumblr.com/
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

"I dance because I believe I can furnish something for my time in the next stage." Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Company. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 -