”I am the great traitor. There must be no other.”
A despicable tale of despicable men let loose in a despicable jungle as they slowly drift towards their inevitable demise, Aguirre, the Wrath of God is as much a repudiation of the evils of colonialism as it is a darkly comic examination of hollow futility of man’s hubris. Werner Herzog is certainly no stranger to stories about addled and deranged men and their mangled lives, such stories comprising a notable…
And what would a note say, Dan? 'Cat dead; details later'?
Re-Animator is, undoubtedly, a cheap and nasty little film. The maiden directorial effort from avant-garde theatre producer Stuart Gordon, it catapulted its star Jeffrey Combs into the haunted halls of horror legend and set the tone and the standard for every B horror film that followed. As a genre piece it is nothing short of perfection, both in how it honestly and earnestly presents its scares and gore with…
The Pink Flamingo Cinema’s EVEN DEATH MAY DIE
Fantastically paced for the full two hours that it is, Samurai Reincarnation looks incredible in its new restoration and plays incredibly for an audience. A lot of genuine laughs at the more direct pulp moments like the nudity but also genuinely enrapturing portions where Fukasaku’s command of the mis-en-scene results in scenes that have the perfect amount of depth and detail for their purposes.
The Expendables 2 is better than the first due it it leaning further in to the obsequiousness to the tenets and stars of ‘80s and ‘90s action schlock, but it’s altogether not all that much of an improvement. Van Damme is definitely a more fun and engaging villain than Eric Roberts or Stone Cold Steve Austin were, and he and Scott Adkins are given a lot to do physically which enhances their presence in the makeup of the film greatly,…
Sydney Film Festival 2024
Competent and even sometimes downright impressive craft covering up a bafflingly brain dead script that turns into gore covered slapstick of its lead before trailing on into a half hour death spiral. Coralie Fargeat core tenet’s of The Substance start off as an exploration of women’s youth and beauty being a fleeting commodity in an image focused world and then fall apart to the most basic and churlish critique of egoism that can be mustered. Trying…
The Pink Flamingo Cinema
Special Premiere Screening
I'm technically a distributor of this film so I'm not going to rate it, but I will say that I loved it and a majority of the audience loved it as well. Fantastic tonal balance between the poised exploration of the historical combat between the colonists and the land they've colonised and some good old fashioned genre madness with sex and death dispensed in steady supply.
It got a round of applause and two walkouts, and if thats not the sign of impactful cinema I don't know what is.
