Exam
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This small-scale British thriller is already drawing comparisons to the low budget cult thriller Cube with its claustrophobic setup and cube shaped room. How do I think this movie will end? Pile of corpses + Benny Hill theme music.
Hobo With A Shotgun (Red Band)
Release Date: 2011
I’m not going to go as far as saying this could be the best movie ever made, but it very well could be the best movie ever made. There, I said it.
Because this site is fairly movie-based, we seldom get around to recommending books. I feel as though this series merits a recommendation though, because with the third and final book released only weeks ago, a movie adaption of The Hunger Games is already on its way, and it will only be a matter of time before kids think this is another book based on a movie.
In its simplest explanation, The Hunger Games series is Harry Potter meets Battle Royale. But that is a pretty crude summarization. The actual synopsis reads as follows:
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games.” The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat’s sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
Monsters
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Monsters, an ultra low-budget monster pic reportedly made for only $15,000, has a Cloverfield in Mexico feel that has critics boasting that it is the next Blair Witch Project. I don’t know about this one. I want to like what I see, but it bothers me that the first time I saw this trailer, it was playing on a preview loop at Best Buy a couple of months ago, which is not the place I look for promising upcoming releases. Also, I seriously doubt the production budget was only $15,000.
127 Hours
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Based on the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who had his armed pinned under a boulder for 127 grueling hours, this Danny Boyle directed drama promises to be more than a James Franco revenge fantasy. All I know, is that a movie that is 95% James Franco with his hand trapped under a rock, will probably once and for all answer the question, can James Franco act or does he just have really good hair?
Despite the collective wails and protests from the orphan community of Washington DC, Strasmas has been canceled for all of next year after it was revealed that Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg would have to undergo Tommy John surgery after sustaining an elbow injury.
Strasmas, the nickname given to the days when Strasburg took the mound for the Nationals, adopted a sort of mythic quality as the ace gave the team the first set of sellouts for their $611 million stadium and virtually doubled ticket sales for the year. And even though management watched his pitch counts and slowly brought him along in the minors, it wasn’t enough to keep Strasburg from sustaining a serious injury and in the process, ruining Strasmas for everyone.
Continue reading ‘Despite Pleas From Orphans, Strasmas Cancelled For Next Year’
So, somewhere in the recent Segal/Van Damme podcast that was done for this site, we missed a gem of a movie known as Hard Target. Hard Target is a Van Damme film where he plays a cajun with a super mullet named Chance Boudreaux, who is some sort of transient dock worker who knows martial arts. Sure, whatever.
The movie is best known for being Hong Kong action director John Woo’s first stateside film and also for being the movie where Jean-Claude Damme punches a snake in the head, which needless to say, is a great piece of cinema. Everyone should watch the scene. It’s at the 2:45 mark on the video below or you can watch the whole scene in its entirety here. I guarantee it will brighten your day, because it’s so dumb, you can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all, and that’s really what makes movies like this worth watching.
Continue reading ‘Jean-Claude Van Damme Doesn’t Care If You’re Poisonous, Snake!’
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I’m confident this will be the greatest documentary series ever created. It will be airing on Sky1 (The UK’s equivalent of Fox) starting in September and now we in America are tasked with finding new and creative ways to pirate British television. I’m banking on someone in the UK streaming it live on Justin TV. If not, I’m moving to England to see this one.
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