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“Bloodstain” is an independen…

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 28th February 2010

“Bloodstain” is an independent cop film with production trouble in Eric M. Wolfson’s “Callback: The Unmaking of ‘Bloodstain,’ ” a loopy, over-the-top comedy about indie filmmaking and impossible dreams in Los Angeles.

Wolfson, a San Francisco native, has made a manic film with good production values, a snappy pace and an attractive cast - but, oh, that humor. Those who like films the cheesier the better will be served.

Basically, it’s about three wannabe actors and a director and how their incompatible personalities come together to make a film. Tony (Jeff Parise) is a schizophrenic recently released from a mental hospital who has stopped taking his meds; Peter (Johnny Moreno) is a heterosexual actor who takes a job at a gay phone sex line to make ends meet; Carl (Michael DeGood) is a no-talent street thug whose uncle is financing the film; and Marci (Kate Orsini) is directing her first feature, feeling the pressure and taking it out on everyone.

As corny as it is, there’s a nicely done climax that approached the worthiness of a standoff in a Hong Kong action film.

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Clash of the Wolves (1925)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 26th February 2010

“This was the tenth feature
film starring the biggest box office and most famous dog star of all time,
the German shepherd called Rin-Tin-Tin.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

This was the tenth feature film starring the biggest box office and
most famous dog star of all time, the German shepherd called Rin-Tin-Tin.
Lee Duncan was a corporal during the First World War who rescued Rin-Tin-Tin
in a French battlefield in 1918 and brought him to America for his long
film career, where he earned a weekly salary of $6,000 and had a career
that lasted until 1932. The film takes on the Androcles’ theme, when the
animal is shown love by mankind he responds in kind. 

There’s a forest fire in the High Sierras in California, and a pack
of famished wolves led by Lobo (Rin-Tin-Tin) come down to the desert town
to hunt for food. They disturb the local ranchers as they kill their cattle.
One of the ranchers is Sam Barstowe who objects to, May (June Marlowe),
his young single daughter’s romantic interest in loner tenderfoot borax
prospector Dave Weston (Charles Farrell).

When Lobo gets stuck in cactus thorns and can’t pull them out, he
leaves his mate Nanette for the desert fearing the other wolves would detect
his weakness and devour him. Dave spots his struggle and removes his thorns.
The grateful half-breed, part wolf and part dog, allows Dave to become
his master. Since there’s a $100 reward in town for Lobo, he’s disguised
with a fake detective beard tied by string on his lower jaw and his paws
are covered with laced leather shoes (the attempts at comedy were never
realized). 

The villain is posing as a chemist assayer named Borax Horton (Pat
Hartigan), who in reality is a claim-jumper. He attacks Dave leaving him
badly wounded in a cave and steals his claim. It’s up to Lobo to alert
May and save the day. There’s a terrific scene of a pack of wolves chasing
down the villain fleeing on horseback across the desert, as he gets his
comeuppance. 

If you ever care to see a flick that had all the endearing qualities
that made “Rinty” so lovable and famous, this one is it. The film’s only
weakness was the lame comedy performed by Alkali Bill (Heinie Conklin),
the comic foil character who worked on the Barstowe ranch as a chaperone
for May.

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Final Destination 2 review

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 25th February 2010

I believe

"Final Destination"

(2000) was a widely misunderstood film. On its face, it seems to be a generic, unbelievable horror film about teens who get killed, with thin characters and wooden dialogue. Upon further examination, though, it becomes clear that the filmmakers — "X-Files" veterans James Wong and Glen Morgan — intended it that way. They want us to laugh with the film, not at it. Surely these guys, being responsible for many genre-defying episodes of a genre-defying TV series, know "lame horror flick" when they see one. "Final Destination" was not meant to be taken seriously, but as a wickedly dark spoof that, like "X-Files," successfully blended mockery of horror with actual horror. On that level, it was a decent piece of entertainment.

Now comes the depressing and obligatory sequel, made by new, inexperienced people, featuring almost none of the faces from the original, and using not a continuation of the first film's plot, but THE SAME PLOT, recast with different characters. It is wearisome to contemplate Hollywood's dearth of good ideas.

The story is that a teen-age girl named Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) foresees a horrific traffic accident in a vision, acts accordingly, and prevents the deaths of nine or 10 people who would have otherwise perished. But this messes with Death's design — when it's your time to go, it's your time to go — and soon Death, merry prankster that he is, begins killing off the survivors anyway, using increasingly elaborate and ghastly methods.

Kimberly knows what's going on. The near-accident occurred one year to the day after a teen-age boy foresaw a plane crash, got off, and spared the lives of several people, all of whom also died soon thereafter; this is what happened in the first "Final Destination." She seeks out Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the one person from that earlier incident to still be alive, though she has barricaded herself at a mental institution, safe from anything that could possibly kill her.

(This is a typical horror-film institution, by the way, all mist-enshrouded and featuring raving lunatics who yell things like, "Get ‘em off me!" when there's nothing on them.)

Clear decides to help Kimberly and her fellow survivors, who are quickly becoming convinced that Death IS after them, since sure enough, they're starting to drop like flies. They visit a creepy mortician (Tony Todd, from the first film), who gives them some ideas about how to escape Death once and for all.

The film is a copy of its predecessor, but a bad one. The plane crash vision in "Final Destination"? Whatever critics said about the film, they loved the sweaty terror of that well-produced sequence. The multi-car collision in "Final Destination 2"? OK, but marred by the over-use of fiery explosions, including a car that bursts into flames simply by having its top half — the half where the gas tank ISN'T — being sliced off.

More to the point, the aforementioned attitude of the first film is gone here, like maybe the new filmmakers didn't even get it, much less were able to duplicate it. Where "FD1" was full of subtle visual clues foretelling characters' deaths, and the use of "Rocky Mountain High" as a constant harbinger of doom, "FD2" manages one or two lame hints then gives up.

There is no atmosphere. This sequel, a deliciously stupid 90 minutes of outrageousness, actually is all the things that those who misunderstood its predecessor thought IT was. It's lame and obvious, though I will say that at least it's never boring. As far as bad movies go, this is a great one.

Grade: D+

Rated R, abundant harsh profanity, brief non-sexual nudity, a lot of blood and gore

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A Stolen Life (1946)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 23rd February 2010

Identical twins, one-liner a shy artist, the other a predatory gink-snatcher are in POSSLQ = ‘Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters’ with the still and all darbies, who happens to be married to the artist. Academy Award Nominations: Rout Special Effects.

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The Great Moment (1944)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 18th February 2010

The superfluous Sturges mist out, a more or less serious biopic of WTG Morton, the Boston dentist who accidentally discovered the abuse of ether as an anaesthetic in 1846, receiving neither eminence nor fortune as a compensation proper for this bad checking to humanity. But Sturges couldn’t be momentous appropriate for long, and though telling a basically ill-omened tall tale (like the superstar of The Great McGinty, Morton ruined himself through an individual ‘great moment’ of charitable impulse), he injects some delightful doses of slapstick and verbal hunger for, while using members of his inventory visitors in very unexpected ways. Recut by the studio and generally considered to be a failure, it’s nevertheless an oddly touching screen that sticks obstinately and agreeably in the mind.

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Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 16th February 2010

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Dot the I (2005) : Drama, Rom…

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 14th February 2010

Punctually the I (2005)
: Theatre arts, Romance, Thriller/Suspense
: 1 hr. 32 min.
: Charlie Cox, Gael García Bernal, James D'Arcy, Natalia Verbeke, Tom Fearless,
: Matthew Parkhill
: George Duffield, Meg Thomson
: Artisan Entertainment, Culmination Production

Let off Date
: January 18,2003

Writer

: Matthew Parkhill

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On the night before of her juncture to a caring, filthy rich, and boring Englishman named Barnaby, Carmen, a Spanish, kisses an enticing stranger named Kit. Since that kiss, Carmen cannot get Kit distant of her mind. As the marriage ceremony day comes absolutely soon, she puts herself in the curse of idolize triangle. She finds comfort in Barnaby, but it is Kit's say farewell to that lights up the sparks within her.

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The Four Feathers review

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 11th February 2010

“So-so TV
adaptation of A.E.W. Mason’s 1902 novel the “Sun Never Sets.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Don Sharp directs this so-so TV adaptation of A.E.W. Mason’s 1902
novel the “Sun Never Sets.” It’s the sixth version of the Mason tale put
to film that includes the 1921 silent and the 1939 version directed by
Zoltan Korda, which is the superior one in the whole litter. Gerald Di
Pego’s scripted film seems to be made for an American audience, as there
was no other logical reason to remake such a successful classic film. 

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In this British Empire epic set in the 19th century, the death of
British general “Chinese” Gordon at Khartoum encourages upper-crust gentleman
officer Harry Favershem (Beau Bridges) to active duty in the Sudan. On
the eve of the Sudan campaign Harry resigns his commission. Though not
a coward, Favershem fears that he’ll turn yellow in the face of battle
and let his comrades down. Three of his fellow officers are so appalled
at his decision that they each send Harry a white feather, the symbol of
cowardice. When a fourth feather is handed to Favershem by his fiancee
Ethne Eustace (Jane Seymour), Harry vows to prove himself in battle and
incognito as a mysterious adventurer embarks on a dangerous quest to save
the lives of his former comrades immersed in battle. In the end he personally
hands back the four feathers to his accusers. Plenty of wholesome action
amid exotic desert locales, as the action is fast and furious. 

This is an old-fashioned military movie about the ‘code of honor.’
Harry Andrews as Harry’s father gets to say “I doubt if a woman could understand.”
That sums up this rousing adventure film’s ethos, which is fancifully put
to screen in rich color.

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The Perfect Son review

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 9th February 2010

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Garfield the Movie (2004)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 7th February 2010

Garfield’s (voice of Reckoning Murray) shiftless, lasagna-led lifestyle at the home of his bachelor owner Jon (Breckin Meyer) is rudely interrupted when Jon blunders his way into accepting a stray dog, Oldie, from the local vet, Liz (Jennifer Girl Hewitt) for the benefit of whom Jon pines. Garfield at first rejects the ‘dumb dog’ but is somehow drawn to the likeable, undemanding mutt - who gets lost and is dognapped by tv show hostess Happy Chapman (Stephen Tobolowsky) in a evil scheme to be the spitting image him to the top of the ratings. Garfield sets out to recoup and rescue Odie. Jon and Liz keep up with gratify, and their romance is the think twice for it.

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