Posted by Notcot on Apr 20, 2010 in
Cult Film
Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (2 Reviews)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Often mentioned as a contender for the title of Worst Movie Ever Made, Glen or Glenda? (a.k.a. I Changed My Sex, a.k.a. I Led Two Lives, a.k.a. He or She) remains Ed Wood’s weirdest film–and, for the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space, that’s saying something. Yet Glen or Glenda? goes way beyond camp, into some unique zone of demented personal expression, an essay/collage/autobiography that is no less fascinating just because it comes from a second-rate mind. Wood himself, under the pseudonym Daniel Davis, plays a transvestite struggling to reveal his tendencies to his wife (the toneless Dolores Fuller, Wood’s missus in real life). Mixed in with this exploitation story is a tonne of irrelevant stock footage, as well as disconnected glimpses of Béla Lugosi bellowing at the audience; Lugosi’s dialogue is a tapestry of non sequiturs and portentous warnings. The behind-the-scenes creation of Glen or Glenda? forms part of the action of Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s affectionate tribute to the B-movie master. Wood himself was a transvestite, which accounts for the cracked sincerity of Glen or Glenda?; the passion for angora sweaters is real, not a fluffy plot device. Truly a flabbergasting 68 minutes in film history. –Robert Horton
Glen or Glenda
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 19, 2010 in
Cult Film
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 16, 2010 in
Cult Film
Average Rating: 5.0 / 5 (9 Reviews)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theatre show was the ground zero for their talents. Kentucky Fried Movie is a mish-mash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme–except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humour. Highlights include a commercial for “Scot Free”, a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy; “The Wonderful World of Sex”, in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self-help narrator instructing them step-by-step; and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled “A Fistful of Yen”. Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punchline, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film’s initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble”.) Directed by then-unknown John Landis (who went on to make The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London) on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when this funny, is forever. –Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
Kentucky Fried Movie
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 13, 2010 in
Noir
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 13, 2010 in
Noir
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 8, 2010 in
Noir
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 8, 2010 in
Portable Sound & Vision
Average Rating: 2.5 / 5 (16 Reviews)
Product Description
With 3D TV and cinema set to take off in the next year or two, soon everyone will want to get in on the action with their very own pair of 3D glasses! 3D movies are already making their way onto DVD and now you can watch them in style thanks to these fantastic 3D glasses.
With red and blue lenses, the 3D glasses have plastic frames much like sunglasses. Why bother with flimsy cardboard movie glasses when you can use these 3D glasses over and over again! Watch characters and images leap out of the screen in the ultimate comfort.
3D Glasses are plastic framed glasses with 1 red lens and 1 blue lens
Ideal for 3D games, movies and pictures!
They measure approx 13.5 cm x 4 cm x 17 cm with arms out
Great gifts for ages 6 to 160!
PLEASE NOTE: The glasses used in modern cinema films use different technology and not blue/ red layers. These glasses will not work in the cinema using the new technology and are designed for DVD’s, videos and images.
No more awkward balancing on your nose! These 3D movie glasses fit like standard frames, giving you a great fit. Treat your family to some 3D glasses and watch your favourite 3D movies, video games and images with carefully tuned, optical 3D lenses.
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3D Glasses
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 6, 2010 in
Noir
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 6, 2010 in
Photography
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Posted by Notcot on Mar 30, 2010 in
Cult Film
Average Rating: / 5 ( Reviews)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it’s probably unfair to complain that it hasn’t got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers without a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer–which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram–fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film’s need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It’s tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate. — Kim Newman
Resident Evil
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