Jawbreaker, the influential post-hardcore band who notched the Number Four album on Rolling Stone’s 40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time with 1995’s Dear You, are now the subject of a documentary that is finally getting a wide release.
Filmmakers first teased the picture, Don’t Break Down, two years ago but it hasn’t been available. That will change on August 6th when it goes up for sale on Amazon, Google Play, and iTunes; it will also be streamable via Amazon Prime. It will also get a theatrical screening tomorrow at Louisville,...
Filmmakers first teased the picture, Don’t Break Down, two years ago but it hasn’t been available. That will change on August 6th when it goes up for sale on Amazon, Google Play, and iTunes; it will also be streamable via Amazon Prime. It will also get a theatrical screening tomorrow at Louisville,...
- 7/25/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Review: Tim Irwin. Jean-Pierre Jeunet hasn't done a great deal since his masterpiece Amélie in 2001. There was A Very Long Engagement in 2004, but that was a bit of a departure in tone; more serious and romantic than whimsical and fantastic. Now, with Micmacs, Jeunet is back to his old form, proving once again that his attention to detail and visual aesthetic have virtually no peers in cinema today. Before the opening credits a man dies courtesy of a landmine. He's a Frenchman, surveying some ground that has been littered with deadly ordinance. His family takes the news rather badly, but these sombre scenes are filled with Jeunet's touch of the absurd and the morbidly skewed, reminiscent of Amélie's suicidal goldfish. This man's son grows up with a set of problems, told in rapid montage, Jeunet-style. Eventually the kid is a grown-up layabout, working in a video store...
- 8/6/2010
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Director: Christopher Nolan. Review: Tim Irwin. In twenty, thirty, maybe fifty years only the filmographies of a few contemporary directors will be regarded as classics. I would venture to say that Christopher Nolan’s output between 2000 and 2010 will be counted among those. Rarely has a filmmaker been so consistent throughout six of his first seven films; rarely has one been able to examine similar themes through so many different lenses. Starting with Memento, dipping to the relative low point of Insomnia, itself a remake, and then continuing with the two best Batman movies and a stellar drama about magicians, The Prestige (and this doesn’t even count the capable Following, made in the late 1990′s). Inception is the culmination of those themes, told in a story Christopher and his brother Jonathan have been brooding over for many years. Rarely is a film that is so inextricably intertwined with a particular...
- 7/16/2010
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Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura/Naoyuki Tomomatsu Review: Tim Irwin Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is everything you could hope for from a movie with that title, and so much more. It is a fantastic mix of Tokyo ore Police and Postal, the most offensive Japanese movie I've ever seen, and an absolute blast to watch. The opening scene squares off Vampire Girl with a trio of bizarre Japanese schoolgirls who seem to be assembled from a variety of body parts. Vampire Girl soon disassembles them, going so far as to "unwrap" one of their heads, leaving a spinning, bloody skull. There are showers of blood, and it becomes immediately clear that Yoshihiro Nishimura, who did the makeup effects for Tokyo Gore Police and Hard Revenge Milly, was involved with the production. Here Nishimura is co-helming the film with Naoyuki Tomomatsu, who directed Zombie Self-Defense Force. After the initial sequence the film...
- 4/27/2010
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Director: Sean Tretta. Review: Tim Irwin. Back in 2003 a few guys got together to make a small movie. Director Sean Tretta rounded up a little money, about $3,000, and crafted a story of a serial killer who enjoyed making films. The man, named William Allen Grones (Mike Marsh), fancied himself a director, setting up scenarios where he could document the kidnapping and imprisonment of two young ladies before killing them on camera. The Great American Snuff Film purports to be the true story of Grones' crimes, re-enacted and dramatized. Then, the story goes, new interview footage surfaced of Grones before his execution. Tretta evidently cut this new footage into the old film, making it five minutes longer, and has now released it as The Greatest American Snuff Film. The movie's strongest selling point is that the filmmakers have created a fiction surrounding Grones, calling him one of the worst serial killers to never get any publicity.
- 4/24/2010
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Director: Takuji Kitamura. Review: Tim Irwin. Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge is a rather charming romantic drama/coming-of-age film, gorgeously shot on some fabulous locations. Young Yosuke (played by pretty-boy Hayato Ichihara) is a fairly typical high school kid. He lives in a boarding school, goes to class, has a couple of close friends, and is fairly apathetic about life. His coolest friend, Noto (Yôsuke Asari), dies in a motorcycle accident, leaving Yosuke confused about life. He can never be as cool as Noto (Yôsuke Asari), a kid who runs the laps received as punishment for being tardy in double-time. A kid so cool he can't stand to see two rival gangs face off only to have their leaders apologize to one another, forcing him to take on both gangs simultaneously. A kid so cool that he drives his motorcycle very fast, not caring whether there might be a car around the next corner.
- 3/31/2010
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Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu. Review: Tim Irwin. Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. It is campy, gruesome fun, and interesting as a predecessor to the shock films that Japan has been producing recently, ranging from Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl to Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, but it is not a good film. And honestly, who would expect a film with this title to be good? And would anyone seek it out if they weren't anticipating gory, campy, science fiction? The story combines elements of post-apocalyptic films, zombie infection, and a singular female hero who is a war machine. As the movie opens there is a large meteor heading toward earth, where it proceeds to collide with Tokyo Bay. The heat from the impact creates a vast cloud of steam that forms a shield around Tokyo,...
- 2/28/2010
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Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu. Review: Tim Irwin. Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. It is campy, gruesome fun, and interesting as a predecessor to the shock films that Japan has been producing recently, ranging from Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl to Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, but it is not a good film. And honestly, who would expect a film with this title to be good? And would anyone seek it out if they weren't anticipating gory, campy, science fiction? The story combines elements of post-apocalyptic films, zombie infection, and a singular female hero who is a war machine. As the movie opens there is a large meteor heading toward earth, where it proceeds to collide with Tokyo Bay. The heat from the impact creates a vast cloud of steam that forms a shield around Tokyo,...
- 2/28/2010
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Director: Takanori Tsujimoto. Review Tim Irwin. Milly is back, in a slightly longer story than her previous outing, Hard Revenge Milly. ’Bloody Battle’ is about twice as long as the first movie and still a wonderfully short feature, clocking in at just over 70 minutes. The perfect length to tell a quick story, provide some action, and not dawdle on the way. This second instalment takes the opportunity to expound on the subjects and characters in the first movie. There is a short recap at the beginning, for those who may not have seen Hard Revenge Milly. It isn't necessary to have seen the first to enjoy the second, but some of the plot points will be more easily understood. This time around, more is learned about Milly and her strange cybernetic body as she attempts to protect herself from another roving band of killers.
- 2/6/2010
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Director: Takanori Tsujimoto. Review Tim Irwin. It's a shame, in some ways, that films of this length are not commercially viable on their own. Hard Revenge Milly clocks in a mere 43 minutes. Discount credits and the film is barely 35 minutes long. You would have good reason to ask why I might review such a short film, and the answer is simple. The DVD from Well Go USA contains both Hard Revenge Milly and its sequel, Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle. Together they clock in at a respectable two hours, meaning that the sequel alone barely reaches feature length. But I like short films, often finding they offer a lot of value in a small package. Hard Revenge Milly is no exception, at least for fans of the new Japanese shock cinema. One of the primary selling points for the film is that the special effects were done by Yoshihiro Nishimura,...
- 1/20/2010
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Director: Isaac Florentine. Review: Tim Irwin. It’s hard to believe that two movies with the word Ninja in the title came out in the same year, and were both made in the same country. Indeed, while Ninja Assassin [reviewed here] went over the top with CGI blood and absurd violence, Ninja feels a little more credible in terms of story and characters. Granted, its primary ninja looks more like a cyborg assassin or Batman than a martial arts expert, but don’t let that detract from the experience. Scott Adkins stars as Casey Bowman, an American who has grown up in a dojo his whole life. I wasn’t familiar with Adkins either, but a quick glance at his filmography turns up small parts in blockbusters like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Bourne Ultimatum, and the lesser-known Unleashed (starring Jet Li). Casey has spent his life studying martial arts, and as time...
- 12/23/2009
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Director: Lars von Trier Review: Tim Irwin. You’ve probably heard a lot about the controversy surrounding "Antichrist," about its graphic content and obscene images. It certainly is provocative in its imagery and does not shy away from graphically displaying certain acts, but unlike a generic exploitation film it offers much more. In addition to being artistically presented it is also one of the most terrifying movies I’ve seen in years. There are only two speaking roles in the entire film. They are credited as He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg). In the epilogue (named and titled, like all of the chapters in the film) they are busy fulfilling their marital duties. Unfortunately, they are too caught up in each other to notice their son as he steps out of the window and crashes to the ground. The entire scene is shot like an art film, entirely in slow motion black and white,...
- 12/19/2009
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Director: James McTeigue. Review: Tim Irwin. If the title of this movie interests you, I can almost guarantee you will enjoy the film to some extent. If, however, the name of the film leaves you cold you might want to stay away. The title also appears rather redundant at first glance, but rest assured the filmmakers didn’t just make an error in naming the film. Ninja Assassin contains a plot, but any sort of coherence is secondary in this film as the entire production is an excuse for slicing and dicing followed by copious amounts of CG blood. To this end the movie succeeds admirably. But there is a story, of sorts. We are introduced to the idea that there are nine clans set up as ninja training centres. They kidnap orphans and train them until they are well-toned, bloodied killing machines. Then, as they have been doing for centuries,...
- 12/6/2009
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Director: Gyorgy Palfi. Review: Tim Irwin. It's hard trying to figure out how to review Taxidermia. It's not particularly similar to many other movies I've ever seen. I suppose it's a black comedy; there's no other way to describe it. It is visually arresting, that's for sure. It is also very graphic, in absurd and often hilarious ways. There's a plot, I suppose, though the narrative really just follows common themes as it portrays three generations of Hungarians. The first 25 minutes are pure absurdist genius. We meet a lowly soldier who is stationed on a farm with a lieutenant and his family. This poor guy has a harelip and some serious hang-ups. He has a strange assortment of fixations and fetishes and I suppose Freud's head would explode trying to psycho-analyze him. Some of his many problems include making out with a candle and then somehow blowing fire out of his member.
- 11/25/2009
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Director: Gyorgy Palfi. Review: Tim Irwin. It's hard trying to figure out how to review Taxidermia. It's not particularly similar to many other movies I've ever seen. I suppose it's a black comedy; there's no other way to describe it. It is visually arresting, that's for sure. It is also very graphic, in absurd and often hilarious ways. There's a plot, I suppose, though the narrative really just follows common themes as it portrays three generations of Hungarians. The first 25 minutes are pure absurdist genius. We meet a lowly soldier who is stationed on a farm with a lieutenant and his family. This poor guy has a harelip and some serious hang-ups. He has a strange assortment of fixations and fetishes and I suppose Freud's head would explode trying to psycho-analyze him. Some of his many problems include making out with a candle and then somehow blowing fire out of his member.
- 11/25/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Director: Raphael Delpard. Review: Tim Irwin. Night of Death comes with a pretty nifty idea. To begin with, it's a French horror film from 1980, which is something in itself. The general plot outline is also a bit creepy, seeming like it should make for a quality horror film. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out quite like it could have. Isabelle Goguey stars as Martine, a young woman who has been out of work for some time. When her fiancé, Serge, (Michel Duchezeau) finds her a place at an old folks home she jumps at the opportunity. She's cute and young, and, with a good attitude, begins caring for the crazy old people. It's a good thing she's so plucky, since the administrator of the home is rather unkind (and also a bit crazy) and the previous worker, another young, pretty girl, leaves after Martine's first day. And then there are some odd rules,...
- 10/18/2009
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Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Review: Tim Irwin. I suppose this film is everything you would expect from it, since it’s from Japan and called Zombie Self-Defence Force. It’s a low-budget homage to Romero infused with the recent Japanese shock style. And I do mean low budget. The opening sequence involving the UFO that dooms Japan is hilarious in its awfulness. But before the opening sequence we are treated to an announcement. In it the narrator decries the Us for war crimes, from the nuclear bombs during World War II to the invasion of Iraq. But then he notes a few things that he likes about America: “Hamburgers, Rock, Hollywood movies - especially George A. Romero - a genius.” The political point of the opening (which isn’t subtle, just like all the rest of the commentary that the film makes a point to add) is that Japan shouldn’t...
- 9/27/2009
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Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Review: Tim Irwin. I suppose this film is everything you would expect from it, since it’s from Japan and called Zombie Self-Defence Force. It’s a low-budget homage to Romero infused with the recent Japanese shock style. And I do mean low budget. The opening sequence involving the UFO that dooms Japan is hilarious in its awfulness. But before the opening sequence we are treated to an announcement. In it the narrator decries the Us for war crimes, from the nuclear bombs during World War II to the invasion of Iraq. But then he notes a few things that he likes about America: “Hamburgers, Rock, Hollywood movies - especially George A. Romero - a genius.” The political point of the opening (which isn’t subtle, just like all the rest of the commentary that the film makes a point to add) is that Japan shouldn’t...
- 9/27/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
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