In rural Virginia, retired Witness Protection (WP) specialist John Kruger (Arnold) – the legendary “Eraser” who once faked deaths and gave new identities to high-risk witnesses – is visited by new agents from his old workplace, led by one Steven Holabeek. They claim they are erasing him to protect him from the foreign terror group Emerging Justice, based on a CIA tip-off. In reality, these rogue agents are secretly working with the terrorists and plan to kill him. The official government won’t risk a diplomatic scandal with the terrorists’ home country – a powerful Middle Eastern ally – so the corrupt agents use the “protection” story as cover for the hit. (more…)
September 23, 2018 Leave your thoughtsCategories for Film
April 26, 2018 Leave your thoughtsFan poster for Enrica Antonioni’s documentary To Make a Film Is to Be Alive, about the making of Michelangelo Antonioni’s final film Beyond the Clouds (1995). (more…)
March 31, 2018 Leave your thoughts“All special effects must serve the story”, says Spielberg, and goes on to worship the story’s king: character. They are such a big part of storytelling, each one of them here is doubled with an avatar. Avatars help them break free of reality’s shackles and become true to their dreams. (more…)
A supercut of endings of films about atrocities.
December 18, 2017 Leave your thoughtsConsumerists dream of bio-mechanical enhancements, while free spirits are commodified by the corporate machine.
Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile (2006) 
Johnnie To's Drug War (2012) 
Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War (2011) 
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's “Doppelgänger” (2003) 
Kim Ki-duk's “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring” (2003) 
Kim Jee-woon's “I Saw the Devil” (2010) 
Lee Chang-dong's “Oasis” (2002) 
Takashi Miike's “One Missed Call” (2003) 
Kim Jee-woon's “The Quiet Family” (1998) 
Kim Jee-woon's “A Tale of Two Sisters” (2003) 
Lee Chang-dong's “Poetry” (2010) 
Satoshi Kon's “Tokyo Godfathers” (2003) 
Hou Hsiao Hsien's “Millennium Mambo” (2001)
November 9, 2017 Leave your thoughtsMainstream media promotes the idea that women are more virtuous than men and inflates the bubble of moral superiority. No-nonsense masculine filmmaker Walter Hill won’t be fooled and returns to set the record straight with a bloody, politically incorrect pulp parable.
Les destinées sentimentales (2000) – Good – An audacious 3h film that really starts at about the 90th minute
demonlover (2002) – Great – Modernism redefined for a new century
Clean (2004) – Great – The most musical film of a most musical filmmaker (more…)
April 28, 2017 Leave your thoughts