Cinema is Dope

[ View Image (1024×583) ]

[ View Image (1024×698) ]

[ View Image (1024×561) ]

Carice van Houten, whom certainly makes a name for herself in this outing, will next be seen in the upcoming horror film Dorothy Mills. Midnight Madness (view blog) programmer Colin Geddes was actually the first person that put this film on the map to me. While I was at my first Sitges Film Festival he literally raved about this film and told me see it regardless of the fact it didn’t have any English subtitles. Needless to say I found the film a complete and welcome surprise with filmmaker Paul Verhoeven adding yet another film to his list of great cinematic works.

Amazon.com Link:
Buy the Black Book DVD

(Read more…)

[ View Image (1024×768) ]

I remember very well all the hype and excitement leading up to Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall being released back in 1990. The trailers for the movie just looked amazing, especially with an all star cast and he had just done RoboCop previously. The director of RoboCop coming out with a rocking sci-fi film… hell yes sign me up please! The results were a wildly mixed film that can be loved in places, but so hard to love as a complete package. Nonetheless regardless how you shake this film it never comes up short in the “fun” department.

Not sure how I feel about Verhoeven’s next which is the sequel for The Thomas Crown Affair (though he certainly was on fire with Black Book - so there is hope yet!), but his film immediately after it, Azazel, (which who knows if it will in fact be the one to follow it) looks quite exciting and certainly up his sleeve to pull off.

Eiga Chirashi = mini poster/flyer’s from Japan

(Read more…)