Puppet Master: Axis of Evil It’s 1939 and Danny Coogan is a depressed young man living in California. He wants nothing more than to head off to Europe so he can fight some Nazi scum, but a nasty polio outbreak when he was younger left him with a permanent limp and a rejection letter from […]
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Uzumaki AKA: Spiral Kirie is a young high schooler in the small Japanese village of Kurouzu-cho, a quiet little place where nothing much happens. Until it does. It all starts when Kirie stumbles upon her friend Shuichi’s father intently videotaping a snail climbing up a wall. Kirie chalks it up to harmless odd behavior, but […]
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Ted and Laura Fletcher and their 12-year-old daughter Amy, have just moved into a once abandoned house near the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Ted’s working on a book about the area, and thought a more immersive experience would be helpful. The house is huge and just recently updated, and luckily for the family they got […]
Read moreLet’s be honest. If you looked that good sitting on a motorcycle while wearing shades with a bunch of Japanese signs behind you, you’d probably pose like this too. Michael Douglas knows. Shoot, he’s probably somewhere doing this right now. Damn right, he is. Nick Conklin is a New York City cop on the edge. […]
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After losing his job, the patriarch of the Katakuris family uses the money he received in his severance package and purchases an old, run down house, and then ropes the rest of his reluctant family into helping him turn it into a thriving bed and breakfast. The father bought the property knowing that a road […]
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You may be asking yourself why I’ve listed two movie with very similar titles together. The answer is very simple. A Story of Floating Weeds and Floating Weeds are two separate movies with the same plot. Let me explain. A Story of Floating Weeds is a 1934 silent movie directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The movie was a […]
Read moreIn the future, we’ll still have carrots, tanks will be able to talk to us about baseball, and humanity will have collectively run out of good ideas for element names. Gunhed is a weird, messy movie, but it’s one I highly enjoyed for all its quirks and bizarre problems. I should give some personal background […]
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During a rain-drenched showdown between two Yakuza factions, Akemi, the leader of one faction, inadvertently slices the eyes of an innocent woman trying to protect her relative. She looks down to see a cat lapping up the fallen woman’s blood before the feline attacks her, in an act that Akemi is convinced is the product […]
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AKA Rinne Reincarnation is about a group of filmmakers who decided to make a movie about a massacre that happened at a rural hotel. Thirty-five years earlier, college professor Norihasa Omori visited the hotel with his video camera and two children. During the course of his day he stabs his wife and kills 11 people, […]
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You know, the movies are fun on their own, but these posters are awesome. Professor Shiraki arrives in an isolated town to take a job as the psychology teacher at a local school for girls. Not five minutes after arriving the current principal informs him that he is to become the new principal. The professor […]
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