The Messengers
I don’t know where to begin. Visually, this film delivers on a certain level. Opening night at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (alas, not on the big screen but one of their small six) the darkened room was filled with laughter during the supposedly more intense...
The Messengers
After the Brothers Pang, Oxide and Danny, floored the whole of horror with their 2002 feature, The Eye, much anticipation followed as the countdown began for Hollywood to green light a project for the duo. Yet, admittedly, half of the anxiety involved in such a...
Memento Mori (Yeogo goedam II)
"Memento Mori", hell I don't know where to begin. This film was so weird yet it was shot, written and directed so well. At first I was kind of at a lose, some of these Asian films just get to me after a while cause I have to read subtitles while trying to watch film...
Mega Snake
Another giant fill-in-the-blank monster movie from Nu Image and the Sci-fi Channel, with predictably cheap CG creature FX on a par with the likes of BOA VS PYTHON and the usual array of Eastern European actors (pic, as usual, was shot in Bulgaria) pretending to be...
Meet The Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons is the first animated film I have reviewed on the site since Monster House. While most animated films are for the most part geared towards children, there are some that fall into that sci-fi and fantasy realm. Meet the Robinsons falls into both the...
Meet The Feebles
There are a handful of films that when they are over you are just forced to contend with the fact that you will never be the same again, such as David Lynch’s Eraserhead, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre, and Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small. The typical...
Meadowoods
The story behind Meadowoods has been an interesting one to say the least. Promoted with a viral video on Youtube titled “Screaming Skank Gets Buried Alive,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J2R3T2y-2I) Meadowoods promises to be an intense story that will shock you to...
Meatball Machine
The director of the cult classics Verses and Battlefield Baseball, Yudai Yamaguchi, teams up with rookie filmmaker Jun’ichi Yamamoto to create Meatball Machine, a work which stands as an a testament that the only thing more repulsive than plagiarism is the absence of...
Max Payne
Based on the popular video game of the same title, MAX PAYNE is actually better than the majority of the video game made films, which really isn't saying much. I read an article where some of the actors in the film had no idea the script was based on a video game...
The Matrix Revolutions
Well the final chapter to "The Matrix" films is not as good as the first or second film, but it still holds it's own, I think most people will be disappointed with the ending, I really didn't care but it felt as if the film was left open for perhaps another one. I...
Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People.)
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” --Samuel Johnson If you had to be either a mushroom or nothing, which would you choose? This is what famed Japanese director Ishirô Honda asks his audience by the climax of Matango. Granted, a work...
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (still with me?), attempts to fashion another version of the classic gothic novel to little argumentative point aside from theatricality (verses cinematically) painting a gothic canvas. The work posits everything including...
Martyrs
Not unsurprisingly, the latest balls-to-the-wall, unflinchingly graphic horror film to emerge from France (following IRREVERSIBLE, INSIDE, FRONTIERES, et al) originated from its writer-director’s own deep depression, though a final dedication to Dario Argento suggests...
Marronnier (DVD)
For some reason I could not get into this film at all, In fact looking beyond all the gore and cool looking effects of this film I found the story to be quite boring. It's kind of like the Asian version "House of Wax" in a way. the story are not that similar really...
Mars Attacks!
Tim Burton’s major sin in Mars Attacks! is that at every turn he is busy parodying something. Yes, he is attempting to make a bad film in the vein of Ed Wood (whose comic cinematic biography he’d recently finished). Yet, a parody of such B-movie fare doesn’t mean the...
