Articles in European Movie Reviews
The Purifiers (2003) Movie Review
“How the hell does six kids with kung fu police a city block, much less their section of a major city, which when totaled, must be hundreds of blocks?” That was the question that kept popping into my head as I watched writer/director Richard Jobson’s ultra slick martial arts film “The Purifiers”, billed as the [...]
April 13th, 2005 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreCold and Dark (2004) Movie Review
Besides being one of the rare British horror films to incorporate a plot that is as “out there” as some of its American independent brethrens, Andrew Goth’s “Cold and Dark” is of interest to another group of fans, namely followers of Chow Yun Fat. Goth is also the director of the upcoming “The Wretched”, a [...]
April 9th, 2005 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreI’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) Movie Review
Somewhat disturbingly, I can easily imagine Clive Owen (”Sin City”) in 1971 practicing his chilling stare in an English sandbox while taking some poor toddler’s lunch money. That same year, Mike Hodges released his benchmark revenge thriller “Get Carter”, which defined film exploration of the London underworld with gruesome and realistic imagery. Now, some 30-plus [...]
April 4th, 2005 | Donnie Saxton | 0 comments | Read MoreNine Lives (2002) Movie Review
It’s rare these days to find a horror film that strays even a little bit outside of genre conventions; it’s even worse with the teen slasher subgenre. Dark corridors, scared teens, thunder and lightning, and a knife wielding slasher all figure prominently into the story. Unfortunately, the subgenre hasn’t been fresh since it was started [...]
March 20th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreWisconsin Death Trip (1999) Movie Review
Despite its title, “Wisconsin Death Trip” is not a crazed backwoods slasher film, but rather a feature length documentary about the high incidence of murder and madness which afflicted the small town of Black River Falls in the 1890s. Shot in black and white, and saturated with gothic style, director James Marsh invokes a catalogue [...]
March 10th, 2005 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Life aka Yo Puta aka Whore (2004) Movie Review
One of the most confusing things about “The Life,” a film fraught with confusion, is what to call it. Upon theatrical release it was called “Yo Puta,” presumably because the film is based on a novel of the same name. Between then and the recent DVD release, a decision was made to market it overseas [...]
March 9th, 2005 | Donnie Saxton | 0 comments | Read More9 Songs (2004) Movie Review
Writer/director Michael Winterbottom’s “9 Songs” is about a 20-something couple who meets during a live concert, retires to the man’s apartment for a night of marathon sex, then decides to shack up for a couple of months or so. As the movie’s reputation has indicated, in-between the trips to the same concert venue to listen [...]
February 28th, 2005 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreTattoo (2002) Movie Review
The plot is set in Berlin, where a maniac is preying upon people with intricate tattoos, harvesting their skin and leaving them for dead. The detective assigned to the case, Minks (Christian Redl) is a brutal, uncompromising thug who blackmails fresh-faced rookie Schrader (August Diehl, also in the German horror sequel “Anatomy 2″) into helping [...]
February 7th, 2005 | James Mudge | 2 comments | Read MoreHotet (2004) Movie Review
The Swedish film industry isn’t exactly known for their action movies, but after credible shoot-em-ups such as “Ranarna” (”The Robbers”) and “Executive Protection”, there seems to be an interest in widening the scope of what can be called “Swedish films”. “Hotet” (”The Threat” in English) follows along the lines of “Ranarna” rather than “Protection”, in [...]
February 5th, 2005 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreCreep (2004) Movie Review
“Creep” comes along at a time when the British horror industry is experiencing a resurgence of sorts, with recent years bringing forth films such as “28 Days Later” and “Dead Man’s Shoes”. In this context, director Christopher Smith’s debut film can be seen as more of a traditional genre throwback, and as such has little [...]
February 1st, 2005 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read More
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