Articles in French Movie Reviews
In My Skin (2002) Movie Review
Cannibalism is a popular theme in lowbrow exploitation cinema, exemplified by films such as “Cannibal Holocaust” and “The Untold Story”, though the subject rarely rears its ugly head in more artistically and critically acceptable fare. The French film “In My Skin” is an odd beast in that whilst it is a decidedly art-house production, it [...]
November 30th, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreImmortel ad vitam (2004) Movie Review
It seems like 2004 will be known as ‘The Year of the Virtual Movie Set.’ “Immortel” is one of four films that are garnering notice this year for being almost entirely filmed on blue/green screen with the majority of the on-screen visuals added digitally in post production (the other three films being “Sky Captain and [...]
October 30th, 2004 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreSecret Agents (2004) Movie Review
The French don’t generally do a lot of straight action movies, or if they do, you don’t hear a lot about them. “Crimson Rivers” (which starred “Secret Agents’” Vincent Cassel) was a stab at the popular serial killer genre, and in a way it succeeded — enough to warrant a sequel, anyway. “The Nest” was [...]
October 10th, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreDead End (2001) Movie Review
“Dead End”, a French production by French filmmakers with an all-American cast, is all geared toward “getting” the audience with a slick Twist Ending. So, knowing that, your only recourse is to sit through the whole thing trying to piece together the evidence and outguess the filmmakers before they can pull the Big Reveal. Of [...]
March 17th, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreFureur (2003) Movie Review
“Fureur” is one strange movie. It’s mostly in French, shot around the Chinatown community in France, and it counts among its cast members a variety of Asians, including but not limited to Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Burmese. And although the box cover will have you believe otherwise, it’s not really an action movie. Oh sure, [...]
March 13th, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreHigh Tension (2003) Movie Review
The French Slasher movie “Haute Tension” has been re-titled “Switchblade Romance” for its North American release. Why? I don’t know. I suppose movie execs are talentless hacks rather they are in France or America. Certainly the thought of needlessly renaming a film is something right up these particular subspecies’ alley. For the purpose of this [...]
February 16th, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Nest (2002) Movie Review
2002’s “The Nest” probably surprised a lot of people, myself included, who didn’t think the general French movie industry was capable of producing anything other than films about how great it is to have sex all the time or how crappy and miserable the world is and we should all hang ourselves. Unfortunately for mainstream [...]
December 7th, 2003 | Nix | 2 Comments | Read MoreDobermann (1997) Movie Review
It would be a mistake to consider Jan Kounen’s “Dobermann” an actual movie. It’s a 90-minute music video in the guise of a “clever” crime thriller with hidden desires to be cheap splatterpunk nonsense. The plot is appropriately simplistic, and the characters are accordingly over the top, given little annoying traits in lieu of actual [...]
May 27th, 2003 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreRiders aka Steal (2002) Movie Review
“Riders”, a movie about four tight-knit thieves (supposedly) under 30 who uses their extreme sports ability to stick it to The Man by robbing them and giving to their retirement fund, does these things wrong:
The thieves are distinctive looking: One is white with spiked blond hair; the other is a woman with wild blonde [...]
Bloody Mallory (2002) Movie Review
Parts “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and parts “John Carpenter’s Vampires”, the French film “Bloody Mallory” is all goofball. It would be a big mistake to take anything that transpires within the film seriously, mostly because the filmmakers themselves aren’t.
“Mallory” stars Olivia Bonamy as the titular character, a demon slayer whose innocence was taken when, [...]
Great news I'm looking forward to this one. 
youre welcome bmmb! The movie is gonna be great i hope they have a baby! 
ugh, someone send this guy(michael gonzalez) a keylogger or trojan. please. 
i dont thinkhe is that ugly! Now come ondont be so mean! and i repect your thoughts that was pretty ...
I love james even though he is the bad guy in the movie !! he plays his part very well ...
