An all-new teaser for Samuel Bayer/Michael Bay’s Nightmare On Elm Street rework has crept out onto the internet. A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in [...]
The Intruder is a dying man’s long goodbye and at times recalls Jim Jarmush’s Dead Man
The Intruder (2004)
Directed by Claire Denis
Inspired by a short book written by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy about his heart transplant, The Intruder works best viewed as an adaptation of a metaphor. The film starts vaguely, increases in abstraction, and ends inexplicably. [...]
This heartwarming, humanist and gender-blurring pic about life imitating art imitating life could possibly be his most accomplished work.
All About My Mother
Directed by Pedro Almodovar
With All About My Mother, Pedro Almodovar shifts away from his earlier, more kinky and offbeat views of sex and relationships. Here, he is more concerned about conventional film elements and [...]
Cinema as we know it is under threat from cell phones – those super-slim, shiny and increasingly seductive devices around which 21st-century life revolves. No, I’m not talking about the popcorn-munching, Apple-loving text addicts, whose glowing handsets ruin the big-screen experience for the rest of us. And I’m not losing any sleep over the DIY [...]
150- The Birthday (2004)
Directed by Eugenio Mira
Genre: Horror, Dark Comedy
A young man attends his girlfriend’s father’s birthday party held at a luxury hotel. Just as they arrive, weird things start to happen and guests and hosts alike become exceptionally aggressive. Shot in real time (a la Hitchcock’s Rope), The Birthday begins as an extremely unusual [...]
Fish Tank
Directed by Andrea Arnold
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“less politically inclined than Ken Loach or theatrically mannered than Mike Leigh – the film operates in a realm well-trod in UK cinema and serves as a welcome antidote to the adrenaline-fueled demands of the summer season.”
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The UK has a proud tradition of social realist cinema, pioneered by the so-called British [...]
Wasting no time establishing its premise, The Crazies begins as a taut horror film and remains en effective journey through paranoia and conspiracy theories
The Crazies
Directed by Breck Eisner
Fear Thy Neighbour
The Crazies is about the inhabitants of a small Kansas town systematically plagued by insanity after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply, when a plane [...]
This may be the year the Oscars get out of their ratings slump. The expanding of the Best Picture category from five to ten was a smart move. Its big enough to include red state crowd pleasers (The Blind Side), fan boy fare (District 9), the biggest movie ever (Avatar), and at least one ballsy [...]
The Last Station feels more like a stuffy old British play than actual history
The Last Station
Directed by Michael Hoffman
The Last Station presents the fascinating last year in the life of Russian giant Leo Tolstoy, watered down by a cavalcade of coming-of-age story and biopic clichés. It’s too bad, because there is so much to explore [...]
It’s hard to believe that after nearly 200 hous of programming, we’ve never had an episode tailored around the singular talents of one of America’s most revered filmmakers: Martin Scorsese. Shutter Island, the Dennie Lehane adaptation that was unceremoniously delayed for five months, found its way to theaters this past weekend and brought in Scorsese’s [...]
Our focus on European cinema continues with part three, in which we finally get around to Revanche, the Austrian film nominated for Best Foreign Feature at the Oscars last year, which has gotten a swanky DVD release courtesy of Janus Films and the Criterion Collection just this past week. Additionally, with the help of returning [...]
Wu-tang, originating from Staten Island, NY, aka Shaolin, burst onto the scene in the early 90’s. Ever since, the group has had a significant impact on a wide range of artistic mediums, including film. Whether it’s RZA spinning a slick, unique bass line to complement a flick, or Method Man lighting up an L and [...]
Revanche is a tough slow, depressing film, but incredibly well-acted, consistently believable, and an always entertaining, modest, satisfying arty crime story.
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Revanche
Directed by Gotz Spielmann
Austria
2008
122 minutes
Color
1.85:1
German
“If you plan revenge, dig two graves,” the saying goes…
A prostitute trying to escape her desperate existence, her ex-criminal boyfriend looking for some quick cash to pay back his debt, a [...]
Ricky D is the founder and creator of Sound on Sight. Due to contrary belief he has never attended any film school. Instead Ricky learned his craft from his eight years as a video store clerk and countless hours of watching VCR porn and 70`s horror films.
He has completed just over a dozen short films [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio continues his on going collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. After participating in The Aviator, Gangs Of New York and The Departed, the two have made yet another match made in heaven in the new Shutter Island. We want to know which of these four films you like best.
