Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)


































  A large shipment of gold becomes the point of interest for many dark figures in a small village in feudal China. A blacksmith with a caged lover, a British veteran soldier, a clan of assassins and a brothel owner fight over what is their own and what should have been their own...
  RZA's first attempt at directing certainly does not leave you disappointed. Do not expect any high-end directing or a re-invention of cinema art but do expect an entertaining 96 minutes of cult role-playing and vivid storytelling. Tarantino's little finger was dipped in this movie and you can see that too at some points. All in all, a modern low-fi with enough balls to become a cult classic somewhere in the next 50 years and surely a nice spending of your time.
  RZA plays the main character, the blacksmith with a hurt past. Russell Crowe brings up the game and plays the British veteran with a keen for young harlots and Lucy Liu is sure the own to provide him with such pleasures. Rick Yune arrives in the nick of time to save the day and Dave Bautista has to get in the way as always.
Must watch this : if you have been away from home for too long, put on this fucker and let it be your ticket back to who you used to be. Must accompany with something Chinese just for the cult of it, prefer a Kung-Pao chicken maybe!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258972/
Nobody takes away my Mi-Mi
Stay strong, Clarence
I-AM-IRONHAND

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

21 Jump Street (2012)


































  Two goofy and ever-failing cops are assigned on a secret mission ; they are to infiltrate a high school as students and put a stop to the rise of a new and dangerous drug that has been making its way to the kids...
  All right, you got me. This is too modern to be considered cult but I beg to differ! Given its cult past already (it used to be a series starring Johnny Depp in the days of yore), 21 Jump Street has all it takes to make it as a classic cult stoner comedy and it should as it is one of the few American comedy films that made me laugh recently. Hats off to directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for that sixpack-making combination. Drugs? Plenty. Boobs? Could be more. Cheesy humor?Duh! Carefree vibes? Count me in!
  It's nice to see Channing Tatum in something else other than his usual cute-face bullshit. OK, it's not that he changed his career with this film but at least he can take some comedy lessons by not-so-fat-anymore Jonah Hill. The addition of Ice Cube elevates the level of the film and so does that of Dave Franco, Rob Riggle,
Brie Larson and a cameo from Johnny Depp as the a cult reference!
Must watch this : roll a fat one and enjoy this film with the dudes. Laugh your ass off during the Phases scene and cool off with that fucker afterwards.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232829/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Hands down, best shit I've ever smoked. And I'm from Compton

The chief said it. That shit is dope

Just don't hurt the pinatas. They got feelings too, man!

Monday, October 27, 2014

Dark Shadows (2012)


































  Barnabas Collins, an imprisoned vampire doomed to eternal life, is woken up after a 200-year sleep.  He returns to what his family's house only to find his descendants having dishonored the family name. Trying to set things right, he meets again the woman that cursed him and she once more tries to stop him from finding true love...
  Tim Burton revives a long forgotten television series by the same name that made it big between 1966 and 1971. Being the amazing storyteller that he is, it must have been a piece of cake for Burton to direct this and this is meant both good and bad. For one thing, Dark Shadows is a fun gothicee film with all the right touiches of cult references and a cool soundtrack but at some points it gets too Hollywood even for Burton. Still though, it surely won't make you feel you lost your time!
  Where there's Burton, there's always a hint of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and this film is no exception. Depp stars as the dusty vampire trying to settle in the confusing present, Bella Heathcote plays the girl who will make him fall in love again but Eva Green has other plans for that. Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz (dayum) and Gulliver McGrath fill up the rest of the seats on this crazy train!
Must watch this : you should have watched it in the cinema theaters. But if you lost that chance, you can still watch it on DVD on the first rainy days of autumn with a cup of herbal tea or Glühwein.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077368/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Boo, you whore!
That's so fuckin' deep man
Fresh meat

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

A.C.A.B - All Cops Are Bastards (2012)


































  The story of a group of riot control force policemen as they struggle through everyday life hardships while trying to find balance between justifiable violence and abuse of power.
  Stefano Sollima's first break from television to the big screen, and quite a debut I might add. A highly controversial story and definitely not one that a starting director would choose. But it is worth it. Sollima does not intend to give an answer or a solution to the issue of violent riots and who is right between the cops and the rioters. His intention is to condemn violence and to show that violence only creates and recycles the vicious circle of violence in society. The story may seem that takes that part of the cops but that is wrong. It is viewed by the cops' angle only to show you that everyone is rotten!
  Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro and Marco Giallini play the main roles in this movie while the rest of the cast surely deserves congratulations too. Giallini is the team's leader and Favino is the group's bad sheep with enough shit on his file to put him on the other side of the law.
Must watch this : with thin crust pizza with pure Italian toppings, a bottle of Peroni beer and your dudes. Then go out and set trash cans on fire.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1893195/
Look out, chief. This asshole throw his banana peel
And then I stepped on a banana peel and it all went blank!
So long, bitches!