http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com Solo un altro blog Leftlab Blog Farm Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:18:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The original was at least fresh meat." Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz An unneeded and weak remake of Tobe Hopper's overrated original 1974 cult-fave slasher/horror flick. The original was at least fresh meat, made on a low budget, emphasized tension over violence, was simply told, could relate to the Vietnam debacle, and had a raw power. The ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/03/12/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-review/ ; Cameraantasm II is an utterly unredeeming, full-gore sequel to the original nine years earlier. The singular effects horrors upset stomach amok here, with oozy, hissing apparitions constantly erupting from the bodies of the afflicted.Story involves the morbid obsessions of two psychically connected teens, Mike (James Le Gros) and Liz ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/03/10/phantasm-2-review/ 3,000 MILES TO GRACELAND: Crime drama. Starring Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David Arquette. Directed by Demian Lichtenstein. (R. 120 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) American pop culture ought to be fun, but it sinks further into the trash heap with "3,000 Miles to Graceland," ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/03/07/3000-miles-to-graceland-cri/ : Farewell, Cosy Sweetmeat Home directed by Otar Iosseliani is a stylistically harmonious ' French comedy involving a series of interconnected stories in and here Paris. The film has a loose plot that features a series of characters such as a rich young man who would rather hang around with street ruffians, ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/03/04/farewell-home-sweet-home-di/ A lesser Elvis moving picture that degree breaks away from the usual method, Follow That Dream (1962) unwisely casts The Crowned head as a country bumpkin along the lines of Gomer Pyle. Most Elvis movies after about 1960 were vehicles built around his forte and reasonable charm, but this was ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/03/03/follow-that-dream-review/ "Nothing is what it seems." And while that strand from "The Recruit" is intended to tantalize, all it does is telegraph. What could (or should) have been a thriller turns at large to be merely an exercise--both literally and figuratively. It's a cat-and-mouse large screen ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/03/02/the-recruit-review/ "Moonlight Mile" is set in 1973, in the fictional town of Cape Anne, Mass., where a deranged man has murdered a young woman who was in a diner. The woman had a fiance named Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal), loving parents named Ben and JoJo Floss (Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon) ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/02/28/moonlight-mile-is-set-in-19/ The fictional teen detective Nancy Drew entered the literary world in 1930, the stories penned by a variety of authors under the nom de guerre Carolyn Keene and continuing in writing, movies, and tube to this era. In 1938 the Drew stories earliest came ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/02/27/nancy-drew-reporter-1939/ Advance word around the diligence may have been that "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" wasn't seaworthy, but then again, B.O. pundits laughed at Chris himself until he come up with the Origin of All Wickets clandestinely in 1492. As it happens, John Glen's belittle on the Genovese explorer adds up to ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/02/24/advance-word-around-the-indust/ A middling thriller scripted by John and Penelope Mortimer (from Evelyn Piper's novel) in which weary Inspector Olivier cruises a cameo-strewn London in search of Lynley's mislaid (and just if possible non-existent) child, and Preminger characteristically nags away at the minor-pivotal ambiguities as if the investigation were unemotional sort of ... http://franchescapageblog.leftlab.com/2010/02/23/bunny-lake-is-missing-review/