ph: Niklas Hoejlund
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Lucky Luciano (1973)
After serving nine years of his 50-year sentence in the 1930s and 1940s Lucky Luciano is pardoned and deported to Italy, where he finds himself under a continued investigation.
Detailed and meticulously played character study with some unclear political pretensions.
Maltin **: "Fair international coproduction..."
Monday, July 15, 2013
8MM (1999)
A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.
Uneven dark thriller with some chilling moments but without depth and one overblown lead performance.
Halliwell (no star): "A gloating, exploitative thriller about pornography in Los Angeles; it develops a hectoring tone that cannot be justified by script, direction or acting."
Maltin **: "An intensely grim, often unpleasant film, somewhat reminiscent of HARDCORE, is weakened by serious issues of credibility in Cage's character and motivation."
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl
falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure.
Although visually a splendour, the story mingles so many disparate elements as if the makers hadn't understood the original fairy tale and by supposedly enhancing its content they have turned it into a silly teenie goth thriller.
Maltin *1/2: "Tedious, heavy-handed film provides purported answers to questions no one cares to know about the story of Red Riding Hood. It also tries, and fails, to bring TWILIGHT-like sizzle to a love triangle that may or may not involve a werewolf."
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