David Cronenberg has a habit of approaching things from oblique angles. Whether it’s in a horror movie, like Videodrome, or an adaptaion of a graphic novel, like A History of Violence, he never quite delivers what we expect. In his latest film, Eastern Promises, he takes Steven Knight’s story of a nurse, a baby and […]
Sydney White Disappoints. Michelle Alexandria’s Review
While watching this film I couldn’t help but be pissed at the misleading advertising – what little that I’ve seen. Based on the trailer I thought this film would be sort of a modern day retailing of the Snow White story. I’m an absolute sucker for the teeny bopper fish out of water story. I […]
Resident Evil: Extinction Is Not Bad. Michelle Alexandria’s Review!
I’m a gamer and have covered the game industry for as long as I covered the film industry and just like the film industry I have a tendency to go my own way and be contrarian. When the Resident Evil series first launched and everyone raved about the game, I was the lone voice that […]
Hey, Whaaaa???? This isn’t EclipseMagazine!
Well, we finally got everything migrated off of Drupal, we broke a few eggs to do it. Namely, I accidentally deleted our Television Category, but TV coverage is such a time sensitive thing, that I’m not going to lose any sleep over the fact that we don’t have a review of the premiere of Battlestar […]
The Brave One: Foster, Howard Sizzle While Film Flounders!
It seems like it was just last week we were discussing revenge flicks… largely because it was! In a week’s time, we’ve moved from Death Sentence – which, in its lowbrow, exploitation, B-movie way said more about actions and consequences than anyone could have expected – to The Brave One, in which Neil Jordan takes […]
Site Changes – By Michelle Alexandria
Please ignore the mess, I’m finally switching EM over to a new system this weekend and am playing with a couple of different new looks. Michelle
Highlander: The Source – Sterile Highlander Movie Should End Series!
For some reason, the Highlander franchise has survived all manner of obstacles. The last two movies were – to say the least – atrocious. The anime´ was very average. One of the key figures in successfully transferring the movie concept to television, William S. Panzer, died. You’d think that would be enough. But, no! The […]
Dragon Dynasty Kicks: D.O.A.: Dead Or Alive; The City of Violence: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition; Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition
Dragon Dynasty is onto something good: Asian action movies with and without martial arts – and even non-Asian martial arts movies. D.O.A.: Dead Or alive is an unlikely hybrid of Charlie’s Angels and Enter The Dragon; The City of Violence is the latest action movie from Korea’s Ryoo Seung-wan, whose work is being compared to […]
3:10 to Yuma: A Re-Make That Equals and in Some Respects Betters The Original!
The fall movie season is upon us, with its promise of Oscar®-worthy releases and more thought provoking fare in general. In 3:10 to Yuma, the season has its first big contender for a mess of acting awards. At least four of the cast members will likely get more than a passing interest from the Academy […]
Animation: Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme; Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society
Marvel’s Master of the Mystic Arts gets the Lionsgate straight-to-DVD treatment and Doctor Strange immediately becomes the best of the animated Marvel movies to date by staying true to the basics set out by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, forty years ago. The latest installment in the casefiles of Public Security Section 9 finds the […]
DC Peeps, Be the first to see The Brave One!
Courtesy of our friends at Warner Brothers, you can attend the Washington, DC Advanced screening of one of the most anticipated films of the Fall – Jodie Foster’s revenge flick, The Brave One. This film looks like a remake of the old Charles Bronson Death Wish films which I used to love. The DC Screening […]