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The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious Creatures (William Morrow; 2013) by Michael LargoThis big, fat book is nothing less than a modern bestiary, with articles on various animals arranged alphabetically in chapters devoted to each letter (although X,Y and Z share the final one). Monster Files (New Page Books; 2013) by Nick RedfernThe long, unwieldy sub-title of this book lays out what separates it from other, similar books on monsters, 'A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents On Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals!' It also establishes its tone, through that extraneous exclamation mark: Excitable, credulous and emphatic.Redfern has a somewhat liberal interpretation of 'government secrets' and 'classified documents,' and what he really means is any connection at all to some sort of government official or agency, no matter how tenuous. Many of the monsters of the most familiar—Bigfoots, sea serpents, the Loch Ness Monster, Britain's Alien Big Cats, wolf-men—but the premise of the book gives him a new angle from which to address them, and a new spin on stories involving them.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: The brief visit to were-bear Beorn was the only really noteworthy plot subtraction Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin had to make when adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's rather fleet children's adventure novel into their even fleeter still 1977 animated adaptation (Which, for the record, clocked in at under 80 minutes, total).
Machete Kills: The silly 2010 action movie Machete began life in the most unlikely of ways, a parody trailer of 1970s ethnic hero exploitation flicks, starring Danny Trejo, that was but one of several such trailers for imaginary films that ran during Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 Grindhouse double bill. Apparently too good not to make, writer/director Robert Rodriguez (with both a co-writer and a co-director) reverse engineered an actual movie from that trailer, filling it with an ideal action movie cast.and Robert DeNiro, of all people.It didn't quite live up to its own potential, but it was pretty fun nonetheless.The overdue sequel, Machete Kills, fittingly opens with for its own sequel, Machete Kills Again.In Space!, a patently ridiculous film that makes the trailers for Machete and Machete Kills look like ones promoting Oscar-baiting Christmas prestige pictures. And then, slowly at first, but with increasing speed and certainty, Rodriguez and Trejo spend the film's entire running time barreling toward that completely insane fantasy third Machete movie, transitioning from at least semi-serious into something more akin to an R-rated Spy Kids, without any kids in it (Well, original spy kid Alexa Vega, now 25, shows up as a prostitute/assassin wearing only a bra, g-string, chaps and guns and made me feel.weird).Skinny little Carmen Cortez. She filled out.The is mainly an excuse for a parade of interesting performances, many of which fall closer to cameo than anything else: Pro-gun, pro-pot United States President Rathcock (played by Charlie Sheen, billed as 'Carlos Estevez') recruits Machete, still recovering from the violent loss of his girlfriend Jessica Alba, to return to Mexico and take down a maniacal Bond villain named Mendez (Demian Bichir) who has a nuclear missile pointed at Washington D.C. Finding Bigfoot Vols. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013): The box next to another fairy tale gets ticked off, as Hollywood continues to try and turn them all into action-adventure films. The Hole (2001): This little millennial British suspense film from the pre- Bend It Like Beckham days, when both Thora Birch and some guy named Desmond Harrington commanded higher billing than Keira Knightley, features a claustrophobic setting, and an equally stressful plot when it ventures outside 'the hole.'
That hole is abandoned bomb shelter near the grounds of exclusive British boarding school, known only to a brilliant but creepy student played by a Daniel Brocklebank (a surname so British sounding it seems like it must be made up). As a class trip nears, Brocklebank plans to share the secret and use his computer skills to excuse a few of the richer, more popular students and, as a favor to his best friend Birch, her too, so she can attempt to spend the weekend winning over crush object Harrington. So Brockelbank locks four teens in the hole and then.disappears, and they find themselves stuck, with high emotions, dwindling supplies and no hope of rescue.The film opens after whatever happens in the hole, as police try to figure out exactly who's to blame for the deaths that inevitably occur, with three different sets of flashbacks from different perspectives telling the story of what really happened.It's cheap enough to look like a particularly artsy and expensive episode of a Law and Order, but it's rather well-acted, and the premise is effectively scary. But I imagine it will remain best-known for being a movie in which Knightley flashes her breasts for, oh, a second, possibly a second-and-a-half.
Jack The Giant Slayer (2013): Here's yet another attempt to turn a fairy tale into a action/fantasy film, the main strategy for lengthening a five-minute telling of 'Jack and The Beanstalk' into a 115-minute feature film being plot padding, and lots of it (For comparison's sake, the 1947 Mickey & The Beanstalk is only about a half-hour long).Four different writers (two credited with story, three with screenplay, with Darren Lemke credited for both) expand the plot, embedding an ancient fairy tale about a war between the giants and human beings within the retelling of this fairy tale. Kaboom (2010): This is the latest film from Gregg Araki, the writer/director responsible for Doom Generation, Nowhere, Mysterious Skin and one of the best things to ever happen to film. Starting as a college sex comedy involving the sexual awakening of mostly gay student Thomas Dekker, who lusts after his witless, blond surfer god dormmate Thor (Chris Zylka) while hooking up with the free-spirited, funny-hat afficinado Juno Temple and a couple of other dudes. The Lone Ranger (2013): The principal creators involved with this movie—director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, star Johnny Depp, two-thirds of the writers—made mind-boggling amounts of money playing pirates, and after four Pirates of the Caribbeans, they decided to play cowboys and Indians. Oz The Great and Powerful (2013): Oz suffers, like 1985's Return to Oz and the sundry, less ambitious filmic attempts to base another movie on L. Frank Baum's fantasy land, from the incredible success of the 1939, Judy Garland-starring original. That Wizard of Oz occupies such a position of power in our pop culture, that its shadow obscures all other straight attempts, and its gravity warps and deforms new movies (The best a filmmaker can hope to achieve, apparently, is to go for a weird and radical new riff, like or.).
Primeval: New World (2013): This is the long-awaited (by me), North American spin-off to the five-season British sci-fi series about a group of scientists dealing with time-space 'anomalies' and the creatures that come through them, often remarkably well-designed prehistoric creatures (The series was created by the guys who did those awesome Walking With. Series of documentaries). Rapture-Palooza (2013): Or, the other Craig Robinson-starring apocalypse comedy of the year. While undoubtedly smaller and less-seen than This Is The End (see below), it features a bigger and better role for Robinson, and, while the two films are different enough that calling one a winner and the other a loser is impossible, the poorly-titled Rapture-Palooza follows the actual Book of Revelation more closely and even takes care to note when deviating (I still don't know where The Rapture is in the Bible, though), and certainly gets much, much more mileage out of less. It has a much smaller, but just-as-talented cast, and fewer star-stars, and, despite being set in a few more locations than This Is The End, feels a lot more intimate and character-driven.So the Chris Matheson-written story (You know, the Bill & Ted's writer) begins with Anna Kendrick and John Francis Daley's young couple witnessing The Rapture one day, and then, together with their families, struggling through apocalyptic life in Seattle. Both of their moms are raptured, but one of them is sent back from heaven. Flaming rocks fall from the sky.
It rains blood. Undead ghouls called 'wraiths' roam the world (including a neighbor played by Thomas Lennon in zombie make-up, making Bobcat Goldyhwait sounds under his breath). There are human-faced locust creatures (that one's in the Bible) and crows that caw obscenities (that one's not). And the Anti-Christ, played by Craig Robinson, has risen, although he insists on being called 'The Beast.' As rough as things are, they get infinitely rougher for our young heroes when they join Daley's dad, played by a mustachioed Rob Corddry, on a trip to The Beast's mansion, where Corddry has a job as a 'Beastly Guard.'
There, The Beast notices Kendrick and his growing interest in her—he previously explained on a newscast that he's looking to settle down with a girl next door type with a nice rack—is confirmed when he learns she's a virgin, and he decides she must marry him and bear his children, or he'll kill everyone she knows.From there, the young couple must desperately work out a plan to stop Robinson's Anti-Christ that doesn't involve killing him, as apparently killing him will simply promote him from the Anti-Christ into actual Satan. Not to worry, it all ends happily enough, after an appearance by maybe the most unlikely character to play God since Alanis Morrisette in Kevin Smith's not-as-good Dogma, who kung fu-fights Robinson's devil, although the pro-humanist, pro-atheist message may trouble some believers. Or maybe not.the script leaves open the possibility that even the seemingly nonsensical ending may have been part of God's plan, since relatively little of the plan as revealed in Revelation and dramatized here makes a lot of sense anyway.Despite her starring role, Kendrick gets a little less to do than I would have liked, spending maybe too much of the film's running time awkwardly accepting, shrugging off or trying to repel Robinson's lewd come-ons and dirty jokes, many of which end with, 'I'm just kidding. But not really.'
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Ati radeon 9700 video card. (I am sorry, truly sorry, to admit that one scene, in which The Beast takes Kendrick's character for a walk around his grounds, reminded me of one of those icky Brian Wood stories circulating). She does also spend a lot of it in the dress seen on the cover—'Wow, you look so slutty,' Daley says admiringly, to which she replies, 'Thanks'—the image that did, I must confess, sell me on bringing this particular movie home from the library one night instead of Kendrick's also-new-to-DVD Drinking Buddies (or Pitch Perfect, which, despite my crush on Kendrick, I can't bring myself to watch. The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011): This special effects heavy, green-screen kung fu fantasy by Siu-Tung Ching ( Chinese Ghost Story), stars Jet Li as the titular sorcerer (actually a demon-hunting abbot of a Buddhist temple). Based on a Chinese legend, a variation of the crane wife stories of human marriages to shape-changing supernatural creatures, it involves a snake demon (Shengyi Huang of Kung Fu Hustle) assuming a fully human form in order to pursue her love for handsome human herablist played by Raymond Lam. She and her sister Green Snake (Charlene Choi) descend to earth during a festival, crossing paths with Li's abbot and his comedic sidekick Zhang Wen as they hunt a vampire-like bat deamon.The love story between the herbalist and White Snake is genuine and intense, played out as cinematic, operatic melodrama, but Li's stubborn abbot is naturally opposed, and things get complicated quickly. Spring Breakers (2012): Here is absolutely everything I knew about Spring Breakers before bringing the DVD home from the library: 1) It was a spring break movie prominently featuring the sexy, baby-faced actress I'd seen increasingly posing in magazines that had a show on Disney or Nickelodean and dates or dated a popular teenage pop singer, 2) There were attractive young women wearing bikinis on the case, 3) The logo was really quite beautiful, 4) James Franco was apparently in it too.?Suffice it to say, it wasn't the spring break movie I was expecting.
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