Category: cinema
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New Xbox 360 Experience Launches Today in Tandem With HD Netflix Streaming
Xbox 360 owners rejoice – the next phase in the set-top entertainment paradigm is upon us. As I mentioned in earlier posts, Microsoft was able to forge an exclusive partnership with online DVD rental mogul Netflix that brings the catalog direct to your home entertainment system (with an existing Netflix membership) at no additional cost.
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TIFF’08 – Four final mini film reviews – bambambambam
1. Dungeon Masters An attempt at eye-level documentary of three still-operating Dungeon Masters. One is an active American Reservist who has a wife one would assume to sway the army from examining his obvious need to come out. Another is a part-time apartment manager living in Torrance with a wife and kid who just can’t…
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TIFF’08 – Exploitation Movies, Over-packed Ska shows and Ecstasy- ho!
Sunday night was all about celebrating blood, boobs and bombs as the Midnight Madness pirates stormed the bastilles, er, whatevs, and we were introduced to Mark Hartley’s self-proclaimed “rockumentary” Not Quite Hollywood – about Ozploitation cinema – that is to say – the non-existent Australian film industry doing whatever it could, back in the late…
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TIFF’08 – Saturday Night at the Festival + Hunger and Deadgirl’s world premiere
We headed through the heavy Queen St. traffic for Film Lounge to jump in and see our friends at the pre-party for Deadgirl. Turns out they meant the other Film Lounge on Dupont, and not the one across from the AGO. Maneuvering past the R.I.D.E. cops (Saturday night spot-checks) towards the Scotiabank theater (wtf happened?…
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TIFF’08 – Review – Detroit Metal City
Detroit Metal City was a devoutly-cherished and hard-to-get Manga that built a legion of devout followers in Japan. The story of a farm-boy who moves to the big city (Tokyo) to live out his dream of being a “trendy” musician – he inadvertently ends up as the lead singer of the most ferocious, bile-spewing death…