I think it's pronounced... 'Faa-che-book'?
- 11 Feb 10
Blogs The Perishables
So we're back, kind of. The first review in our planned ongoing revival is up now, and it finds us entering the brave new/old world of DVD and Blu-Ray reviews alongside albums, gigs and new cinema releases. Mainly, this is just as an excuse to cover anything we miss in cinemas - we're not going in-depth with special features or technical details or anything, so don't get your hopes up. Although anyone who hasn't yet got on-board with Blu-Ray should really sort that out ASAFP (The Godfather in particular has had wonders worked upon it, although I always feel like telling people that will inevitably lead to this kind of reaction - 'what, you gonna call Coppola with ideas on how to fix it?').
As we begin to shake off the rust and get back into the way of things, new stuff should appear with increasing regularity and, being the forward-thinking kinds that we are, we have one of these here 'Facebook' pages, as I believe the youths are calling them. Any new updates'll get posted there, so if you want kept up to speed and, like me, are still a little bit afraid of RSS feeds, then go ahead and join.
Thirst
- 10 Feb 10
Film Film Reviews
A vampire film from the director of Oldboy is not what you'd expect from any of those words.
Fairly or not, both Park Chan-Wook movies and vampire movies carry certain expectations. Park is, of course, most famous for his 'Vengeance Trilogy' - Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance - a collective fever dream of deliriously stylish baroque revenge schemes, filled with hammer fights, eye-gouging and, in one instance, a scene that gives horrendous new meaning to the old line about a queue at an execution. Vampire movies, though tamed of late by Twilight and its ilk, by definition run on blood. Thirst, then, billed as Park Chan-Wook's vampire movie, would seem to give the Korean provocateur license to run riot, dousing the screen in creative blood-letting whilst restoring a sense of tragic grandeur to the genre. Which he does. In a way. But Thirst is defiantly not the film the words 'Park Chan-Wook's vampire movie' might lead fans to expect.
Upon Returning: An Open Letter
- 02 Feb 10
Editorial Editorials
Well now. Well well well well well. Now. 'Sup. It's been a while. About a year and a half, in fact. Regular readers, if any remain, might have noticed the change in the site's layout and the new URL. They might also have noticed the general lack of new content. An explanation, then.