CELLULOID BURNING

The Crazies is Outbreak (1995) meets 28 Days Later (2002), but based on a 1973 George Romero film.
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There is a new trailer circling the webs for How To Train Your Dragon it’s kinda like that part from Avatar… but in a whole movie… and not 5 hours long.

The Apartment = Mad Men + A Brief Encounter but with the Billy Wilder touch.

The Apartment is the best movie you’ve probably never heard of. You’ve probably never heard of The Apartment because it’s a “little” movie. By this, I mean that there are no buzz worthy bullet points that make the film stand out in anyway. There are no over-the top performances, no action or special effects, and no epic scope or culturally significant backdrop. The Apartment is just a simple yet perfectly executed little love story… but perfectly executing “little and “simple” is a really really hard thing to do.
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I have been very cynical critical about Jackie Chan’s recent cinematic output but I do have to admit that this trailer… you know, doesn’t suck. Ok it actually kinda looks good. This new versions seems to take what made the original so compelling and add scope and actual martial arts. If anyone out there knows Jackie Chan, please do pass along a message for me. “Hey Jackie, I know you are selling your soul to hollywood for the highest bidder… please try and choose more Karate Kids and fewer The Spy Next Doors.

Check out our Top 10 Jackie Chan Movies HERE

I’ve written here often… ok maybe like 2 times… that Johnnie To is my favorite living director. He is one of the more unique and interesting filmmakers around. You never quite know what you are going to get when you watch one of his movies, which is a breath of fresh air in the redo/remake/reimagine atmosphere we are currently in. His latest film Vengeace is getting a limited theatrical release in the US on May 14th, courtesy of IFC Films. The film has been getting mixed reviews since his Cannes debut. I haven’t gotten around to getting the all region release yet from Yes Asia so this is a great excuse for me to finally see the movie. Check out the trailer below and decide for yourselves.

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Don’t you hate it when people spoil the endings to films you haven’t seen yet? What kind of jerk does that intentionally? Well…um…we are.

For this Top 10 Tuesday, we’ll provide the spoilers for the endings of 10 unnamed films. If you can be the first one to guess the titles of all 10 films correctly, we’ll send you some cool random swag for free. That’s right. This is the first Celluloid Burning contest! What kind of swag, you ask? You’ll just have to find out. Does it even matter? It’ll be free. Free shit is always awesome!!
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The Warrior is The Chinese Connection meets Chinese Super Ninjas, but…Indonesian?

Does the thought of brightly colored, flagrantly acrobatic, old-school martial arts action send blood hurtling towards the swollen and tingly areas of your bikini zone? If so, step up to the bar, open wide, and swallow what I give you. 5 Drink Minimum is open for business, and our special of the day is the Indonesian martial arts fantasy film The Warrior.
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Tekken, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is one of the biggest fighting game franchises around, and is made by the Japanese company Namco. I’m a decent fan of the fighting game franchise (and fairly handy with character Brian Fury in Tekken 3, 5, and Tag), but it looks like we’ve got another video-game to film adaption.

*Sigh*

Film adaptions of video games have an extremely spotty record where quality is concerned. Odds are that this’ll suck like a man who has a gun leveled to his head, but I hope (against all common sense) that might be fun enough to be worth sneaking a flask into later.

Movie Musicals are dead… ok maybe not dead, but at the very least they’re on life-support. The era of the big, opulent musical has passed. It passed away a long time ago. Yes there have been echoes of greatness, most notably Moulin Rouge, but really what else? Chicago, Rob Marshall movies… I think not (you have to bring something new to revive a dead genre). Now for the movie musical lovers, like myself, that doesn’t mean it’s time to slit your wrists and say “Hi” to baby Jesus just yet. There is cause for some celebration as there are plenty of films out there, that aren’t technically musicals (in the classical sense), but are best remembered for their unique and surprising musical moments. So lets collectively take the club out of Rob Marshall’s hands and give the dead horse a break.
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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is Clash of the Titans (1981) meets The Goonies (1985), but all shiny and new.

Even as a film fan, I don’t tend to watch a lot of PG-rated fare. In fact, the last kids film I watched was Hayao Miyazaki’s quite charming and G-rated Ponyo last summer. In general, I expect PG-films to be blandly inoffensive and sterile affairs, and tiresomely appropriate for people of all ages. Imagine my surprise when I go watch The Lightning Thief and get something that is more like a throwback to the ballsy fantasy movies for kids we got in the 80’s than anything in recent memory.
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