A costume drama that has even less support than the many corset-enhanced busts that populate it, "The Duchess" is a very straightforward and surprisingly apathetic variation of the trite melodrama seen before in the worst examples of this genre.
If mirrors reflect the grotesqueries of the soul, then director Alexandre Aja is enduring a dark night indeed. A grisly and blood-soaked horror thriller, "Mirrors" relies on unnecessary gore and visceral repugnance over genuine scares or credible atmosphere.
Having abandoned all attempts at simple parody, let alone something as sophisticated or challenging as the satire in your average CBS family hour sitcom, the work of Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg continues the descent into cultural ass digestion with the latest in their 'Movie' franchise. [read more]
By constantio, September 23, 2008, 18 views, No Comment
Considering how the once exotic South-East Asian city has been gentrified and militarized in recent years, underage transsexual hookers lifting the wallets from inebriated Western tourists is about as adventurous as it gets in the modern Thai capital.
A disheveled and incoherent jumble, "Babylon A.D." sadly loses the few bits of intriguing groundwork it lays amidst a cacophony of mangled editing, lethargic performances, and an utterly unfocused and often contradictory narrative.
One could easily dismiss it for using a dystopian story [read more]
By constantio, September 4, 2008, 19 views, No Comment
