Author: Gunnar

I don’t get it….

Title:	Upstream Color
Director:	Shane Carruth
Score:	?/6
?:	?

Comedy-thriler-drama-crime.  Not my favourite genre combination, so I’ll let the female unit roll the dice.

Title:	Dom Hemingway
Director:	Richard Shepard
Score:	5/6
Plusses for:	Music.

Scripted by the numbers as only Hollywood can.  Still, surprisingly watchable.

Title:	Real Steel
Director:	Shawn Levy
Score:	4/10
Annoyance level:	Moderately moderate.

What’s that coming over the hill?  Is it a monster?

Title:	Cockneys Vs Zombies
Director:	Matthias Hoene
Score:	3/6
Awards:	Best title sequence.

Old school horror plot in a modern wrapping.  Likes.

Title:	+1
Director:	Dennis Iliadis
Score:	4/6
Watch at:	Itunes. No DVD, I think.

“Why did he kill his parents?”
 

Title:	The Kite Runner
Director:	Marc Forster
Score:	1/6
Aborted after:	30 minutes.

Some Will Ferrel movies are funny, but this isn’t one of them.

Title:	Land of the Lost
Director:	Brrad Silberling
Score:	1/6
Aborted after:	40 minutes.

Have you ever sighed disapprovingly at celebrity fandom and thought “where will it end?” Brandon Cronenberg has, and presents a suggestion.

Title:	Antiviral
Director:	Brandon Cronenberg
Score:	5/6
IMDB:	5.6.  What’s wrong with you people!?

I made blueberry panna cotta (with real blueberries!):

Title:	Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Director:	Rupert Wyatt
Score:	4/10
Earth:	It was it all along!

I’m not goint to insist that Carpenter never makes a bad movie (cough, Starman), but as usual, he doesn’t disappoint with Ghosts of Mars, completing the conceptual trilogy on a definite upturn.  

Numerous blogs and other besserwissers claims Ghosts of Mars to be heavily influenced by Rio Bravo and Zulu, and since I never got around to seeing any of them I thought I’d see for myself.  It is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but I get what they’re on about.

All in all a memorable experience, even if Zulu stank, if I’m honest.

Title:	Ghosts of Mars
Director:	John Carpenter
Score:	7/10
Award for:	Best soundtrack, as always.