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Hey folks. Capone in Chicago here, with a brief look at the latest from New Zealand.
There are several candidates for most divisive film in the last five years, but I would have to nominate NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, a film I was lucky enough to discover about two months before it was released, before I'd read a single word about it, in fact. I walked in unsuspecting and came out thoroughly entertained. I'm sure many of you will dismiss or accept my opinion on Eagle Vs. Shark based on my extreme like of DYNAMITE, which is fine I guess, but not especially open minded. EAGLE VS. SHARK will be compared to that film countless times by critics, and the comparison seems both unavoidable and understandable, if not entirely fair. For one thing, this is a far more adult work, even if the characters seem hopelessly awkward. I absolutely fell in love with the sweet Lily (Loren Horsley), as fast-food worker who daydreams about the "handsome" Jarrod (Jemaine Clement, one half of HBO's new series "Flight of the Conchords").
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've posted much about this movie since seeing it last January at Sundance. It's a sweet movie, a funny movie, a quirky movie. I did an interview with the stars and director, which I'll try to get out to you guys by this weekend. In the meantime, here's a reader review! Enjoy!!!
So I saw a screening of this movie called Eagle vs. Shark. With one of the guys fromm Flight of the Conchords. This movie is very funny. It plays out like a cross between Naopleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. This might be the best movie of the year so far. This fine movie is about love. Awkward love. You know the kind of love from maybe middle school or elementary school where the girl likes the boy but does not know how talk to him so she hits him and runs away and vice/versa. That awkward, but it is not with 5th graders. It is with late twenty/early 30 somethings having these problems.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I caught this at Sundance (read the review here!) and loved it. Sure, I have an unhealthy love of all things New Zealand, but I've seen shitty NZ films before. The comedy in this one reaches past the two islands in the southern hemisphere. Great, quirky little movie this is. And I'm not alone in thinking so. Here's a review from a recent college screening of the film! Enjoy!!!
Magic Lantern Films, in cooperation with UCSB, put on a free showing of the new comedy-romance from New Zealand, Eagle vs Shark. In short, this is a film worth paying full admission for; the Napoleon Dynamite comparisons are inevitable, but ultimately superficial, because unlike that film, Eagle vs Shark actually has respect for its characters and setting, and is something different than a straight-out lampoon.
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Greetings humans, Monki here with my last batch of reviews from the Bermuda International Film Festival.
It's hard to put in words how awesome the entire festival was. The films were entertaining, the people were friendly, the panels were informative and the island was beautiful. Everything you could ever hope for in a film festival.
Military Intelligence and You!
This film could be the start of a new genre of movies. Director Dale Kutzera dug through the national archives and pulled out vintage World War II films and seamlessly blended the older footage with new scenes shot explicitly for the movie. What you get is a biting satire based on the U.S.'s military strategy of 'attack first, find evidence later.'
The film acts as an extended news reel sequence you might have seen in Starship Troopers, only set here on Earth in the 1940s. In fact, Patrick Muldoon (he had his brain sucked out in front of that chick from Wild Things at the end of Starship Troopers) is the lead male actor in this film and the narrator sounds strikingly similar to the "Would you like to know more?" voice from that movie as well.
Military Intelligence and You! could certainly lead filmmakers to going back into the archives and digging up footage. I mean, how else will you get to have Ronald Reagan in one of your films? (Yes, the former president makes an appearance in this film.) I've read somewhere about someone thinking of remixing films (Mike Meyers, I think) and this film seems to be the first successful attempt.
If you pay attention you will also find little nuggets of hilarity, pay close attention to the dialogue between two pilots making an attack run, Red Leader and Gold Leader in particular.
Military Intelligence and You! is a fun poke at the state of naivety in our country right now, I had a good time with it.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another pair of reviews, one from a radically messed up movie that I thought was going to be a flat out comedy and the other of a quirky, oddball comedy.
THE NINES
The plot description I read said the film was broken into three parts, with the same three actors being the constant in each story. It sounded like they were going to experiment with different genres and play around with preconceived notions of the actors involved, giving them each something different to do within the span of a single film.
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