Honestly, Japan terrifies me. While American pop culture, with its adolescence fetish, prideful ignorance, superhero love and video-game fantasias, can merely make me queasy, what I see flowing out of Japan triggers a flight response.
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On DVD: The Apocalyptic Poetry of Gamera vs. Barugon
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I know what you’re thinking: At this rate, they’ll get around to remaking even Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things sooner or later. But the new reboot of George A. Romero’s The Crazies is the right kind of remake — the kind that endeavors to squeeze every drop of acid out of its potent scenario, execution-wise, in ways Romero rarely could.
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On DVD: Breck Eisner Does The Crazies Once More With Feeling
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By now the rape-revenge pulp movie is a staple, but in 1971, when Burt Kennedy’s Hannie Caulder leapt upon the anti-western bandwagon, they were brand-new. It was still five years before Lipstick (1976) and six until I Spit on Your Grave (1977) –incidentally two of the most reviled movies of that decade (and bombs to boot) — and Charles Bronson’s Death Wish (1974) was still a few years away, which in any case gave the gun to Bronson, not the woman in question. Did it all start with Burt Kennedy’s modest, Spain-shot paella western?
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New On DVD: Is Hannie Caulder the Original Rape-Revenge Pulp Flick?
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And you didn’t think there was a sucker born every minute. Variety — Variety! — is reporting that theater chain Cinemark had to pull copies of the admittedly scary Paranormal Activity 2 trailer from its theaters in Texas because of audience complaints that it was “too scary.” Upon hearing the news, Paramount executives presumably feigned surprise and then remembered that it was all part of their elaborate marketing campaign. See you at the theater! [ Variety ]
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Paranormal Activity 2 Trailer So Scary It’s Pulled From Theaters (Related: Pigs Fly)
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Not hard to love: When stick-dumb movies just lay out their idiotic premise right in the title — call it the Snakes on a Plane Syndrome — hiding nothing, leaving no recourse for shame or cross-marketing vagueness or anything else, really, that might mess with the movie’s ability to rise or fall on its dubious merits as all movies should. (It could be a Google translation tool.) Steve Pink’s piquant comedy Hot Tub Time Machine is all the title promises and a splash of urine and exactly nothing much more, which is why it’s funny, and why lowered expectations should be a vital area of sociopsychological study for Hollywood publicists. Imagine the manure we wouldn’t have to wade through.
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On DVD: John Cusack Gets Menopausal in Hot Tub Time Machine
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You can’t toss a rock up in the air over a city street without braining someone who has definite but vague ideas about how new electronic media is going to “change everything.” And of course they’re mostly right, while at the same time you wish you could do that all day — toss that rock, brain those people. Movies are still movies, pop songs are still pop, crummy TV shows are still crummy, etc. (The big change is now we expect to get it all for free.) Yet some things have arisen spontaneously, like mushrooms, from the keyboard-console-screen mode of cultural intercourse we’re so enjoying. The epic new, remastered, five-season box set collecting Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles is a perfect example.
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On DVD: Woody Allen Meets Halo in Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles
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This week Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs emerges, like a flood of curdled cream from a giant mutant eclair, onto DVD, and you shouldn’t, if you skipped it, dismiss it as just another digital kids’ cartoon, the kind that usually features penguins or cows and has Patrick Warburton voicing a dim-witted lug character of some type (not that there’s anything wrong with Patrick Warburton or his voicing skills), and blah blah blah. It’s not Pixar, but its not Happy Feet , either. It is in fact a scalding, stomach-churning, essentially Swiftian mockery of Americans, American privilege, and American gluttony. It could not have been made in any other country in the world.
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On DVD: Cloudy With a Chance of Big, Fat, Scathing Satire
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Beginning with an apt, hand-drawn homage to the credits of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood , Jennifer Kroot’s documentary It Came from Kuchar launches you into a movie-movie realm you might not have had a chance to experience before: the eccentric, dimestore film universe of the Brothers Kuchar.
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On DVD: Catching Up With the Kuchars
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The new indie Parking could be pegged as a Taiwanese version of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours , but it’s something altogether odder, less a Road Runner comedy than a simulation of one of those all-night odysseys we’ve all had — when time evaporates and tiny logistical dilemmas drive us insane and eventually it’s morning and something about our lives is different.
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On DVD: Why Parking is One of the Best Straight-to-DVD Releases of the Year
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For all of our CGI -ed Johnny Depp blockbusters, we’ve forgotten how to properly buckle a swash, as it were — costume-action films are now either 99 percent digital hootenanny or buttoned-down Classics Illustrated adaptations. We forget that readers and theatergoers in the 19th century loved their life-or-death mano-a-mano and mad-dash escapes and preposterous physical feats just as we do, which is why pioneering pulp like Alexandre Dumas has never been out of print. Of course, in the ’70s, when the Richard Lester made the best Dumas movies back-to-back, stunts were performed by real people — even, sometimes, the movie stars themselves. And when action involves actual humans, it’s not just merely visceral thrill, but story.
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On DVD: What the ’70s-Era Musketeers Can Teach Us About Action, Bromance and Fun
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