Showing posts with label Film Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film Review. Show all posts

9/15/2008

Tales From the Dead: You Just Crossed Into the J-Zone


by Patricia Lamkin
Special to Asia

Jason Cuadrado may call his first film, Tales From the Dead, a J-Horror homage, but it gives a big nod to his other fascination, The Twilight Zone. “It was so great!” Cuadrado said. “Bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people. J-Horror works with the same themes, so they seem like a natural match.”

4/21/2008

Dengue Fever Shares Musical Journey

by Patricia Lamkin
Special to Asia
Photo courtesy Tracy Blackburn.


Dengue Fever’s Cambodian rock is looming large these days. This rising alternative L.A. band has been touring, getting on film soundtracks and was recently featured on NPR. But the real fascination is their multi-faceted music, and its biggest influence: the sounds of 60's Cambodian pop singers Ros Sereysothea and Sinn Sisamouth, and their Khmer spins on Western rock favorites.

8/22/2005

Film Review: The Baxter

By Patricia Lamkin

Michael Showalter's wholesome but choppy tribute to the screwball comedies of the 30's and 40's, tells the untold story of the guy who is always left at the altar; a guy Showalter calls "the Baxter."

7/25/2005

Film Review: The Warrior

By Patricia Lamkin

A troubled warrior named Lafcadia (Irfan Khan) tires of being sent by his arrogant lord to murder innocent people in the villages of feudal India.

6/27/2005

Film Review: Land of the Dead

By Patricia Lamkin

We all know the classic zombie formula: they're dead but not dead; they move slowly, but they're relentless; they hunger for human flesh, but this isn't brain food; and most importantly, the living work together to survive the undead.

6/25/2005

Film Review: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D

By Patricia Lamkin

Ten-year-old social misfit Max (Cayden Boyd) has finally made some friends. Unfortunately, they live in his dreams.

6/18/2005

Film Review: The Island

By Patricia Lamkin

In The Island, director Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) creates a fast-paced and exciting sci-fi action adventure - one of the best of the summer.

6/03/2005

Film Review: The Life Aquatic

By Patricia Lamkin

In the quirky underwater world of oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray), a cynical and depressed version of Jacques Cousteau, there are man eating jaguar sharks, whimsical and beautiful animated tropical sea creatures, and a delightful guitar player who sings David Bowie covers in Portuguese. Sound appealing? Well, yes... but it's all so very strange.

5/13/2005

Film Review: La Niña Santa ("The Holy Girl")

By Patricia Lamkin

Writer/director Lucrecia Martel walks in familiar territory for many women, who as adolescent girls have experienced sexual advances from older men. What is unfamiliar is the unusual twist in her tale, which strays from the stories most women tell. For in Martel's second film La Niña Santa ("The Holy Girl"), it is the child who becomes the predator, not the man.

5/07/2005

Film Review: Undertow

By Patricia Lamkin

David Gordon Green's UNDERTOW is a poetic, atmospheric thriller with touches of the surreal. After escaping his haunted past and settling deep in rustic Georgia, a widower, John (Durmot Mulroney) carves out a simple life with his sons Chris (Jamie Bell) and Tim (Devon Alan).