There are so many peculiar little things stuffed into King of California -- the notion of a crazy man possibly being genius, the fantasy of finding buried treasure, the novelty of using a metal detector, the possibility of buying a clunker over eBay (and being under age), the odd visual of tract housing suburban sprawl eating your quiet rural home (and you can resist, and it just builds up around you), the harsh reality of working at McDonalds, that some people's parents are stoners who are in bands, that sulfur springs exist, and the list goes on and on and on. Maybe none are exactly idiosyncratic (other than Michael Douglas's character), but it is rife with kitch or irony or cliché or something funky that I liked.
And Michael's performance as a kook is just priceless... he crazy kills it. And Evan Rachel Wood is just adorable to a level that makes her pretty hot (to the extent that you can't hardly imagine that she needs to work at Mickey D's or has to drive a beater like that, I mean, there's gotta be a sugar daddy [or a post high school graduate pervert] willing to take care of a cute high school drop-out). Anyway,
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This movie is somethin' else. From what I can tell, the director of this documentary (Chris Bell) titled Bigger, Stronger, Faster has about as much experience behind the lens, as his entire family has in cumulative edumacation. But f*ck... he made one h*ll of a good movie.
Totally unbiased, well researched, empathetic and more personal than you can imagine. See... Chris (not pictured here) is a meat-head himself, as are, his two brothers. They grew up totally obsessed with professional wrestlers while being overweight kids coming from parents who are totally tubby themselves. They become body-image obsessed and on a mission to become either power lifters or professional wrestlers (except Chris who somehow got just enough sense to take a step back and look at how f-ed up it all was). But there's way more going on here... watch the movie trailer and read on because...
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Eghads... running late on writing a post. But totally thankful that my buddy came over the other day and nearly saw me fall down on my face from being so totally wasted from watching films. I was completely at a creative block from not being inspired to write a post about anything that I've gorged upon. And then, out of nowhere, he surfaced a movie that I had seen long ago and had been so utterly amazed by it that I must have gone for months telling people about it. How I could have done that and then had if entirely fall from my memory banks, I just don't know. I'm doomed. So... I will give him a shout out... Burning Pictures.
If you couldn't tell from the pic, the film is called The Butcher Boy. Holy f-ing sh*t. The film is fantastical and imaginative and blunt. And this kid is so intense that you'll be completely scared of him -- an Irish bully on the edge with a fat head and freckles. Even worse, he's got a f*cked up home, and he starts to even loose his mind a bit as it appears... and what he is capable, well, I won't tell you if he does anything or not, but those hanging pigs have it lucky. Watch the movie trailer and read on because...
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