Bunraku brings together two of the most popular movie genres from the East and the West, it's a mix of Western and Samurai flicks, both under the umbrella of "bunraku" puppet theater.
Being a fan of many geeky and/or nerdy things, I take great pleasure when engaging in said geeky activities, whether it's DnD, Magic: The Gathering, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, medieval longsword fighting, you get the picture.
For today's review I have another special treat for you guys, a Romanian film called Nunta Muta, or The Silent Wedding. Considering the fact that I am Romanian, you'd think that I would've gotten to reviewing a Romanian film sooner or later, but you would've been rather wrong seeing as how the majority of movies made in my country aren't really my cup of tea.
The realm of proper sci-fi movies has been rather desolate in the past couple of years. I say 'proper' so as to dissociate real science-fiction from horseshit such as any of the Transformers movies.
To dream is inevitable, and someone must have gotten the idea for this film while dreaming because I don’t see how else it could have come into being through a rational chain of thought.
In a nut-shell, “Waking Life” is a visual compendium of philosophical and social ideas and debates, and a freaky visual at that.
The movie starts off with a bang, both literary and figuratively with an adaptation of the events from “A Death In The Family” – if you are not very well versed in Batman cannon, I don’t want to spoil anything, suffice to say that the events in the introduction set up the plot for the rest of the film.
Today I’m gonna treat you to three movies starring none other than JCVD, oh yes Jean Claude Van Damme himself but just before his peak years at the beginning of the nineties.
This is a good example of how crossing over characters doesn’t always work out. Batman The Brave and the Bold is a great example of how it can work but that is a very different kind of animal since it’s a TV series.
Today I’m gonna treat you to three movies starring none other than JCVD, oh yes Jean Claude Van Damme himself but just before his peak years at the beginning of the nineties.
