Here they are: the glam, choker necklaced, Rodger Daltrey'd, Satanic Majesties Requested, vampire clan; and if you're wondering where your wife is, she's in the castle next door getting a good fanging, along with your little girl, since clearly consent is not exactly a concept they understand.
And over here are the villagers, pale, spineless, plague-addled idiots who, even when they finally get the energy to form a lynch mob aren't really clear on how to finish the job. It's…
In the year One Million Years B.C., tarantulas and iguanas have grown to giant size, but anacondas and vultures must've been "early evolvers" and look the same as today. Stop-motion dinosaurs also roam among the giants: T-Rex and Triceratops and Brontosauruses galore. In the year One Million Years B.C., man also lives among the dinosaurs! This is 100% historically accurate, according to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. There's even an exhibit there of a cave boy feeding a Velociraptor a…
Most viewers come to this film looking for more Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung/Yuen Biao action. Especially for Chan. And that's always been the case, even when the film was first released. Jackie Chan's presence eclipsed the rest of the film for most viewers. Take a look at the alternate end credits for the Japanese release - included on the Shout! Factory Blu-ray - and you can see it's a clip reel of all the times that Chan was on the screen.…
I wasn't connecting with this film at all, until I switched from the English dub to the Japanese. Unlike all the other Ghibli studio releases I've seen so far, the English dub is a disaster. Dev Patel doesn't fit his character at all and Daisy Ridley is just too flat. Later, watching the behind the scenes, I discovered that unlike most anime, Only Yesterday began production with the two lead voice actors delivering their lines together, and then the animation…
This isn't a movie. This is more like a visual album. Each murder is a track, "Bats", "Locusts", and so on, the Ten Plagues of Egypt, re-imagined in the style of a murderous Batman or Avengers TV episode. Vincent Price leads his mechanical band on the organ. The end credits might clue you in on who to root for and who is just part of the ensemble, organized into "Interested Parties", "The Law", "The Victims", "The Girl" (the wonderfully enigmatic…
Peter Ustinov and David Niven are a detective dream team. I've never much cared for the fastidious little Belgian Poirot, but damn if Ustinov doesn't keep his eccentricities but also show his compassion. It's all in the delivery.
Also, hey, remember back in the days when if you wanted to make a movie about a death on the Nile, you would take the cast and fly to Egypt and get on a boat on the fucking Nile? Those were the days.
