Sunday, October 26, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Fresh off the web
The world of blaxploitation has lost one of its heroes. I am talking about the badass Dolemite. The legacy of the signified monkey will live on. For those of you who do not know who he was, well he was a maverick of 1970s black cinema. His real name was Rudy Ray Moore. Part Poet. Part Pimp. He was rapping before rap was cool. And he was, at times, quite fucking hilarious.
Here is something for you all to see.
Censored or uncensored Rudy Ray Moore will be remembered.
For those of you who want something cleaner, here is the badass Dolemite on Arsenio Hall Show
Peace.
Here is something for you all to see.
Censored or uncensored Rudy Ray Moore will be remembered.
For those of you who want something cleaner, here is the badass Dolemite on Arsenio Hall Show
Peace.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Just Don't...
It's becoming a trend that when I come to work, I search the internet for things to entertain me. Maybe I should start working harder, or maybe I should find a job that's more stimulating. Either way, I don't give a shit because I get paid to watch senseless humor on the internet. I found this video on Funny or Die and, totally agreeing with it's political statement, decided to share it with you fellas:
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Film Review: Mother of Tears
Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" Trilogy has concluded and for those familiar with the films "Suspiria" & "Inferno" it was a long time coming. "In Suspiria", we see the death of the Mother of Sighs, In "Inferno" tells the story of the Mother of Darkness and the Mother of Tears is the third most beautiful and vicious of them all. The general concept of the films comes from the book Suspiria de Profundis, the sequel to Thomas De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater which is vaguely hinted at in the movie Mother of Tears.
Argento is a edgy storyteller who is not afraid to go there with the gore and blood. Translation: if he cannot scare you, he will go for the gross out. I like that about him.
Well, the story of the Mother of Tears begins at an archaeological dig in which a priest finds a bizarre urn on top of a coffin buried since the 16Th century. The Urn contains three statues representing the 3 mothers and a talisman that belongs to the dreaded Mother of Tears. The urn is sealed and sent to Rome for study. As it turns out, Rome is right where the urn belonged. Unknowingly, Sarah and her colleague break the seal and unearth the contents of the urn and release a demonic plague that effects everyone in the city. Also, unknowingly, Sarah is the only one who can stop the Mother of Tears before she ushers in a second age of witches onto the earth.
Argento chose to put his daughter Asia Argento as the lead character Sarah, an American art student with latent supernatural powers of her own. Asia Argento is also a filmmaker as well as an actress. Very beautiful, she played the part well. Undoubtedly, she must have been familiar with her father's work. Even with her accent heavily pronounced in some scenes she was believable as a naive American damsel in distress.
As a whole, the film was scary, without being pretentious, and sexual without being too pornographic.
There is a scene in which a woman is impaled vaginally with a spear for daring to give Sarah safe haven in her apartment. A boy is gutted on a slab and eaten by demons. I could go on.
The ending is the only thing I have a problem with. Sarah supposedly has powers. She could have learned to use those powers and defeated her witchy foe or not. But, in the end, the all powerful Mother of Tears went out like a bag of trash. See the movie to see what I mean. No spoilers on this one.
I will say this movie has its flaws and failures. But so does Suspiria and Inferno and they are still great films. So is Mother of Tears. It was a long time coming but I am glad I saw it.
Argento is a edgy storyteller who is not afraid to go there with the gore and blood. Translation: if he cannot scare you, he will go for the gross out. I like that about him.
Well, the story of the Mother of Tears begins at an archaeological dig in which a priest finds a bizarre urn on top of a coffin buried since the 16Th century. The Urn contains three statues representing the 3 mothers and a talisman that belongs to the dreaded Mother of Tears. The urn is sealed and sent to Rome for study. As it turns out, Rome is right where the urn belonged. Unknowingly, Sarah and her colleague break the seal and unearth the contents of the urn and release a demonic plague that effects everyone in the city. Also, unknowingly, Sarah is the only one who can stop the Mother of Tears before she ushers in a second age of witches onto the earth.
Argento chose to put his daughter Asia Argento as the lead character Sarah, an American art student with latent supernatural powers of her own. Asia Argento is also a filmmaker as well as an actress. Very beautiful, she played the part well. Undoubtedly, she must have been familiar with her father's work. Even with her accent heavily pronounced in some scenes she was believable as a naive American damsel in distress.
As a whole, the film was scary, without being pretentious, and sexual without being too pornographic.
There is a scene in which a woman is impaled vaginally with a spear for daring to give Sarah safe haven in her apartment. A boy is gutted on a slab and eaten by demons. I could go on.
The ending is the only thing I have a problem with. Sarah supposedly has powers. She could have learned to use those powers and defeated her witchy foe or not. But, in the end, the all powerful Mother of Tears went out like a bag of trash. See the movie to see what I mean. No spoilers on this one.
I will say this movie has its flaws and failures. But so does Suspiria and Inferno and they are still great films. So is Mother of Tears. It was a long time coming but I am glad I saw it.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Something to brighten your Halloween...
Since I've already bought my Halloween costume (and I've been looking for one since August), I figured I should post a couple of good trailers for the best holiday EVER. Some are not in English, but who said we need to understand hot booberific woman in sheer terror?
Dos Sno (a Norweigan zombie pic about reanimated Nazi soldiers)
http://www.joblo.com/video/joblo/player.php?video=deadsnow
Sexykiller (Think Paris Hilton and Hannibal Lector combined)
http://www.joblo.com/video/joblo/player.php?video=Sexykiller---Trailer-Final
Dead Girl (A film I will for sure not go see this Halloween, but the boys seem to like it...)
http://www.deadgirlmovie.com/sneak/index.html
Dos Sno (a Norweigan zombie pic about reanimated Nazi soldiers)
http://www.joblo.com/video/joblo/player.php?video=deadsnow
Sexykiller (Think Paris Hilton and Hannibal Lector combined)
http://www.joblo.com/video/joblo/player.php?video=Sexykiller---Trailer-Final
Dead Girl (A film I will for sure not go see this Halloween, but the boys seem to like it...)
http://www.deadgirlmovie.com/sneak/index.html
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