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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 04 August 2017

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In Castlegar, catching up on some films. "Atomic Blonde" with Charlize Theron. Some amazing visuals, period sets, products - the high end of period luxury products, great attention to detail. Fight scenes, amazing, Charlize Theron is a goddess. The music, stylings - recall my youth In jokes - more than I caught, I'm sure - the cinema in East Berlin showing "Stalker", there are others. But overall - the narrative is shaky, uneven, and the characters fail to engage. That said, worth seeing for the set design and Charlize Theron. She kicks ass.

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 19 July 2017

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I finally got around to watching "The Room". As bad as that. Worse. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine. And despite Tommy Wiseau's good natured pretending that it was maybe - possibly intentional, it wasn't. It just looks better to pretend you were being ironic when really you were being heart-stoppingly incompetent and inept.

Nonetheless there's value - everything that you take for granted - even in a bad film - is laid bare and overturned in this, there's the continuity errors, random characters, questionable set choices, contradictory, over-explanatory dialogue, incredibly bad acting and embarrassing love scenes - it's a how-to avoid doing anything right in cinema. Most arts demand a long apprenticeship, wherein the artist learns his or her craft, but in this Wiseau started out - with a 6 Million Dollar budget - as if he'd never seen a film in his life...

Now Seth Rogen and the Franco brothers have made a movie about it entitled "The Disaster Artist", which documents the making of it as recalled by Greg Sestero- trailer below:

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 18 July 2017

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• Alejandro Jodorowsky,

I've posted this before, copyright takedown on the video, I'm posting it again because he is still one of the best filmmakers alive.

A bad film by Jodorowsky is still, by a long shot, a hell of a lot better than any great film by Hollywood.

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I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for this, and when, when, will it come to Castlegar or Nelson? It is so very much a "Nelson" film...

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 10 July 2017

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Another promising movie, which I'd love to see but it may have to wait until I vacation to the big city...I haven't seen a movie forever, and the list keeps growing, the indy/cult films don't always make it out here and seldom are they on my schedule...

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