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[Movie Review] Rubber

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Overview:

Since it’s out of competition debut at the 2010 Cannes Festival, Quinten Dupieux’s RUBBER has been piquing interests across the horror community.

Labeled as “The Killer Tire” movie, Dupieux attempts to outsmart his audience with the tale of Robert, a tire left in the California desert that suddenly finds itself afflicted with a bad case of Life. Confused about its new environment, Robert sets out to discover the world around, using its powers of psychokinesis to blow anything up that crosses its path. It starts small with tin cans and glass bottles, moving upwards to bunnies, scorpions and then human prey. Continue reading →

[Movie Review] House of White Spiders (2010)

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Back in the 90’s there was a glorious resurgence in the Indie movie scene, which busted out gems like Swingers, Clerks and Kids. That era came and went fairly quick and we no longer see those kinds of Indie love fests.

However, the horror genre has always been one to draw the Indie directors. Maybe it’s because of the films they saw as a kid, maybe it’s because horror is well known as being easy to make, but there is a huge amount of Indie horror out there if you want to make the effort to look for it.

House of White Spiders is a low budget indie flick written and directed (along with a bazillion other production roles) by Gregg Taylor. According to IMDB this is Taylor’s first film credit, and if you’re going to go this route, you might as well get your name on it a lot! Continue reading →

[Movie Review] Batman: Under The Red Hood

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First of all, I’m a comic fan from back in the golden age of comics. No, I don’t mean the 50’s and 60’s. I’m talking about the 90’s, the span of time in which comics really grew into their own and started becoming a mainstream and respected medium. A time when Marvel and DC started taking chances with their golden characters, and upstart companies like Dark Horse and Image, independent publishers both, gave the big two runs for their money by publishing books that were risky, adult and contemporary.

Since that time, Marvel and DC grew up drastically, telling stories like The Death of Superman and The Age of Apocalypse, where beloved characters, staples of the their respective universes died, tragically and heartbreakingly.

Even though I was always a marvel fanboy (DC characters were too flawless, too perfect), around that same time, Tim Burton directed the legendary Batman movie, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. This led to Batman: The Animated Series, a series, though produced certainly for children, had very adult themes, artwork and sensibilities. From this point, DC seemed to take a great deal of pride in its animated works, producing the amazing Adventures of Superman, The Adventures of Batman and Robin, Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited. That tradition is continued in DC’s latest feature-length animated batman movie, Batman: Under the Red Hood.

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