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[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Last night.... Caged Heat, which is still a really loopy film (Shout!'s DVD looks good though) and A Film Unfinished, which was a documentary about Nazi propaghanda films and which, as interesting as it was, is not exactly feel good movie of the year material. Very interesting from a historical perspective though.

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last night...Teenage Twins, some Russ Meyer BBC doc from 5 or 6 years ago, and Incredibly Strange films Vol.1 with John Waters from the Discovery Channel. Don't know when though.

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Rewatched Mr. Vampire (1985) again last night, for something I'm working on for the next issue of Screem. I forgot just how damn good the film is! Really one of the greats of HK cinema. :)

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It's a fun one.

Last night? Driller, the XXX Thriller parody.

WTF? Full review forthcoming. I don't even know if screen caps can quite get across just how bizarre this film is.

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Bed now...but just finished revisiting Story of Ricky (for a certain review blog, so expect it soon). Actually gorier than I remember it, and also much lower budget than I remembered too! They obviously made it on a shoestring, and the wires and wire-rigs are visible everywhere. But nothing stops it being the completely berserk entertainment that it is! I learnt a few new things this time around, too: Louis Fan is son of old school kung fu star Fan Mei Shing, Johnnie To veteran Lam Suet appears briefly in a very early role and Phillip Kwok (of Five Venoms and Shaw fame) did the action choreography! Ricky also inspired Josie Ho to produce Dream Home... ;)

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DEXTER Season 1

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Last night I watched a 70s era Thai film called Killer Elephants. It was dumb, but it had one remarkable scene where a guy knocks himself out by running under an elephant during a fight only to collide with the elephants dong. So it had that going for it.

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...but it had one remarkable scene where a guy knocks himself out by running under an elephant during a fight only to collide with the elephants dong. So it had that going for it.

Does the scene have amusing sound? Maybe you could sample it and send it to Paul as a ringtone? Or just get a frame-grab and forward it as a wallpaper for his phone... :)

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I'm having a NYC film weekend. Watched DO THE RIGHT THING yesterday, followed by FRENCH CONNeCTION, TAKING OF PELHAM 123, and THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK.

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No Warriors? No Taxi Driver?

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Warriors will be last. Taxi Driver when I get theblu. :-)

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Taxi Driver is so definitive.

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Does the scene have amusing sound?

It was kind of a thud. You can see screencaps of the scene here.

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Now that I've seen it, here's my comparison review:

Female Prisoner # 701: Scorpion is akin to fine dining. I get a nice entre of king prawns in garlic butter served on a bed of rice, followed by a delicious lobster mornay with a fresh, crisp garden salad side-dish, rounded out with a scrumptious desert and fine coffee liquer chaser. HK/Japanese remake Sasori, on the other hand, is like sitting down and expecting all of that, but being served up a cold bag of greasy, soggy chips (french fries) and a flat can of Diet-Sprite...that is half empty and looks like someone spat in it.

Voila! Review done!

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Awesome.