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Monday September 17, 2007

NEW MOVIE MONDAYS

Death Proof
Because not enough of you went to see Grindhouse or didn’t get the concept and left half way through, The Weinsteins have broken up Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Tarantino’s Death Proof into two separate films, released separately in a effort to recoup some of the costs. Thanks. Now we’ll have to wait until Christmas or some shit to get the actual full length Grindhouse release if it happens at all. On the slightly more plus side, each of the films are now feature length so if you did see Grindhouse and loved it as much as we did, you get more of it… sort of. But just ask yourself why this had to happen. And whatever you thought, realise the chase sequence is over 18 minutes long and is possibly THE best car chase ever. Fools.


Red Road
It’s a little unsettling to think that everywhere you go there is a camera recording you. Welcome to modern day Britain, specifically Scotland, where CCTVs are everywhere, and behind the camera is an operator whose job it is is to monitor all action and report crimes as they are about to happen. Red Road refers to a poor district in Glasgow and is where a CCTV operator sees a man from her past, someone she believed was in jail, on her monitor. A quiet and tense psychological thriller, it’s filled with surprises and dark twists as the story patiently reveals itself. Filled with a sense of emotional disconnection and psychological isolation it never exposes itself to be what you think it is. Plus there’s a totally unexpected and explicit sex scene about 75 minutes in which really caught us off guar… oh, sorry.


Lucky You
Curtis Hanson seems intent on directing movies about things he doesn’t know anything about. First there was 8 Mile – a pathetic offering that everyone saw because of Eminem, but was also the worst movie about rapping ever. Now he tackles the game of poker, which was probably a really hot subject when this movie was conceived, but has since seen it’s popularity wain. If you’ve ever played poker or watched it on TV, then you’ll probably find this movie insulting. If you’re new to poker, then you’ll probably just find it boring. Props for being decidedly un-Hollywood at every single opportunity, but negative props (nops? negatops? pregatives?) for not realising that sometimes, Hollywood conventions exist for a reason. Like a sandwich with nothing inside it except diet mayonnaise, this movie sucked.


We are Marshall
Ten sports movies we think are better than We Are Marshall:


10 – Six Pack
9 – Space Jam
8 – Varsity Blues
7 – Wimbledon
6 – Death Race 2000
5 – Major League
4 – the Cutting Edge
3 – Lucas
2 – Odd Man Out
1 – Rocky 3