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Review: ‘Bellflower’ A Burnt-Out, Bloody, Brave Debut > The Playlist


Fresh from a warm reception at Sundance, Evan Glodell’s “Bellflower” arrives as a turbo charged indictment of male adolescent fantasy and a biting critique of misplaced machismo. A burnt-out, bloody, brave debut, “Bellflower” rides out the fallout from a relationship to a stomach-churning conclusion…or does it?
I really want to see this. Starts on Friday at the Nuart.
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Saw this today. Not fantasy, not horror...just a painful mumblecore flick about repulsive people who have no shortage of funds despite not having anything resembling a job. And, note to the writer/director/lead...vague was it real/wasn't it real dream sequences are not a substitute for good storytelling. Some solid ideas couched in a 'just out of film school' arthouse movie. The incredible finale' that I was promised was a masturbatory mess that made absolutely no sense and resolved nothing. As a matter of fact the film just dissolved into a random image rotation that completely made the first 2/3rds of the movie irrelevant. Adgy will love this movie because it has LGK music selections like Lykki Li.
 
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jerseydevil said:
Saw this today. Not fantasy, not horror...just a painful mumblecore flick about repulsive people who have no shortage of funds despite not having anything resembling a job. And, note to the writer/director/lead...vague was it real/wasn't it real dream sequences are not a substitute for good storytelling. Some solid ideas couched in a 'just out of film school' arthouse movie. The incredible finale' that I was promised was a masturbatory mess that made absolutely no sense and resolved nothing. As a matter of fact the film just dissolved into a random image rotation that completely made the first 2/3rds of the movie irrelevant. Adgy will love this movie because it has LGK music selections like Lykki Li.
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I only just started listening to Lykke Li and I don't much care for her. So there. :P

I guess I'll wait and see if I can get a screener of it. I don't want to drive all the way to the Nuart if it's gonna suck.
 
Oh No They Didn't! - First Set Photos of Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium

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American Gods? I enjoyed it an all but.... pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
 
gescom said:
as if A Song Of Ice And Fire comes without the aid of a Television series fresh on everyone's mind to make it jump about 90 spots ahead of where it should be.
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I put down a Feast for Crows over a week ago and havent been able to pick it up since. I just cant get into it.
 
Movie Review: Ironclad | Geeks of Doom

Well this guy liked it a LOT more than I did, but he makes some good points...

Imagine a low-budget, Roger Corman-produced rip-off of Ridley Scott?s Kingdom of Heaven, only way better, written by John Sayles and directed (and rewritten) by Walter Hill. That?s Ironclad in a nutshell right ****ing there: a hardcore heavy metal medieval war movie that pumps with the clenched fist fury of a 1950s Sam Fuller B-movie epic, and the twisted and gritty aesthetic of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western with an Exxon tanker truck full of Tom Savini?s special red Crayola blood mix and a mighty pair of steel-plated balls big enough to stove in the head of a bridge troll thrown in for good measure. This is one of the best pure action movies we?ll see this year, an old school throwdown between the noble, the insane, and those who are a little bit of both. This is the clash of blood and steel that so many other flicks before it tried to be. Pretenders they can now all be called, because Ironclad is the real deal.
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