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Author: Alton Williams

  • Cockhammer – Sledge’s Review

    Firstly, you cannot take this film too seriously, it’s called COCKHAMMER, and it’s the most recent of the canon of Hack Movies – please, check out their website.

    It’s not a well made film in any sort of way. But what you will see is a LOT of breasts. Russ Meyer would be making these types of films if he was alive today…

    The film is chock full of cheap stoner and college style humour and gags, and it has that homemade, friends together feel to it, especially when it comes to it’s special effects. It did make me laugh in a few places, and it will annoy and shock most, which I think is the point of both Cockhammer and Hack Movies.

    Dopeheads Terrence and Perander send their nymphomaniac girlfriends out to pick up some drugs and sex toys. Amazingly, the girls get kidnapped by two hitmen who are working for a wizard type who becomes a evil beast. That beast is Cockhammer. I think you can guess the outcome….

    The two girlfreinds are charming and have most of the funny business although THEY CANNOT ACT.

    This film is a “so bad it’s good” thing going for it. That’s it really.

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  • Spike Jonze Is A Wild Thing

    Thank you to Live For Films for this interview with Spike Jonze, director of Where The Wild Things Are.

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  • Poster Roundup




    Here you go, you lucky people…
    Click on them. They go bigger.

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  • Capitalism: A Love Story – Swiss Poster

    Here is the Swiss poster for Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. Thanks to Mike Markus.

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  • China Classic Film Festival – And The Spring Comes


    As promised, here is the short review for And The Spring Comes, the opening film at The China Classic Film Festival.

    And The Spring Comes

    Firstly, I just wanted to thank Alton for letting me share my thoughts with you all.

    Set in China in the mid-eighties, this movie is about ordinary people who dreamed to become better ones, to be artists. This is a a similar theme to the director’s last film, Peacock.

    It’s well written and directed. Even though it’s a sad story, it has some silly humour to make you smile now and again, which works really well, it cuts through the drama nicely.

    There are some beautiful looking shots of a traditional pagoda. Some stunning cinematography. The scenes in the city are lush, with a contrast between the greys and browns of the boxes and the colours of the clothing.

    I thought was a wonderful film and I think it should be pushed out for the mainstream to savour.
    Hopefully this film could be the start of more Chinese films out there in the cinemas.

    Jacq

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