APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Antichrist (2009)
April 11: Upsetting — What movie upsets you? Write about it and share it. While I was watching this movie, my wife came downstairs, upset about our neighbor and the way he leaves garbage all over the street. In the middle of being upset that I don’t want to fight the guy, she looked at […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Enter the Void (2009)
April 11: Upsetting — What movie upsets you? Write about it and share it. Enter the Void was director and co-writer (with Lucile Hadzihalilovic) Gaspar Noé’s dream project for years and made possible after the commercial success of his just as upsetting — if not more so — movie Irréversible. Drug dealer Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: The Sissy (2009)
April 9: Easter Sunday – You don’t have to believe to watch and share a religious movie. I’ve been obsessed with Jack Chick since a copy of The Beast brutalized me when I was a kid. It’s hard to explain my love of Chick’s work, because he made near-hateful attacks on other religions and on nearly […]
Arrow Video The Lukas Moodysson Collection: Mammoth (2009)
Leo (Gael García Bernaland) and Ellen (Michelle Williams) are, from the outside, a success. He’s created a website that has made them rich while she dedicates her life to saving lives as an emergency surgeron. Their daughter Jackie (Sophie Nyweide) is being raised mostly by their nanny Gloria (Marife Necesito) while they all lead their […]
AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Graveyard of the Dead (2009)
Also known as Erotic Nights of the Blind Dead and El Retorno de los Templarios, this shot on video homage to the work of Amando de Ossorio can’t live up to the master but it tries with more screams and more sleaze than even he would try. I mean, the main story is about Miranda being […]
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)
This was Sherman Hemsley’s last movie and not his worst — Ghost Fever may be one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched and just drink in how bad that must make it — and also the sixth American Pie film. It starts with Rob Shearson (Bug Hall, who was Alfalfa in the modern Little Rascals) masturbating with a sandwich, […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: Homecoming (2009)
Directed by Morgan J. Freeman (American Psycho 2) and written by Katie L. Fetting, Jake Goldberger and Frank Hannah, this Pittsburgh-filmed movie features scenes at Shady Side Academy, North Allegheny High School, a community center in Midway and a farm in Bell Township. It starts strong with Mischa Barton driving and crying and just running […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: Survival of the Dead (2009)
The last film in the Living Dead series and the final film George Romero would make before he died in 2017, Survival of the Dead is a movie I’ve avoided for some time. He told Bloody Disgusting, “…the idea was to make a film about war or entities that don’t die, conflicts, disagreements that people can’t resolve, whether […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
Ah, Pennsylvania’s once amazing filming tax credits, which brought a remake of a Canadian slasher to the City of Bridges — well, Kittanning, Bethel, Tarentum, Oakmont, Oakdale and the North Hills — and was smart enough to hire two of our local favorites, stage actor Bingo O’Malley and Tom Atkins, who I don’t need to […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: Adventureland (2009)
I love Pittsburgh to the point that even talking about it makes me tear up a bit. Rick Sebak’s voice makes my soul weep. And yet I hate Kennywood. Maybe it’s because I dislike waiting in lines. Perhaps it’s because my parents didn’t have the money to take us there. It could also because they […]
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