Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Popfilter’s Foriegn Flick of the Week
Greece’s Dogtooth A few years ago, an art exhibit in Brooklyn featured painting of a black Virgin Mary splattered with elephant feces. Not surprisingly, this got people talking. Soon enough there was a nationwide debate about what art is suppose to be and, since the exhibit received government money, whether the taxpayers should subsidize “offensive†art.…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Japan’s My Neighbor Totoro or “The Anti Disney-Princess Fantasy Movie somehow still brought to you by Disney” Okay, that retitle is a little misleading. My Neighbor Totoro is a film by legendary animator and director Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) and released in 1988. It…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Sweden’s Let the Right One In Let the Right One In came out in 2008 and directed by Tomas Alfredson. It is the story of a lonely boy named Oskar who befriends a strange girl who moves in next door named Eli. There is something a little…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Mexico’s Y Tu Mamá También (WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY) When I started telling people I was writing an article on this movie, their reactions ranged from, “Wow, that’s a really great movie!” to “Hey! That was the first movie I ever jacked off to.”…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Germany’s Run Lola Run Released in 1998, Run Lola Run is arguably the most popular and recognizable German film in the United States. It tells the story of Lola, a free spirited woman who has to raise 100,000 Deutschmarks in 20 minutes to save her small-time…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica France’s The Past My last review of a foreign film, and this article’s debut, was of Kung Fu Hustle. I picked that movie for this feature’s first ever because I felt that it flew in the face of the stereotypes so commonly associated with foreign movies…
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China’s Kung Fu Hustle This article is a brand new feature here at PopFilter in which I review a foreign film that I think is worth watching. Foreign films are a little too, well, foreign. The United States has such a large and profitable movie industry and suffers from militant xenophobia which causes big Hollywood…
Read MoreThe Big Dirty Article “Shutter Island: You don’t like good things” by Tim Appelbaum On a whole, people don’t like things that are good. You may think you enjoy good things, but you’re wrong; everything has to be great. If it’s not the best film of the year, “it sucks†and you take away from…
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Let’s talk about douchebags and the women who love them, if we could for a moment. You see it time and time again; it pushes the mind to the brink of understanding when we see a perfectly nice lady in a relationship with a skuzzy, dumb-as-shit dude who also treats her like garbage. If you…
Read MoreLiam Neeson Was Not In Battleship
The Big Dirty Article “Liam Neeson Was Not In Battleship†by Tim Appelbaum After watching the trailers, I really wanted to see this movie. As I was watching it, I really wanted to enjoy it, but the film just would not let me. It didn’t give me anything to grasp as a redeeming element.…
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