Category: Movies
Movie related items.
Synecdoche, New York – Trailer
This is the first I’ve heard or seen of this movie, the trailer makes it look interesting enough. And I like Philip Seymour Hoffman as an actor so I’ll probably give it a shot.
The Story of a Sign
This is a fantastic short film that was short story winner of the Cannes Festival, 2008.
[via: adnstream.tv]
5 Best Scary Movies
I’ve seen lists of best horror films before, and those lists are full of shit. One listed The Blair Witch Project as one of the best horror movies. Seriously. Another listed Shaun of the Dead, that was a fucking comedy! I don’t know who makes these lists, but they clearly suck at making lists so I figured I’d make my own. Oh, and I’m not listing anything from the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, or 50’s.
I give you my list of the 10 best horror films, in no particular order:
Se7en
I don’t know how this movie doesn’t end up on more “best” lists. Some try to argue semantics and say that this movie was a “thriller” and/or “mystery” rather than a “horror”. That’s a piss poor argument in my book. At any rate, the casting was excellent and the story was even better. The entire movie was pretty creepy and I don’t know anyone who wasn’t at least a little freaked out when they found the “sloth” victim.
Lorenzo’s Oil boy is dead at 30
Lorenzo Odone, whose parents’ battle to save him from a rare nerve disorder was depicted in the 1992 film Lorenzo’s Oil, has died from pneumonia aged 30.
Most everyone, apparently except my wife, remembers this movie. A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.
Or…
Until about the age of 7, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves in the hope of discovering something which can halt the progress of the disease.
[via: IMDB]
P.S. If you haven’t realized yet, this is based on a true story.