Stars: Shend, Gary Baxter, Caroline Munro, Annabella Rich, Dani Thompson, Lynn Lowry, Martin W. Payne, Michael Fausti, Lou Nosbod, Bazz Hancher | Written and Directed by Thomas Lee Rutter
The Pocket Film of Superstitions opens with a title card that reads “The Following Moving Picture Presentation May Contain Scenes of Irreverence”, and irreverent is a very apt way to describe the latest film from writer/director Thomas Lee Rutter.
It’s shot with the visual stylings of an old silent movie complete with the blue tint they used to indicate a night scene and the occasional title card. But it isn’t a silent film, there are sound effects and occasional short exchanges of dialogue. But most of the information is relayed to the viewer via narration by Shend, which is probably the best choice for a film like this.
That’s because The Pocket Film of Superstitions is, for all intents and purposes,...
The Pocket Film of Superstitions opens with a title card that reads “The Following Moving Picture Presentation May Contain Scenes of Irreverence”, and irreverent is a very apt way to describe the latest film from writer/director Thomas Lee Rutter.
It’s shot with the visual stylings of an old silent movie complete with the blue tint they used to indicate a night scene and the occasional title card. But it isn’t a silent film, there are sound effects and occasional short exchanges of dialogue. But most of the information is relayed to the viewer via narration by Shend, which is probably the best choice for a film like this.
That’s because The Pocket Film of Superstitions is, for all intents and purposes,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Time is a strange thing. Scientists say a watch travelling in a jet will experience time more slowly than the same watch in a tug boat. It won't slow the watch down - it literally experiences time differently. Speed affects time, basically. Which probably explains why Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of those very rare films that feels long, but is never boring. Time slows down for it because it moves so fast.
It's also very much a product of its time. Terminator 2 is a violent film, made in a violent period of history. According to James Cameron, the Rodney King beating didn't just take place near the biker bar they shot Arnie's opening scenes in, it happened on a night Terminator 2 was filming. There's something too eerie about that story for it not to be true. After all, what was more prescient in 1991 than the sight of an...
It's also very much a product of its time. Terminator 2 is a violent film, made in a violent period of history. According to James Cameron, the Rodney King beating didn't just take place near the biker bar they shot Arnie's opening scenes in, it happened on a night Terminator 2 was filming. There's something too eerie about that story for it not to be true. After all, what was more prescient in 1991 than the sight of an...
- 6/28/2015
- Digital Spy
Somewhere in the hard rock and metal cosmos, Blackie Lawless was granted the same passage as Overkill, Motorhead and AC/DC where recording the same album over and over again is considered his charm and not his stigma.
Those following W.A.S.P. over the years will testify once Blackie Lawless officially grabbed hold of the reins of the group (some say as early as its inception), he sentenced W.A.S.P.’s creative flux to be held in check by exhausted three chord progressions. Suffice it to say, he’s maintained a career with those chords. Those, plus a Who-adoring dedication to dramatic stanza build-ups in the vein of Tommy and Quadrophenia, which get implemented as many as three times per W.A.S.P. album.
Once the Lawless one changed his rowdy ways, ditching the buzzsaw gauntlet and assless spandex (you wonder how many times he...
Those following W.A.S.P. over the years will testify once Blackie Lawless officially grabbed hold of the reins of the group (some say as early as its inception), he sentenced W.A.S.P.’s creative flux to be held in check by exhausted three chord progressions. Suffice it to say, he’s maintained a career with those chords. Those, plus a Who-adoring dedication to dramatic stanza build-ups in the vein of Tommy and Quadrophenia, which get implemented as many as three times per W.A.S.P. album.
Once the Lawless one changed his rowdy ways, ditching the buzzsaw gauntlet and assless spandex (you wonder how many times he...
- 11/16/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr.)
- Fangoria
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