tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46301510935041439542009-12-06T01:33:41.574-08:00Filmmaker/amateur-critic Ross Williams reviews every single movie he watches. From family films with his son, to obscure horror flicks; he watches and reviews them all, also includes trailers and/or film clips with every post.Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-32775049989289375902009-08-15T23:16:00.000-07:002009-08-16T14:25:14.331-07:00

I'm watching this film, because I vaguely remember the cheesy video cover from when I was a kid, but never got to see the film. Now it's playing on MGM-HD, with the film's descripition reading - A detective and doctor tie rapes to bug-eyed aliens who are posing as humans in order to multiply. Sounds too hilarious to pass up. Opening few minutes - A prostitute leaves a taxi cab in a bad part of

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(Way off the topic of movies, but I'm sick of being quiet about this.)Proverbs 14:31 “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.”What is wrong with you America? You propose to be a Christian country, but you care nothing about the poor who can't afford insurance. I believe if Jesus actually came back, you wouldn't listen to what he had

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I'm getting pretty sick of the all the recent vampire love... I always thought they were a bunch of pussies compared to werewolves. So I'm really looking forward to the latest film of the genre The Wolf Man, starring Benicio Del Toro. With no trailer out, I thought I'd have a crack at creating my first trailer mash-up. I cut clips from a ton of werewolf flicks, like The Howling, American

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If you've been following this blog, you've obviously noticed the serious lack of movie reviews this summer. That mostly has to do with my new job. I haven't had the time to write, that I did in the not too distant past. I miss writing, but the few spare moments I have, I don't feel like taxing my brain any further. My 140 word Twitter reviews are about all I can handle. I've had some thoughts

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When it was first announced the internet fanboys went balistic that McG was directing a film in this beloved series. With everybody getting a chance to see Terminator Salvation today, I believe that everybody will be singing McG's praises tomorrow. He got written off early because of his goofy name and the cheesiness of his first film Charlie's Angels. But I'd like to be on the record to say

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As a huge horror fan, I've been really underwhelmed by the 8 Films to Die For series. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a wonderful idea. Then when I got a chance to actually watch the films themselves, I was very disappointed. I think that The Abandoned was the only film that was really worthwhile out of the first set of 8. When the second set of films came out, the first film I

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I hadn't heard anything about Alien Trespass, until I ran across a small review in Entertainment Weekly. Looks like something right up my alley, a smartly done spoof of sci-fi films from the 50's. It's not exactly the most original idea, with Monsters vs. Aliens out at the moment. And I've seen a few films like this before, Strange Invaders comes to mind, among a few others whose titles escape

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Without doing any research I'm guessing that writer/director Chris Lusvardi is a child of the 80's. Man Maid an independent film made in 2008, feels exactly like a stereotypical 80's comedy. There's the so-called weak and/or nerdy lead male character, this time personified by Vincent, a cleaning man who works in a small town hotel. At the beginning of the film we see him taunted and teased by

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I decided to see Happy Birthday Harris, Malden because it was one of the few comedies playing at my local fest, the Ashland Independent Film Festival. My main reason for seeing it was the trailer below, which I thought made the film look funny in an offbeat way. With the idea of a guy who's psychologically compelled to draw on a mustache every day being something I hadn't seen before. I'm

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The original Sleepaway Camp is one of my favorite 80's slasher flicks. I'd put it right up there with the original Halloween and Friday the 13th. It has the best ending of the genre; if you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about, and if not, rent the movie now. It inevitably had some crappy sequels, part 2 Unhappy Campers & part 3 Teenage Wastland, both made in the 80's, both instantly

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This movie is not for the squeamish. This movie is not even for the average horror fan. To enjoy this film you have to be into some pretty sick shit. Having laughed my way through films like Saw and Hostel, even I found myself getting repulsed at a few of the scenes in this film. This is a movie that is about coming up with the most creative way of killing somebody in a bowling alley. Putting

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With all the talk about Joaquin Phoenix going nuts, we've forgotten about how talented an actor he is. And if he has gone off the deep end and truly retired from acting, which I don't believe for a second, his last film Two Lovers is a great swan song. This is his film. He's in every single scene, with hardly a shot in the film without him in it, and the film is that much better for it. The

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The subtle American comedy is going the way of the dinosaur, everything these days has to be brash, obvious and forgettable five minutes after the movie is over. Why else would we pay to see the same jokes over and over again? You can only see a guy get hit in the nuts so many times before it loses its effect. I wasn't actually expecting a film so well crafted and realistic going into The

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Nobody knows how to create deplorable characters quite like Chuck Palahniuk, and Choke's Victor Mancini is one of his worst. He's a con-artist that purposely chokes on food in restaurants so those who save him will feel obliged to help support him financially. He's a sex addict who's going through rehab without any ambition of actually following through with it, he mostly uses it to pick up on

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Innovated by Cannibal Holocaust, made popular by The Blair Witch Project and turned into an event film with Cloverfield; the first-person horror film has become a whole genre onto itself. The latest film is Quarantine, a remake of the Spanish horror film [Rec]. Which I would have preferred to have seen first, but since it isn't yet available on American DVD, I started here. I knew exactly

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I'm trying something slightly different here, I'm going to throw down some random thoughts while I watch Hell Ride. Lets see how this turns out...1-5 min. - A cool intro to the main dude Pistolero, he's got an arrow in the gut and a pretty girl sitting on his face in the middle of the desert. But I think that's probably going to be the coolest part of the movie. They've started talking more

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I just learned that YouTube has permanently removed my What I Watched Last Night account, wiping out a year's worth of video uploads. Over 150 trailers and clips all posted for this blog. I won't bother complaining, as I was technically doing something "illegal", although I'm only one of a million other folks doing the exact same thing on YouTube. I won't bother uploading any more videos, I

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I figured Zombie Strippers was nothing but a crass cash-in on the recent trend set by the Tarintino and Rodriguez Grindhouse films. Indie-filmmakers using the device of making purposely cheesy movies, with strong streaks of sex and violence to sell it; something fairly easy to pull off on a low-budget. And I was right, but I didn't expect the film to actually be somewhat inspired. Don't get me

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Stuart Gordon burst onto the scene in 1985 with Re-Animator, one of the most creative zombie films ever made. A film that is as funny as it is disgusting, with great creative twists that forever changed how filmmakers mixed horror with comedy. 23 years later that film remains his high-point, but that doesn't mean he isn't a filmmaker worth note, in fact, just the opposite. For the last two

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Being way behind on my reviews, thought I'd catch up on a bunch of movies I watched over the last couple months, while I was out of commission doing a couple of big editing projects. Trying to think up a fun quick way to write a bunch of reviews, I thought of doing them Haiku style. Probably not the most original of ideas, and may turn out to be much harder than I imagined, as I haven't written

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In 1983 Francis Ford Coppola directed two films based on S.E. Hinton novels. Everybody seems to remember The Outsiders, 25 years later it's considered a minor classic. "Stay golden Ponyboy." But I don't think I've ever heard anyone mention Rumble Fish, and after seeing it for the first time, I'm incredibly surprised it isn't better remembered. I think what everybody remembers about The

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After two months away from writing real reviews, I'm trying to make a comeback, but I'm not even sure where to start. I'm typing this, just to get my fingers moving, it seems once I do that, things start to flow. I was at Blockbuster, with a free movie coupon that I had to use by the end of the day. I had no idea what to rent, so I headed to the horror section, my favorite genre. Having seen

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I'm extremely sorry if you're one of my few regular readers. When it rains, it pours, and I've been very busy with editing work. Good for me professionally, bad for What I Watched Last Night. The few times I get here or there to sit down and write, I'm too tired and brain-dead to do so. When I'm writing often, words flow out of me easily and I can write two or three full length reviews in an

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I'm way, way behind on my reviews. I've been busy working, my usual job editing Tony Robbins videos and I also picked up an editing gig for an ultra-low-budget feature, so I don't have nearly enough time to write. I'm 50+ movies behind, so I'm going to pump out a bunch of quick opinions, for films that I don't feel like writing full-length reviews. They're going to be first drafts, so you'll

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Happy Halloween! I've updated my list of horror film reviews, which is my favorite genre of films, if you couldn't tell. _______________________________________________

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