Directed By: Larry Charles
There is little that is subtle about the Borat film – it’s a “make sex on your face” kind of experience, an onslaught of Jew, Gay, “foreign”, Baptist and Texan jokes. It’s also very, very funny. The film, part road movie, part SNL-style skit fest, holds together as a narrative quite well. Borat travels across [...]
Read moreIt’s best described as a Maoist gay porn flick. Still interested? Impossible to grade by any common standard, RASPBERRY REICH just didn’t do it for me. It’s not sly enough to amuse, not sexy enough to be erotic, nor inquisitive enough to live up to its ambitions towards erudition. I have to hand it to [...]
Read moreA good example of a film that would have been far better during the day – it was just too complicated and too wordy to keep me awake at 2am. A stylish serial killer film, there nonetheless was too much talk and not enough madness.
Read moreIn North America (and much of the world), the phrase “animated film with musical numbers” is likely to invoke images of Disney. But not everywhere; in Asia, home-grown animation is king, with especially the Japanese “anime” the recipient much of popular and critical acclaim. The Chinese (and those in Hong Kong) have also been carving [...]
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