Spiritual Exercises, by Olivier Smolders
A series of Olivier Smolders’ short movies, the author of Black Night, which has a chronicle on the website.
Synopsis
Adoration: a young man settles a movie camera fixed in a dark room. He invites in a young woman. They have a romantic dinner. Then, the young woman reads poetry, they drink wine seated on [...]
No right turn, by David Noel BourkeNina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook.
To escape from her weary life she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy, but is fed up of her current lifestyle especially the drunken dreams of Johnny. One night after an argument with Johnny, she storms home where she is abducted by [...]
The good, the bad and the weirdDuring the 30’s in the Mandchourie region, Tae-Goo (”the weird”) steals the mysterious map of a Japanese man which would probably lead to a treasure. Despite the fact that he manages to take the map easily with his gun, the train in which he is travelling is stopped by rascals. Chang Yi, “the bad”, a [...]
Female Prisoner Scorpion : beast stableScorpion is pursued in the subway by the police. At the last minute, she manages to escape them, taking with her one of the policemen’s arm with the handcuff. She takes refuge at a prostitute’s home who has strange relationships with her crazy brother.
The Beast Stable is the third and last movie produced by Shunya [...]
Machine Girl (uk release)The movie, which has been screened in many festival, is not just a gore movie but it has a real scenario which gathers typical Japanese elements. There are yakuzas, sushis, tempuras, girls in school uniforms, ninjas throwing shurikens, a “Hattori Hanzo” clan, expert in handling the sword. The matter comes from the fact that the [...]
No Moriré Sola, from Adrian BoglianoLately, almost all the genres of the 70’s are updated through remakes or takes over of updated ideas. However, there is a genre that remains untouched: the “rape and revenge”. Maybe, it’s because of the “rape” side. If today, torture is not a taboo anymore, sexuality is another issue. We know that in a drama, [...]
Sukiyaki Western DjangoAttracted by a mysterious treasure, the Heike (the reds) come to tyrannize a town to get hold of the gold. Hearing about that, the Genjis (the whites) come to intervene and claim for their share. A war breaks out, in its middle there is a mysterious soldier of fortune who has to choose his side.
Seeing [...]
MartyrsWhether it is a punch in the face for some or like pissing in the wind for others, I was waiting eagerly for the official release of the movie to choose my side and it is definitely the first.
Martyrs is an extreme movie in every sense of the word: not only by its violence (obviously [...]
I will walk like a crazy horse
Is it a curious coincidence seeing the American G. Shannon playing Aden, who runs away from his rich background to live in the desert? An enquiry is organised in parallel to shed light on the recent circumstances of his mother’s death. The seemingly hostile spread of sand will be the setting of an [...]
Bloody Moon, from Jess FrancoJess Franco has never hidden his contempt towards slasher movies, considering all the Friday 13th and consorts like stupid products worth no interest. What is he doing on such a project like Bloody Moon which seems to be a true psycho killer?
A mysterious murderer kills student girls. Miguel is obviously suspected: he is a lewd [...]
ChocolateThai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]
A series of Olivier Smolders’ short movies, the author of Black Night, which has a chronicle on the website.
Synopsis
Adoration: a young man settles a movie camera fixed in a dark room. He invites in a young woman. They have a romantic dinner. Then, the young woman reads poetry, they drink wine seated on [...]
- No right turn, by David Noel Bourke
Nina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook.
To escape from her weary life she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy, but is fed up of her current lifestyle especially the drunken dreams of Johnny. One night after an argument with Johnny, she storms home where she is abducted by [...]
The good, the bad and the weirdDuring the 30’s in the Mandchourie region, Tae-Goo (”the weird”) steals the mysterious map of a Japanese man which would probably lead to a treasure. Despite the fact that he manages to take the map easily with his gun, the train in which he is travelling is stopped by rascals. Chang Yi, “the bad”, a [...]
Female Prisoner Scorpion : beast stableScorpion is pursued in the subway by the police. At the last minute, she manages to escape them, taking with her one of the policemen’s arm with the handcuff. She takes refuge at a prostitute’s home who has strange relationships with her crazy brother.
The Beast Stable is the third and last movie produced by Shunya [...]
Machine Girl (uk release)The movie, which has been screened in many festival, is not just a gore movie but it has a real scenario which gathers typical Japanese elements. There are yakuzas, sushis, tempuras, girls in school uniforms, ninjas throwing shurikens, a “Hattori Hanzo” clan, expert in handling the sword. The matter comes from the fact that the [...]
No Moriré Sola, from Adrian BoglianoLately, almost all the genres of the 70’s are updated through remakes or takes over of updated ideas. However, there is a genre that remains untouched: the “rape and revenge”. Maybe, it’s because of the “rape” side. If today, torture is not a taboo anymore, sexuality is another issue. We know that in a drama, [...]
Sukiyaki Western DjangoAttracted by a mysterious treasure, the Heike (the reds) come to tyrannize a town to get hold of the gold. Hearing about that, the Genjis (the whites) come to intervene and claim for their share. A war breaks out, in its middle there is a mysterious soldier of fortune who has to choose his side.
Seeing [...]
MartyrsWhether it is a punch in the face for some or like pissing in the wind for others, I was waiting eagerly for the official release of the movie to choose my side and it is definitely the first.
Martyrs is an extreme movie in every sense of the word: not only by its violence (obviously [...]
I will walk like a crazy horse
Is it a curious coincidence seeing the American G. Shannon playing Aden, who runs away from his rich background to live in the desert? An enquiry is organised in parallel to shed light on the recent circumstances of his mother’s death. The seemingly hostile spread of sand will be the setting of an [...]
Bloody Moon, from Jess FrancoJess Franco has never hidden his contempt towards slasher movies, considering all the Friday 13th and consorts like stupid products worth no interest. What is he doing on such a project like Bloody Moon which seems to be a true psycho killer?
A mysterious murderer kills student girls. Miguel is obviously suspected: he is a lewd [...]
ChocolateThai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]
During the 30’s in the Mandchourie region, Tae-Goo (”the weird”) steals the mysterious map of a Japanese man which would probably lead to a treasure. Despite the fact that he manages to take the map easily with his gun, the train in which he is travelling is stopped by rascals. Chang Yi, “the bad”, a [...]
- Female Prisoner Scorpion : beast stable
Scorpion is pursued in the subway by the police. At the last minute, she manages to escape them, taking with her one of the policemen’s arm with the handcuff. She takes refuge at a prostitute’s home who has strange relationships with her crazy brother.
The Beast Stable is the third and last movie produced by Shunya [...]
Machine Girl (uk release)The movie, which has been screened in many festival, is not just a gore movie but it has a real scenario which gathers typical Japanese elements. There are yakuzas, sushis, tempuras, girls in school uniforms, ninjas throwing shurikens, a “Hattori Hanzo” clan, expert in handling the sword. The matter comes from the fact that the [...]
No Moriré Sola, from Adrian BoglianoLately, almost all the genres of the 70’s are updated through remakes or takes over of updated ideas. However, there is a genre that remains untouched: the “rape and revenge”. Maybe, it’s because of the “rape” side. If today, torture is not a taboo anymore, sexuality is another issue. We know that in a drama, [...]
Sukiyaki Western DjangoAttracted by a mysterious treasure, the Heike (the reds) come to tyrannize a town to get hold of the gold. Hearing about that, the Genjis (the whites) come to intervene and claim for their share. A war breaks out, in its middle there is a mysterious soldier of fortune who has to choose his side.
Seeing [...]
MartyrsWhether it is a punch in the face for some or like pissing in the wind for others, I was waiting eagerly for the official release of the movie to choose my side and it is definitely the first.
Martyrs is an extreme movie in every sense of the word: not only by its violence (obviously [...]
I will walk like a crazy horse
Is it a curious coincidence seeing the American G. Shannon playing Aden, who runs away from his rich background to live in the desert? An enquiry is organised in parallel to shed light on the recent circumstances of his mother’s death. The seemingly hostile spread of sand will be the setting of an [...]
Bloody Moon, from Jess FrancoJess Franco has never hidden his contempt towards slasher movies, considering all the Friday 13th and consorts like stupid products worth no interest. What is he doing on such a project like Bloody Moon which seems to be a true psycho killer?
A mysterious murderer kills student girls. Miguel is obviously suspected: he is a lewd [...]
ChocolateThai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]
The movie, which has been screened in many festival, is not just a gore movie but it has a real scenario which gathers typical Japanese elements. There are yakuzas, sushis, tempuras, girls in school uniforms, ninjas throwing shurikens, a “Hattori Hanzo” clan, expert in handling the sword. The matter comes from the fact that the [...]
- No Moriré Sola, from Adrian Bogliano
Lately, almost all the genres of the 70’s are updated through remakes or takes over of updated ideas. However, there is a genre that remains untouched: the “rape and revenge”. Maybe, it’s because of the “rape” side. If today, torture is not a taboo anymore, sexuality is another issue. We know that in a drama, [...]
Sukiyaki Western DjangoAttracted by a mysterious treasure, the Heike (the reds) come to tyrannize a town to get hold of the gold. Hearing about that, the Genjis (the whites) come to intervene and claim for their share. A war breaks out, in its middle there is a mysterious soldier of fortune who has to choose his side.
Seeing [...]
MartyrsWhether it is a punch in the face for some or like pissing in the wind for others, I was waiting eagerly for the official release of the movie to choose my side and it is definitely the first.
Martyrs is an extreme movie in every sense of the word: not only by its violence (obviously [...]
I will walk like a crazy horse
Is it a curious coincidence seeing the American G. Shannon playing Aden, who runs away from his rich background to live in the desert? An enquiry is organised in parallel to shed light on the recent circumstances of his mother’s death. The seemingly hostile spread of sand will be the setting of an [...]
Bloody Moon, from Jess FrancoJess Franco has never hidden his contempt towards slasher movies, considering all the Friday 13th and consorts like stupid products worth no interest. What is he doing on such a project like Bloody Moon which seems to be a true psycho killer?
A mysterious murderer kills student girls. Miguel is obviously suspected: he is a lewd [...]
ChocolateThai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]
Attracted by a mysterious treasure, the Heike (the reds) come to tyrannize a town to get hold of the gold. Hearing about that, the Genjis (the whites) come to intervene and claim for their share. A war breaks out, in its middle there is a mysterious soldier of fortune who has to choose his side.
Seeing [...]
- Martyrs
Whether it is a punch in the face for some or like pissing in the wind for others, I was waiting eagerly for the official release of the movie to choose my side and it is definitely the first.
Martyrs is an extreme movie in every sense of the word: not only by its violence (obviously [...]
I will walk like a crazy horse
Is it a curious coincidence seeing the American G. Shannon playing Aden, who runs away from his rich background to live in the desert? An enquiry is organised in parallel to shed light on the recent circumstances of his mother’s death. The seemingly hostile spread of sand will be the setting of an [...]
Bloody Moon, from Jess FrancoJess Franco has never hidden his contempt towards slasher movies, considering all the Friday 13th and consorts like stupid products worth no interest. What is he doing on such a project like Bloody Moon which seems to be a true psycho killer?
A mysterious murderer kills student girls. Miguel is obviously suspected: he is a lewd [...]
ChocolateThai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]
Is it a curious coincidence seeing the American G. Shannon playing Aden, who runs away from his rich background to live in the desert? An enquiry is organised in parallel to shed light on the recent circumstances of his mother’s death. The seemingly hostile spread of sand will be the setting of an [...]
- Bloody Moon, from Jess Franco
Jess Franco has never hidden his contempt towards slasher movies, considering all the Friday 13th and consorts like stupid products worth no interest. What is he doing on such a project like Bloody Moon which seems to be a true psycho killer?
A mysterious murderer kills student girls. Miguel is obviously suspected: he is a lewd [...]
ChocolateThai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]
Thai director Prachya Pinkaew re-energized with great verve the action movie genre. He was known thanks to the movie Ong Bak, which contained crazy fight scenes and made an international celebrity out of the now famous Tony Jaa and his complex figures of Muay Thaï. Without much effort, the director reuses the ingredients of the [...]