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The Voices (2015)

March 14, 2015 Respond

From the director of Persepolis comes a dark comedy about a likeable guy pursuing his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets – but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. The Voices is a 2014 Biography film directed by Marjane Satrapi and written by Michael R. Perry.…
À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma (José Mojica Marins, Brazil 1963)

March 8, 2015 Respond

I discovered the cursed oeuvre of José Mojica Marins (born 1936) in an Italian horror fanzine I got hold of in 1997 from Rome. They dedicated a lot of pages to an incredible Brazilian phenomenon: a costumed hero like none other – a bizarre magician-like figure with black cape&high hat sporting long, grotesquely curved nails.…
THE RELIC [Peter Hyams 1997]

March 2, 2015 Respond

The Relic is about what actually happens when ‘Indiana Jones’ returns back from the temples, the tombs, the jungles to civilization under the spell of “curious or menacing objects”. Peter Hyams is top on my list of directors just because he’s behind both The Relic and A Sound of Thunder (2005). In a sense both…

The Voices (2015)