ROBOFORCE aka 'I LOVE MARIA' A special presentation from The Laser Blast Film Society screening on February 15, 7:30 p.m. at The Royal Cinema Dir. David Chung (with Tsui Hark ghost-directing) Cast: Tsui Hark, Tony Leung, Sally Yeh 96 min 1988 Get tickets!...
Weird on the Road with MOTORAMA – Review
Motorama is pure fever dream cinema and the kind of film that just doesn't get made anymore: A medium budget David Lynchian road adventure that is equally cock-eyed dark comedy and R rated metaphorical journey that happens to star a kid. It could only exist at a time...
Fist2Fist: 2 Weapon of Choice (2014) – Review
A project has a certain purity when a martial arts teacher stars/writes/produces/choreographs and directs it. Jino Kang does all of those things in his third film FIST 2 FIST: WEAPON OF CHOICE and its undeniably an extension of its creator - stone faced, reserved and...
The Greatest Film Book of All Time (About Action Films): “The Good, The Tough and The Deadly”
I love action movies. I find them enthralling, emotive and the purest form cinema can take. Yet, it's no secret that the genre is fairly derided in my most cinematic circles. Sure, people will talk up DIE HARD or PREDATOR, but what about the chill that runs down ones...
ICC #42 – The Horror of James Whale
The Important Cinema Club #42 - The Horror of James Whale Listen to more episodes of The Important Cinema Club>> Justin and Will are joined by special guest John Semley to discuss the career of Frankenstein director James Whale. Why is the sequel better than the...
Wing Chun (1994) – Donnie Yen Deep Cuts #1
Donnie Yen will be presenting his film Wuxia live in person at the Royal Cinema in Toronto this week. Buy you tickets now HERE before it's too late. In honor of the awesome event, I'm going to dig deep into his back catalog. It must suck to be Yuen Woo-Ping right...
The Top 10 Films of 2015 – Justin Decloux
I talked about my top ten on the last episode of THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB (which you can listen to here), but here's the list for posterity. 10. TANGERINE This is a great film. You should see it. 9. DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL No one makes coming of age tales like...
ICC #1 – Jerry Lewis is a Genius?
Is Jerry Lewis a Genius? In the first episode of the IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB (A.K.A CLUB DU CINEMA IMPORTANT) hosts Justin Decloux (Laser Blast Film Society) and Will Sloan (Jerry Lewis Expert) dive into the work of an American legend through the prism of two of his...