Inga (Christina Lindberg) meets a gratuitously predatory lesbian (Wivian Öiangen).
One of Maid in Sweden‘s writers uses the pseudonym “Mike Hunt”. That should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of this film, but since I’m supposed to be offering reviews and commentary (it says so right in the title):
Naïve 16-year-old Inga (Christina Lindberg) goes to stay with her sister, Greta (Monica Ekman), and Greta’s loutish stoner boyfriend, Carsten (Krister Ekman), in Stockholm. Carsten mocks Inga’s innocent country ways, and she’s set up on a date with failed artist (and lout) Björn (Leif Naeslund) who basically rapes her into falling in love with him, continuing a trend from the last Lindberg movie I reviewed. Then Carsten does the same thing. And there’s your plot. [...]
Tags: 1970s, Christina Lindberg, Dan Wolman, Exploitation, George T. Norris, Krister Ekman, Leif Naeslund, Monica Ekman, Rape, Ronnie Friedland, Wivian Öiangen
As you can tell by the fake moustache, Ingrid (Christina Lindberg) stepped into the wrong cab.
Any time I sit down to watch a film for review, there’s a risk I’ll sit there ninety minutes later staring at an blank notebook page and nothing interesting to say about the film. Usually, I just move on to the next film, but I thought I’d make an exception for Journey to Japan, just to see if I can find anything to say about it that isn’t either boring or obvious. Let’s see. [...]
Tags: 1970s, Christina Lindberg, Exploitation, Ichirô Araki, Pink film, Sadao Nakajima, Takeo Kaneko
Solange (Camille Keaton) is black-and-white. What have they done?
A gym teacher and Italian professor at a girls’ high school, Enrico Rosseni (Fabio Testi), is out on a river with his student/lover, Elizabeth (Cristina Galbó), when the lover sees a girl being chased on the river bank. Rosseni is dismissive, but when he hears a news report about the body of a girl being found by the river the next morning, he realises he’s gotten himself involved in a murder, and finds himself under the watchful eye of Inspector Barth (Joachim Fuchsberger) of the Scotland Yard. Then more young girls are found brutally murdered and Inspector Barth’s and Rosseni’s investigations lead them to an overwhelming question: What did they do to Solange (Camille Keaton), and how exactly is it connected to the murders? [...]
Tags: 1970s, Bruno Di Geronimo, Camille Keaton, Claudia Butenuth, Cristina Galbó, Edgar Wallace, Ennio Morricone, Exploitation, Fabio Testi, Giallo, Günther Stoll, Joachim Fuchsberger, Joe D'Amato, Karin Baal, Massimo Dallamano, Peter M. Thouet
There's no tool in the crime-fighter's arsenal as important as a good iconic pose.
There is a truism in video game fandom and criticism that games based on movie and comic book licenses tend to be bad. Some a little bit bad and some mind-bogglingly bad (ET and Superman 64 being the classic examples). Trying to disprove this theory, Rocksteady teamed up with Batman: The Animated Series (among others) writer Paul Dini to create Batman: Arkham Asylum. According to Guinness, who certified Arkham Asylum “the most critically acclaimed super hero game ever”, they succeeded. [...]
Tags: 2000s, Arleen Sorkin, Comic Book, Crime, Kevin Conroy, Kimberly Brooks, Mark Hamill, Paul Dini, Rocksteady Studios
Lena (Christina Lindberg) being blackmailed by Helge (Heinz Hopf)
Christina Lindberg first made a name for herself in her native Sweden as a nude model, and parlayed that notoriety into an acting career that included a starring turn in the seminal Swedish exploitation film, Thriller – En grym film, and quite a bit of soft porn. [...]
Tags: 1970s, Birgitta Molin, Björn Adelly, Christina Lindberg, Exploitation, Gustav Wiklund, Heinz Hopf, Janne "Loffe" Carlsson, Tony Forsberg
Cross-o-gram!
Rape of the Vampire is French exploitation auteur Jean Rollin’s first feature-length film, for which he received financing after a producer saw Rollin’s short film of the same name. Rollin shot a second part, slapped it together with the original short and the result is what is reputedly the first French vampire film. Because of the strike and student protests in May 1968, French distributors froze new releases, which meant that Rape of the Vampire became the most successful French movie of that year. I’m sure Rollin would agree with Homer Simpson, that the two most beautiful words in the English language are “de” and “fault”. [...]
Tags: 1960s, Bernard Letrou, Catherine Deville, Exploitation, Jean Rollin, Marquis Polho, Solange Pradel, Ursule Pauly, Vampire
Mordin Solus: The very model of a scientist Salarian.
Note: this review contains spoilers. Proceed at your own risk. It also assumes you’re familiar with the Mass Effect universe.
Shortly after defeating rogue spectre Saren, his Reaper master Sovereign, and their Geth army, our hero, Commander Shepard, is killed in an attack by the mysterious Collectors. This being science fiction, even death won’t keep Shepard down, and she (or he) is brought back by the pseudo-terrorist human-first group Cerberus (whom you might remember from Mass Effect, where they were involved in all manner of disreputable business). With her old crew having moved on and with a brand-new Normandy, Shepard must now gather a new team (but with a couple of familiar faces) to join her on a suicide mission through the uncharted Omega 4 relay to stop the Collectors and their masters — the Reapers. [...]
Tags: 2000s, BioWare, Casey Hudson, Drew Karpyshyn, Mac Walters, RPG, Science Fiction
Safety first, that's my motto.
The first Skate, released in 2007, was a revelation — it turned the skateboarding game on its head, reinvigorating a genre that seemed doomed to consist of nothing more than increasingly tired Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater sequels. The analogue controls of Skate were fluid and intuitive and, combined with the open game-world, helped propel the game to the top of both sales charts and critics’ year-end lists.
Here, then, is its sequel. And, let’s get it out of the way early: it is a good game. But it’s also basically the same game. There are new features, of course, which range from the good — footplants — to the atrocious — walking. This latter surprised me, since you’d think Black Box would have learned from THPS‘s continually poor off-the-board controls that an engine designed for skating will never be good at walking. [...]
Tags: 2000s, EA Black Box, Electronic Arts, Scott Blackwood, Skateboarding, Sports
Arnie (Jerry Mathers) is the first to have trouble with Harry.
The trouble with Harry, not to put too fine a point on it, is that he’s dead. And not only is he dead, he was inconsiderate enough to leave his body lying around, causing no end of problems for the living. Captain Wiles (Edmund Gwenn) thinks he accidentally shot Harry while rabbit hunting, Miss Gravely (Mildred Natwick) thinks she killed him with a hiking boot, and Harry is found and hidden, buried and unburied, more times than anyone cares to remember. Captain Wiles, Miss Gravely, artist Sam Marlowe (John Forsythe), and Harry’s estranged wife, Jennifer Rogers (Shirley MacLaine), try to figure out who exactly killed Harry, what to do with his troublesome body, and how to keep Deputy Calvin Wiggs (Royal Dano) in the dark. Meanwhile, love blossoms between Sam and Jennifer and between Captain Wiles and Miss Gravely, and a millionaire art collector (Parker Fennelly) becomes interested in Sam’s work. [...]
Tags: 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Hermann, Comedy, Edmund Gwenn, Jack Trevor Story, Jerry Mathers, John Forsythe, John Michael Hayes, Mildred Dunnock, Mildred Natwick, Parker Fennelly, Philip Truex, Royal Dano, Shirley MacLaine
Rorschach works out some of his issues with women.
Released in two parts — March and July 2009, respectively — The End is Nigh is something of a prequel to the Watchmen film and comic book series, set in 1972, before the passing of the Keane Act that outlawed masked vigilantes.
In the first part, Rorschach (voiced by Jackie Earle Haley) and Daniel “Nite Owl” Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson) set out to quell a prison riot at Sing Sing. The riot turns out to be a diversion for the escape of crime lord The Underboss, and our caped crusaders end up fighting their way through criminals and cops alike trying to find him, and possibly stop the plot to kill two reporters at The Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The second part concerns the kidnapping of a girl named Violet Greene, and finds Nite Owl and Rorscach chasing Twilight Lady through strip clubs and brothels, fighting gangs, gimps, and dominatrices. (The voice acting of the gimps and doms is quite funny, especially the ball-gagged ones.) [...]
Tags: 2000s, Action, Deadline Games, Jackie Earle Haley, Len Wein, Patrick Wilson, Watchmen, Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade
