Fantasy

“BIFFF 2009: The Complete Overview”

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 by Vomitron

BIFFF 2009Director: this project was a loose cannon
Writers:
Vomitron and Coventry
Release year: 2009

What was I thinking…

Thinking it would be a a piece of cake giving every single film we watched at the 27th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival a treatment on our site. I sure underestimated the amount of work that would go into this crazy idea. So it took a bit more time and effort than I at first anticipated to get this overview completed…

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Air Doll

Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Vomitron

Air Doll   Air Doll posterCR 85x120 comedyDirector: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer:
Hirokazu Koreeda based on a manga by Yoshiie Gouda
Release year:
2009
Japanese title:
Kûki Ningyô

Cold hands, warm heart

Offscreen 2010Hirokazu Koreeda already gained critical acclaim with splendid features like After Life (1998) and Nobody Knows (2004). In his latest, Air Doll, Korean actress Du-Na Bae (Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance & The Host) portrays an inflatable sex doll that grows a heart – technically, it’s something closer to a soul and a conscious – leaves her natural bedroom habitat and sets off into the city to discover what life has to offer (and very much unaware of it all). She finds her way to a video store. By far not the worst place to start with your first job.

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Amer

Sunday, March 21st, 2010 by Vomitron

Poster art by Gilles VranckxDirector: Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet
Writer:
Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet
Release year:
2009

An unworldly piece of cinematographic art

Offscreen 2010We all go through cycles in life. And we also grow and evolve outside these cycles. We leave paths laid out for us, we seek adventure. We also revisit places we came from. In the real world, and in our minds. In a way, this is what Amer is about. It is to me. But as a film, it’s something else.

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An American Carol

Friday, August 7th, 2009 by Perfesser Deviant

An American Carol   AmericanCarolposter 85x120 comedyDirector: David Zucker
Writers: David Zucker, Myrna Sokoloff & Lewis Friedman based on a book by Charles Dickens (who, for some reason, is uncredited)
Release Year: 2008

A classic novel, raped.

Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin P. Farley) is trying to end celebration of the 4th of July when the ghost of John F. Kennedy (Chriss Anglin) steps out of his television like Samara and tells him he will be visited by three spirits. The first, and only one who’s more than a cameo, is General George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer), the second is George Washington (Jon Voight), and the third is Trace Adkins. Around this mangling of Dickens’ classic is wrought a story of terrorist Aziz (Robert Davi) hoping to use Malone to further his goals….

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Dream

Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Vomitron

Dream   dream alterna poster 85x120 dramaDirector: Kim Ki-Duk
Writer: Kim Ki-Duk
Release year: 2008
Korean title: Bi-Mong

Destructive romance on a higher level

BIFFF 2009When Jin enters his realm of dreams, an unknown woman acts out his experiences for real in a state of unawareness. Discomforting events increase dramatically when the faiths of these two lost souls become more and more entangled.

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