52Films

This week, Derek and Victor endure a horrible fuzzy death in...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 02:42:12 -0700

This week, Derek and Victor endure a horrible fuzzy death in Black Sheep (2006).

Next time: The Long Way Home (2015)

Download: http://www.frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_10.mp3

This time, we make up for lost weeks and review both Paul Blart...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:30:16 -0700

This time, we make up for lost weeks and review both Paul Blart movies. Derek regrets his decisions in life.

Next week: The sheep-based black-comedy, Black Sheep (2006).

Download: http://www.frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_08-09.mp3

This week on 52 Films, Victor willfully jumps into the fire with...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:58:01 -0800

This week on 52 Films, Victor willfully jumps into the fire with Philomena (2013) staring Steve Coogan and Dame Judi Dench.

Next week, a double feature of Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) .

Download: http://www.frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_07.mp3

This time on 52Films, it’s Victor’s turn to be angry with Easy A...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:29:38 -0800

This time on 52Films, it’s Victor’s turn to be angry with Easy A (2010) starring Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, and Penn Badgley.

Next time: Philomena (2013) starring Dame Judy Dench and Steven Coogan.

Download: http://www.frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_06.mp3

This time on 52Films, Derek is an unhappy man about Harlock:...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:14:37 -0800

This time on 52Films, Derek is an unhappy man about Harlock: Space Pirate (2013).

Next time: Easy A (2010)

Download: http://www.frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_05.mp3

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This time on 52Films, Derek and Victor review the...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:57:06 -0800

This time on 52Films, Derek and Victor review the ought-to-have-been-a-blockbuster hit, White House Down (2013) starring Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum.

Next time: Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)

Download: http://www.frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_04.mp3

This week on 52Films, Derek and Victor run on blades with Time...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:58:35 -0800

This week on 52Films, Derek and Victor run on blades with Time of Eve (2010).

Next time: White House Down (2013)

Download: http://frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_03.mp3

Not even lyin’, bruv. This week, Victor and Derek review Attack...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:43:34 -0800

Not even lyin’, bruv. This week, Victor and Derek review Attack the Block (2011).

Next week, we talk about Time of Eve (2010).

Download: http://frost.works/52F/mp3/52Films_02.mp3

This week, Derek and Victor review Expelled from Paradise! Next...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:19:07 -0800

This week, Derek and Victor review Expelled from Paradise!

Next week, we review Attack the Block!

Download: https://archive.org/download/52Films001/52films_01.mp3

Expelled from Paradise (2014) - Victor Frost

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:07:32 -0800

When watching Expelled from Paradise, you get this incredible sense of familiarity: like the feel of a heavy winter coat pulled out of storage for the season. The kind that always seems to feel just right no matter how many years you’ve owned it. But that familiarity, while great, can be an anchor for works trying to reach great heights. Another word for “familiar”, after all, is “predictable”.

Let’s start with the casting: Wendee Lee, Steven Blum, and Johnny Yong Bosch. Not exactly unknowns in the world of anime. In fact, combined, they’ve probably been in about 70% of the anime I watched from ages 13-23. This, obviously, isn’t a problem in and of itself; we don’t begrudge movies because they star Brad Pitt or Jennifer Lawrence, after all. But their voices are just SO recognizable, that hearing the voices with a similar character that they’ve played before pulls you out of the experience of the movie. You don’t see Dingo, the tracker-for-hire because all you hear is Spike Spiegel, bounty hunter. Also, I’m pretty sure Johnny Yong Bosch is only capable of one voice, making basically every character he plays sound like Vash the Stampede to my ears.

Now, it’s important to remember that these are problems with me, not the movie. In fact, the movie itself is good… but, again, all too familiar. If you’ve seen Dances with Wolves (1990), Avatar (2009), Pocahontas (1995), or The Last Samurai (2003), you know how the story goes: character from one culture learns to appreciate another culture that they thought was inferior to their own and, eventually, has to defend it from their own culture, usually in some kind of armed combat. Same deal with with Expelled from Paradise, but with a cyberpunk twist, taking the idealized version of the post-singularity dream of your brain into some massive virtual reality world and contrasting it with a nightmare post-singularity scenario of nano-machines turning the bulk of the planet into a barren dustbowl.

This movie takes some serious cues from Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Ghost in the Shell. Not doing it any favors in the familiarity front, but it certainly doesn’t hurt it either. Those are all A-Level anime and if you take the best elements from A-Level stuff and combine them, chances are good you’ll end up with something at least decent. This movie was more than decent. It was good.

All told, Expelled from Paradise is a solid film. Go watch it if you like sci-fi anime

So here we are...

Victor@frost.works (sonic) — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:01:10 -0800

You and me, reader: We’re going to do this. We’re going to watch 52 movies this year and it won’t be hard. One movie each week for a year. That’s only about 6700 minutes out of 527040. A pittance, but a pittance that still takes effort.

Why? Because I don’t watch enough movies and this is a great reason to. I love generating content and you love reading content. I also dragged my friend Derek along for the ride. The idea is that we’ll alternate on picking the movie to watch, but you can give us ideas too. And, if you have thoughts about the movie we watched and you wanna write a review, you can do that too. Links to do both are above in the menu.

This week’s movie is Expelled from Paradise and you can watch it on Netflix.
Check back Wednesday for my review.

Signed,

Victor Frost