THE MOVIE:

Fantasy edges its way into the modern world with director Aleksander Nordaas' Thale. He builds his film around a bit of Norwegian folklore and makes it stick by allowing the tale's gentle pacing to slowly lay out its mystery in a manner that completely takes a hold of one's imagination. That he does so with a tiny cast and limited resources makes it even more impressive.

When we first meet our protagonists Leo (Jon Sigve Skard) and Elvis (Erlend Nervold), they are knee-deep in quite the mess. I mean that quite literally since they are crime scene cleaners (No Shit Cleaning Service is as great a business name as I've ever heard) who are currently taking care of a little old lady's mostly liquefied remains. Well, Leo is taking care of her remains while Elvis pukes his guts out in a corner. It's a grisly application of less-is-more (who needs to see the remain...Read the entire review

THE FILM:

The core conflict in Allegiance involves a member of the Army National Guard going AWOL on the eve of his unit's deployment to Iraq. Another lieutenant, recently transferred to a non-deploying unit thanks to his daddy's connections, weighs helping his friend or upholding his duty to the guard. Allegiance has an uphill climb with its unlikeable characters and dishonorable behavior, but makes efforts to portray the raw emotions surrounding a military deployment. Things are a little too black and white during much of the film, and guard leaders are painted as unthinking military drones instead of real people. The core conflict also rides on shaky ground, but Allegiance is convincing enough in the trenches to warrant a renta...Read the entire review

The blurb on the cover art screams "Twilight meets Tarantino!", and...yeah, that's pretty much on the money. I mean, you're lookin' at a starcrossed romance between a brooding, day-walking bloodsucker and the gorgeous brunette he just fell for. On the Tarantinoier side of things, The Thompsons is hyperviolent, has a cacklingly dark sense of humor, nicks Pulp Fiction's fiercely non-linear Read the entire review

]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58748 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:01:11 PST Recommended

Far more than fascist fantasy, The Thousand-Year Reich becomes a nightmarish reality when a legion of zombified Nazis are unleashed upon the world. Devoid of conscience, free will, or mercy, this army of the undead

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