Slipstream (2007)
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“Slipstream” (née “Slipstream Dream”) is the 2007 writing/directing/score-composing vanity project of Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. When thinking back on it, I recaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! AAAAHHH! OHGODNO! GETITAWAYFROMMYEYES!! AAAHHH!!
Strangers in Paradise (1984)
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Special thanks to Marc for recommending this film.
Southland Tales
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“Southland Tales” is like watching a dump truck full of vomit exploding in slow motion. Read more »
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell
Film review by: Witney Seibold
There’s a lot here, so follow closely.
Double Dragon and Street Fighter
Film reviews by: Witney Seibold
When I went to see the Peter Hyams-directed, Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle “Timecop” back in 1994 with a friend of mine (he was almost 15, I 13), we were treated to several audience-appropriate previews. Two new films were coming soon to a theater near us, both of them based on popular video games. One was called “Double Dragon,” and featured a grim gang-ruled future, which ended up being saved by the fighting skills of two wisecracking teenagers. The other was “Street Fighter,” also a Van Damme vehicle, and featured a UN-like military enclave bringing down a South American tyrant. I leaned over to my friend and whispered that I wanted to see “Double Dragon.” He scoffed at me, pointing out that “Street Fighter” was clearly superior. Read more »
Blood Tea and Red String
Film review by: Witney Seibold
The Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak are known for their mastery at handcrafts. They are commissioned by the aristocratic White Mice to build for them a goddess. The Creatures assemble the goddess out of cloth and leaves, but find her to be so beautiful that they refuse payment and will not hand her over to the White Mice.
The Visitor
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“The Visitor” (1979) is one of those films that seems to have mutated during production.
Stunt Rock
Film review by: Witney Seibold
You like stunts? Sure, we all do. Especially stunts that center on setting a guy on fire and them throwing him off a cliff.
All This and World War II
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“All This and World War II” (1976) is a proto-musicvideo film which sets footage from WWII-era newsreels and films to a score of impressive Beatles covers.
Spacedisco One
Article by: Witney Seibold
Many people in L.A., especially those even tangentially connected to the vast film industry, have probably heard the title “Reflections of Evil” whispered in hushed tones. It was often brought up in the hallways of b-movie studios and many other straight-to-video production houses. I heard it bandied about much when I interned for Roger Corman back in the day. “Reflections of Evil” was none other than a short straight-to-video experimental horror/collage film of a homeless man going mad and vomiting on the streets of
Hollywood.
When Witney Seibold was about 10 years old, he got in trouble for spitting on a new car. Witney wants his teachers and classmates to know that he was not a mean-spirited or unhappy child, and only did this to make his fellow classmates laugh. His classmates were, you see all merely pretending to spit on the line of new cars they were walking by, and Witney thought he could do them one better by actually doing it.
When thinking back on it, he realizes that some poor schmo working at the new car lot would have had to clean his spit off of the car. He apologizes to his classmates (who probably were more shocked than amused), his teacher (who was certainly not at all amused), and especially the unseen car lot attendant, armed with the Windex and paper towels, who was probably cursing his job as he had to lean over and touch a stranger’s saliva. I’m very sorry.
