09/06/2012: Total Recall [1990]

After seeing the new Total Recall trailer again in theatres, I figured it was about time I watched the original. The trailer for the remake looks very interesting, and so I figured I might want to have the original to compare it to when and if I catch that one in theatres. So after I got back from viewing The Cabin In The Woods again in theatre, I threw it on to finish up the night.

09/06/2012: From Russia With Love [1963]

I continued on with my James Bond.... jeez I really need to find a name for this. Anyway, this afternoon I watch the second James Bond movie, From Russia With Love, which I think, is quite possibly my favourite. While I will be able to better determine that when I finish them all, as it stands now, it is currently my favourite, and makes for one hell of an impressive sequel, in comparison with Bonds first outing.

07/06/2012: Alien: Resurrection [1997]

By the time I post this, I will already have watched and posted my review of Prometheus. However, I did take the last two months to rewatch all of the previous Alien movies, with this being my first time for Resurrection. From what I recall, as much as Alien and Aliens are heralded as such great movies, the two latter sequels were always despised for being the standardly terrible that many sequel are. Of the two, Resurrection is the one that tends to get the most flack as a sequel, but as movie I think it was damn well palatable. 

04/06/2012: Mother's Day [2010]

By now you must have realized I have the largest pile of unwatched movie lying around in my room. Once again, with a nudge from a fellow blogger, Kalyn over at Gore Galore, Mother’s Day was dug out of the box, and put on the screen. Even as I was throwing it on, I had my doubt about the remake, but within minutes I was gripped, and strapped into a ride that wasn’t going to let me go.

04/06/2012: Little Deaths [2011]

I glanced through a review of this months ago, on The Wolfman Cometh. As The Wolfman said, Little Deaths is by no means a movie one will watch and enjoy, you will be uncomfortable throughout, and possibly disgusted or disturbed, but that is what it intended. Sometime a movie isn’t made for your entertainment, it is made to make you want to forget everything you saw, and that by no means detracts from how good it is.

03/06/2012: Dr. No [1962]

Bond, James Bond. I have been watching James Bond movies ever since I was a kid. I’ve seen ever one of them at least 3 times. James Bond was the movie I could put on, anytime, whether it be my Saturday night, or Sunday morning movie, or just something to throw on in the background while working. Unfortunately it had been nearly a year since I had seen a Bond movie, as I had never actually acquired any complete set myself. Fortunately I finally have, and with Skyfall quickly approaching, I thought it was time to watch them all from the beginning again.

02/06/2012: Malibu Express [1985]

I have until this point only seen two Andy Sidaris movies in my life. However, watching those outrageous movies with my friends is some of my fondest movie memories. So, when I saw Girls, Guns and G-Strings on Amazon for $5, I did not hesitate to throw it in my cart and pick up all 12 of Andy Sidaris's B-movies. Now I will spend the summer sharing them with some new friends, and hopefully they will enjoy them as much as I did years ago.

31/06/2012: Man With the Screaming Brain [2005]

I am a big Bruce Campbell fan, but I had never gotten around to seeing him in The Man With the Screaming Brain. That day I discussed Bruce Campbell with a friend who is also a large fan of the man, and while we were equally disgusted by our other friends, who did not recognize the name, I asked her if she had seen TMWTSB. She had and recommended it for being a fun B-movie, although nothing spectacular, nor Bruce Campbell’s best work. That recommendation summarizes it perfectly I think.

29/05/2012: Fanboys [2009]

Have you ever looked back and remembered the exciting build up to the release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace? For many it probably meant nothing, but for fanboys of the original trilogy, a new movie meant everything. So when one of their friends is dying from cancer, our group of fanboys decides to break into Skywalker Ranch, and watch the rough cut of Episode I early. 

02/06/2012: Franklyn [2008]

I picked up Franklyn after reading a list of Eva Green's other notable movies after I watch Dark Shadows. I actually had a bit of difficulty finding it, and only a couple weeks ago found it in my favourite used DVD store. I quickly picked it up, along with a couple of other movies I had been having trouble finding. Unlike, most of my pick-ups, Franklyn did not disappear into the pile of DVD I have yet to watch, and within a week and a half I had watched it. But was my intrigue satisfied?

08/06/2012: Prometheus [2012]

I can happily announce to you all that I was the very first person in line, for Prometheus. I showed up and hour early, and anxiously waited for the moment I could enter the theatre. What I will go on to tell you, is unfortunately, unlikely spoiler free, but if there is two pieces of information you shall take away before you go see it they are: One, Prometheus is as epic as it attempts to be, without losing its head in the clouds. Second, it is undoubtedly in the Alien universe, just not a direct prequel.

28/05/2012: Bad Lieutenant [1992]

Bad Lieutenant is the typical bad/corrupt cop story taken to a whole notha' level. Harvey Keitel gives us one of his greatest performances, and build us a character unlike many others. The Lieutenant is a gambler, a thief, a junkie, a killer, a cop. He is the character that disgusts us all and yet, he is so much more than just another bad apple.

22/05/2012: Kill List [2011]

I had been hearing good things about Kill List, and after watching it I tend to agree. But Kill List is a movie I am not even going to try to review spoiler free. So first go and watch this movie, and when you finish come back and we can discuss what the hell just happened and you without a doubt will.

Mr. Darko's Top Movies of 2011

This just got moved from a page to its own post, since at halfway through 2012, I figured to many people might be confused thinking it was 2012's. While I will begin to compile that list don't expect it until the new year.

So here is a list of my top movies from 2011 along with honourable mentions included. I did realize as I was writing this how few movies I watched from 2011, let alone how many were that great so I'll probably post a current list of my top movies later along with what I plan on watching soon. But for now on to 2011.

29/05/2012: Men In Black 3 [2012]

I hadn't intended to see MIB3 in theatres, but when 4 of my friends decided on a Tuesday night they were all going to pile into a car and drive through a maze of highways for a half hour to get to the nearest theatre I figured this might be my best chance to get to see one of the many great movies coming out this summer. I have no regrets.

26/05/2012: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [2011]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a movie that was hyped about for quite a long time and yet, in the end never came to a theatre near me. I was a little disappointed, and only now have I finally had the chance to see it. For those of you who don't enjoy slow-burn mystery thrillers, stay away, the rest of you, jump on in.