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Movie Review: Soul Kitchen (2009) peppered with good food and a great old school soundtrack

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It's Film Festival Season Around the SF Bay: 'Julia's Disappearance' a film about aging, be bemused

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Brett's Employee Pick: Timecrimes

Excited about Hot Tub Time Machine? Rotten Tomatoes recommends another time-travel... more

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Top 10 Foreign Movie Recommendations

Great list of 10 Foreign movies you should see if you haven't yet.... more

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Nudies n BollybOObies; The shape of The Mysterious Orient

30 Bollywood actress and models have gone without clothes for magazines- Bollywood... more

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Various Images of Jean Rollin's Films

Jean Rollin is a French Filmmaker who is credited with making both the first French... more

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Terribly Happy: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Smart and cunning, “Terribly Happy” has an almost gleeful insidiousness.... more

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Are Hollywood remakes of foreign classics ever a good idea?

Let the Right One In was one of the greatest films of 2008. It's being remade by... more

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Russia and Georgia: A Cinematic War

More than a year after Russia and Georgia clashed in a short but brutal war, the two... more

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PopBunker.net Recommends 10 Foreign Films

***rest of the list at the link** Cavite (2006) Country: Philippines, USA... more

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'Mirageman' | Superhero Origin Flick from Chile

Here comes a new superhero movie from… Chile? Why not? This is not a typical superhero story. In fact ’super’ is downright inaccurate while ‘hero’ just barely applies – at first.

Marko Zaror, a stuntman and reputed martial artist, stars as Maco, a quiet and respectful bouncer working at a local strip club. When not working, Maco is a fitness and workout nut. The seemingly gratuitous scenes showing Maco working out, charting calories, and taking amino acids seem like filler at first, but what the film is doing is introducing the character and showing his solitary life that contains little meaning outside of fitness and his institutionalized brother.

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“Mirageman” is a difficult and ultimately rewarding movie. In it’s short 87 minute running time, “Mirageman” changes tone three different times. By far the most amusing scenes come early in Maco’s career as Mirageman. Mirageman has to fight what would be the first real life challenge of any superhero: Practicality. Mirageman has to overcome cumbersome costume difficulties which include time required to change into the costume and where to stash his non-hero clothes. And of course transportation. Although Maco’s “origin story” is similar to Bruce Wayne, Maco is no billionaire. His costume is pieced together from a sporting goods store and he owns no car. At first he takes the bus when battling villainy.

“Mirageman” also revels in the belly-bouncing glee of how a superhero must hold himself while walking around. “The Dark Knight” and “Spider-Man” never shows the viewer what it’s like when the Caped Crusader or the Web-Slinger has to, say, simply walk up stairs or down a hallway. How would they act while doing the mundane? Marco deals with that as Mirageman. The extended sequences showing the costumed Mirageman ‘creeping’ in bright sunlight with his arms held to ready like an arcade game are both funny and uncomfortably awkward.

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“Mirageman” also revels in the belly-bouncing glee of how a superhero must hold himself while walking around. “The Dark Knight” and “Spider-Man” never shows the viewer what it’s like when the Caped Crusader or the Web-Slinger has to, say, simply walk up stairs or down a hallway. How would they act while doing the mundane? Marco deals with that as Mirageman. The extended sequences showing the costumed Mirageman ‘creeping’ in bright sunlight with his arms held to ready like an arcade game are both funny and uncomfortably awkward.

Full detailed non-spoiler review at the link.
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