by Alica McKenna Johnson | Aug 17, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
The Adventures of Prince Achmed was made in 1926, it is a silent movie created with handcut shadow pupptes- over 300,000 cuts were needed to create this movei. This just proves that I have no patience at all. I can’t imagine how much time and talent it took to make...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Aug 3, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
The Fog is a Bollywood horror movie, now I LOVE Bollywood and horror movie. I’m even fine with bad horror movies, if they are fun and campy enough to make them good, in their own unique Attack of the Killer Tomatoes way. Unfortunately The Fog doesn’t do this. There...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jun 29, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
Several years ago I was caring for five teenage girls who kept squealing about how Twilight is the best vampire movie ever made. Once I was done crying my hubby and I decided to review as many vampire movies as we possibly could and put them on the web because we...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jun 15, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
I raved about Sherlock season one twice in this blog so far, so it seems only fair to also rave about season two. More wonderful stories, odd twists, and amazing Sherlock feats. The downside: there are only three episodes, and it ends on a cliffhanger again. This is a...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jun 8, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
I love a good ghost story, and I love Daniel Radcliff. I was really excited when I saw the commercials for The Woman in Black. After a while I was worried that the best and scariest scenes were being shown in the commercials, however this was not true. This was a...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | May 25, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
Because I have been sick I am re-posting my first Foreign Film Friday Dhoom 2. This is a Bollywood movie- so there is singing and dancing, beautiful outfits, many costumes changes, and the sudden use of English slang in the middle of the Hindi. Dhoom 2 is full of...