EyeSore Weekend Movie Picks!

EyeSore Cinema (801 Queen St. West, 2nd Floor) is reviewing movies for us now. Yeah that’s right, Daniel and the boys who tell you what to rent every week when you’re IN the store, and now gonna tell you want to rent BEFORE you go. How do you like them apples? This rainy, shitty, perfect-date-night-on-the-couch day outside marks the inaugural post by EyeSore. Couldn’t of planned it better ourselves. Read, learn, rent.

Kill List (United Kingdom, 2011) – Review By Trevor Henderson @ Eyesore Cinema

“Kill List” follows a family man, Jay (played by an intense Neil Maskell) and his long-time friend Gal as they reunite for a dinner party. Jay’s been out of work for quite some time due to a back problem (that may be completely psychosomatic), and Gal has a new job prospect to offer Jay. After some convincing, the two get to work, with Jay’s behaviour growing increasingly erratic and violent. I’m reluctant to say any more than that, as some of the greatest joy this film has to offer come through the twists in the plot, and just how off the map director Ben Wheatley decides to go. By the time the last act kicked in, I was as disoriented as the characters, feeling as if the already dark story I was watching had accidentally broken through some wall into a nightmare. It’s nothing short of masterful the way the director uses music, title-cards, and strategic editing of scenes to foreshadow what’s to come, making the audience feel dread from otherwise innocent early scenes of Jay at home with his wife and daughter. Without a doubt, the best new horror movie I’ve seen in years. Try to avoid plot-spoilers as much as you can and just see it.

THE RAID (Indonesia, 2011) – Review by Justin Decloux @ Eyesore Cinema

THE RAID is a lean mean action machine. You have a building, you have the police trapped inside and then there’s the hundred or so bad guys that want them dead. Director Gareth Evans ditches the classical martial arts approach of his last picture MERANTAU and trades it in for a more handheld, gritty, but still completely comprehensible, style of close combat action cinematography. No one is fighting for the sake of fighting in THE RAID – they just want to kill their enemy as quickly as possible. Iko Uwais is a dominating physical presence as the star, he delivers every bone crunching move with the perfect snarl of rage. The action itself is varied and brutal while still retaining the back and forth missing from the fights choreographed by Panna Rittikrai. It’s refreshing to see a film that has combat that’s carefully planned, edited, and directed with this much love and care. It was so popular that not only has it been picked up for international distribution, but there’s talks of a remake (WHY?) already on the calendar. SEE IT!