This must be Call of Duty Day here at Hyper Toast. In addition to talks about a possible movie being produced sometime in the future, there has also been buzz about another game being made, and we’re not talking about crappy consoles getting ports or a Modern Warfare 3. Gamers who have played Infinity Ward’s [...]
Many movie watchers may recognize Terry Gilliam’s dark, enigmatic, but unique films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. On December 25th 2009, Gilliam once again, presented another magical and obscure fantasy for his viewers with a wide range of cast (Heath Ledger, Jude [...]
The harder the life, the sweeter the song.
In most cases, country music is not my preference out of all music genres. However, Crazy Heart, based on a 1987 novel, has caught my interest for two main reasons. First, I tend to have an attraction toward films that portray individual stories; a person’s struggle, strength, and [...]
For fans of Korean cinema, and Asian films in general, it is a dark, unoriginal Hollywood day my comrades. Park Chan-Wook, Korea’s premier director and auteur, has made a successful career so far in making dark, dense, and visual films. His Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy, Lady Vengeance) is not to be [...]
Directed by Andrea Arnold, a British Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Fish Tank is a coming-of-age story of a young girl named Mia (Katie Jarvis). Everything changes for Mia when her “mum” brings home her new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender). Released in September 2009 in the UK, this film is to be released in [...]
Fans of anime, especially older anime, may know of Leiji Matsumoto. For those of you who just did a “Who?” double-take, I will elaborate. The most prominent of his work stateside can be seen in the full length movie Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, the collaboration between the musical robot geniuses [...]