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World Wrestling Entertainment has seen its fair-share of foreign objects used in its 50 years of existence. There was a time when foreign objects were limited to objects found around ringside- folding chairs, the time keeper’s bell, ring steps. Foreign object brought to the ring by a manager- a manager’s cane, megaphone, or loaded purse- have always been in vogue, as have items smuggled into the ring in a wrestler’s tights- brass knuckles, a roll of quarters, a pencil- or boots. But with the popularity boom of the WWF’s Attitude Era in the late-90s to today, more and more outlandish weapons have been used to the entertainment (and sometimes embarrassment) of wrestling fans. While bodyslams through tables, Con-Chair-Tos, and leaps off of ladders still garner greater reactions, WWE Superstars seem bent on one-upping each other in terms of creativity and originality; some objects work,...
World Wrestling Entertainment has seen its fair-share of foreign objects used in its 50 years of existence. There was a time when foreign objects were limited to objects found around ringside- folding chairs, the time keeper’s bell, ring steps. Foreign object brought to the ring by a manager- a manager’s cane, megaphone, or loaded purse- have always been in vogue, as have items smuggled into the ring in a wrestler’s tights- brass knuckles, a roll of quarters, a pencil- or boots. But with the popularity boom of the WWF’s Attitude Era in the late-90s to today, more and more outlandish weapons have been used to the entertainment (and sometimes embarrassment) of wrestling fans. While bodyslams through tables, Con-Chair-Tos, and leaps off of ladders still garner greater reactions, WWE Superstars seem bent on one-upping each other in terms of creativity and originality; some objects work,...
- 5/2/2014
- by The 'House
- Obsessed with Film
Editors’ Note: The Coroner’s Report and Foreign Objects are distinct columns covering horror and foreign films respectively, but a mash-up of the two feels more appropriate on the rare occasion when we cover a foreign language horror film. You wouldn’t know it from Italy’s film output these days, but there was a time when the country was home to filmmakers keeping the horror genre alive and well for the rest of us. That time was a roughly three decade span from the 60s through the 80s when filmmakers like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava delivered movies that paired violence and sexuality with style and atmosphere. The result was a list of movies that continue to excite fans to this day including A Bay of Blood, Suspiria, The Beyond, Demons and more. Giorgio Ferroni and his 1972 film, La Notte dei Diavoli (aka The Night of the Devils) aren’t nearly as...
- 11/15/2012
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The goal of this column has always been to explore international cinema from all around the globe. To that end I’ve been an inconsistent tour guide as our destinations haven’t been as evenly spread about as they could have been. My own preferences lean towards traditional Asian, Western European and South American cinema which means Foreign Objects explores places like Africa, Eastern Europe or India very rarely. Russia is a huge country with a long-standing film community, but in our 131 installments we’ve only visited there twice… first for the abysmal Philosophy of a Knife and then for the mediocre Alien Girl. Which probably explains why it took so damn long for me to return… Elena is a fifty-something house wife to a well-off retiree named Vladimir. Together just two years, their relationship is more an extension of how they met than a true marriage. She was a nurse, he...
- 6/10/2012
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Last week’s installment of Foreign Objects took a look at the third film in Dario Argento’s so-called “animal trilogy,” Four Flies on Grey Velvet. Why start with the third film and not the first? No reason. But today we’re continuing with the theme and covering the second film, The Cat o’ Nine Tails. Don’t worry about continuity though as the three movies are in no way related. A burglary at a local genetics institute catches the eye ear of a blind retiree, and when people associated with the incident start dropping dead he teams up with a reporter to try to crack the case. The duo discovers an elaborate chain of events surrounding the lab’s recent discovery of a genetic marker that may indicate criminal tendencies and a drug that may cure it. Is someone killing to protect the discovery… or are they killing to hide the fact that they’re a...
- 3/2/2012
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Genre buddy and fellow root canal survivor Rob Hunter came to my aid this week when it was time for title selection. I was stupidly about to put in The Wild Hunt, which has something to do with LARPing and virgins or something, when the Foreign Objects author suggested I try something a little more sub-titled. Dream Home is the story about the American dream taking place in Hong Kong. Young Cheng Lai-sheung (Josie Ho) is a phone representative for a bank in Hong Kong and all she wants out of life is a nice flat with a view of the ocean for her ailing grandfather to live in. She’ll stop at nothing to get that home, from scraping together every penny and working two extra jobs. After raising enough capital to buy into the flat, the sellers decide to ask for more money and Cheng reacts completely reasonably. For...
- 1/18/2012
- by Robert Fure
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In honor of The Muppets and our ongoing Muppet coverage this week’s Foreign Objects is sticking with the puppet theme in our own special way. But the Muppets are an American sensation, so while they’ve traveled the world they’ve always done so in American movies. Non-Muppet puppet movies are few and far between, and most of them are still Us productions (Team America: World Police, Puppet Master, Let My Puppets Come) with only a handful of foreign titles like Legend of the Sacred Stone and Kooky. But I couldn’t find either of those. So we’ll be taking a look at Peter Jackson’s 1989 release from New Zealand, Meet the Feebles. It’s like The Muppets, but with more sex, drugs, murder and sticky white fluids… Today’s Peter Jackson is a far cry from the Peter Jackson of twenty years ago. Now he makes movies with immense budgets, casts...
- 11/25/2011
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We here at Fsr pride ourselves on speaking with authority. It doesn’t always happen (especially when I’m writing about Inception after drinking three boxes of wine), but it’s the goal we strive for. We’re bursting on the brink of boastfulness to provide a service most other film sites don’t offer – the ingenuity and odd creativity of our team of writers. Our readership is up 46% this year and that’s thanks in a major way to our fans, to the fourth box of wine, and to these features and editorials. If you missed them the first time, enjoy adding your two cents. If you’re catching them for the second time around, feel free to flame on for old time’s sake. (Click on any of the titles below to read the full articles.) 15. The Movie World Cup By: Cole Abaius and Rob Hunter (and readers) Where else can you see The Dark Knight vs...
- 12/28/2010
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week looking for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent… this week we’re spending some time with the South American working class. Racquel (Catalina Saavedra) works as a live-in maid for a well to do family, and her duties run the gamut of cooking, cleaning, and child care. She’s introduced hiding in the kitchen as the family tries in vain to cajole her into the dining room to celebrate her own 41st birthday. She’s been a maid to this same family for twenty three years, she’s suffering from migraines and fainting spells, she’s been butting heads with the oldest daughter, and her face is stuck in a permanent grimace. Racquel is one tired and frustrated Chilean. Sympathetic to Racquel’s condition and concerned with her increasing attitude, Pilar...
- 11/4/2010
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week looking for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent… this week we’ve got a dinner date with Shakespeare. By way of China. Ang Lee’s phenomenal Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon kicked off a decade of similarly beautiful wuxia epics with films like House Of Flying Daggers, Hero, The Promise, and Curse Of the Golden Flower. Lee’s film remains the best of the bunch by far, but one that comes close to equaling it in visual and aural beauty is The Banquet. It lacks the overwhelming emotion and heartbreaking romance of Lee’s Academy Award winning film, but it does have glorious imagery and cinematography, the always exquisite Zhang Ziyi, and a fine literary pedigree in a story based loosely on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Oh, it...
- 10/28/2010
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Note: Red Riding is a trilogy of films from the UK about a series of serial killings that terrorized Northern England from the late sixties on into the eighties. The movies are based on a quartet of books by David Peace and use the murders as a narrative thread that winds its way through the lives of people touched by the crimes including most notably the police and the press. Like Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder and David Fincher's Zodiac, Red Riding is just as (if not more) interested in the dark machinations of the men surrounding the case as it is the mystery itself. Of particular note is the trilogy's format... all...
- 2/11/2010
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Note: Red Riding is a trilogy of films from the UK about a series of serial killings that terrorized Northern England from the late sixties on into the eighties. The movies are based on a quartet of books by David Peace and use the murders as a narrative thread that winds its way through the lives of people touched by the crimes including most notably the police and the press. Like Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder and David Fincher's Zodiac, Red Riding is just as (if not more) interested in the dark machinations of the men surrounding the case as it is the mystery itself. Of particular note is the trilogy's format... all...
- 2/4/2010
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As part of our epic, two week long Decade in Review, master of the Foreign Objects Rob Hunter lays down his picks of the best foreign language films of the decade. I can reel off the best foreign films of the year without pause and feel fairly confident that I haven't missed anything notable, but best of the decade? Adding to the difficulty is the fact that of the thousands of films released each year in other countries very few of them actually ever reach our shores in any official capacity. Then there's the issue of release dates... do I use the year the film was first released or the year it finally reached the Us? There's way too much gray area here, so we're going to simplify things a bit. This is my list of the best foreign language films of the past ten years, and I highlight that ownership because I don't expect it to...
- 12/16/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… China! It's a full fifty-nine minutes into John Woo's new film, Red Cliff, before the first white dove appears. I don't mention that to be cheeky (well maybe a little cheeky), but instead I'm bringing it up because it shows a certain amount of restraint on the part of the dove-loving director. It's one of the very few instances where Woo's film seems to take it's sweet time, and while that sounds like a criticism it actually isn't for a couple reasons. One, the version of Red Cliff currently playing in limited Us release is actually a truncated two and a half hour cut of two complete films (that were themselves over two hours each). And two...
- 12/4/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! There are two quick issues we need to acknowledge and dispense with before we can proceed with this review of Dante Lam's recent action flick, The Beast Stalker. First, that is a terrible goddamn title. I know Lam made his name with a cool little movie called Beast Cops, but in addition to there being no relation between the two films it's just a poor title for an action movie without beasts in it. Yes yes, I know the term can be used metaphorically, but it implies a villain far more evil and bloodthirsty than the one we have here. Second, there's a whopper of a plot point you'll just have to accept if you're...
- 10/28/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Germany! This may come as a shock to some of you, but I don't know everything. The range of what I don't know is actually fairly impressive in it's own right and includes (but is not limited to) the solution to the Hodge conjecture, what another word for 'synonym' is, the justification behind pea soup, the location of the Holy Grail, and much, much more. My ignorance is most notable (and most shameful) though when it comes to historical events. I blame the Catholics and their close-minded school system, but many Americans are in the same boat when it comes to being unaware of even recent historical events outside of our borders. For...
- 10/22/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… South Korea! Asian horror films are known for a single iconic image... the long, black hair of a creepy, ghostly, Asian girl pissed off for some reason or other and out for revenge. It's no exaggeration to say that over 95% of the horror films from Japan, Korea, and Thailand play on some variation of that theme. (That may in fact be an exaggeration.) But once in a while a film gets released where the terrors and mysteries stem from someplace other than spectral vengeance. Take Hansel & Gretel for example... a dark, Korean re-imagining of a classic fairy tale (that still manages to include one shot of long, creepy, black hair pouring down from a trapdoor). Eun-soo has a...
- 9/16/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! Living in the United States it's easy to forget that we're not the only country to offer a better alternative to the lives people are born into. The Us/Mexican border is a revolving door where thousands of "tourists" come through on a daily basis. Some come for the fatty fast food, some for the even fattier basic cable, but most are here for the opportunity to take part in the American dream. Japan faced a similar situation in the 1990's (although they probably called it the Japanese dream) with a steady stream of illegals pouring in from throughout Asia (China, Vietnam, Taiwan, etc). It's not a topic that has seen much exposure on the silver...
- 9/9/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hungary! If Terry Gilliam woke up one day in Eastern Europe, horny, hungry, and obsessed with death... only to find the half-consumed bodies of David Cronenberg and Jean-Pierre Jeunet sprawled across his floor, morsels of both men's brains still stuck in his teeth... Taxidermia is the ninety-minute exploration of life, beauty, immortality, and bodily fluids he might rush to film before being arrested by the authorities. What does that mean exactly? I have no fucking clue. Taxidermia follows three generations of males in one very messed up Hungarian family. Vendel is a hare-lipped and sex-starved soldier in World War II who lives and works on his Lieutenant's farm. He's treated like crap by his superior, and...
- 9/3/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Norway! When I reviewed Cold Prey at the beginning of the year (here) I was surprised to find it was such an entertaining, suspenseful, and well made slasher film. The most impressive thing about it of course was the fact that the movie is Norwegian. Who knew? It was more than a little redundant of the genre, but still managed to stand on it's own as a pretty cool little horror film. It was also a huge hit across Europe meaning a sequel was guaranteed... but could it possibly be any good? Cold Prey 2 picks up almost immediately after the first film's conclusion. Jannicke (Ingrid Bolso Berdal), the sole survivor of the Nordic killer's snowbound onslaught, is...
- 8/26/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… South Korea! Those of you who read this review column on a regular basis (Hi mom!) may have noticed a slight gap in it's weekly schedule... basically it's been absent for the past few weeks. I'd like to say it's due simply to me being on a month-long vacation or maybe that it's Cole Abaius' fault somehow, but unfortunately the truth is much more disturbing. Internationally acclaimed director Park Chan-wook had me kidnapped, held captive for a month, and then released earlier this week with a five-day deadline to figure out why. Unbelievable I know, but true... no? Ok damnit. I'm a slacker. I did meet Park over the last month though, and...
- 8/19/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! In case you hadn't heard, I was forced to turn in my martial arts critic credentials after posting my review of Ong Bak 2 back in March. It seems I was too enthusiastic, hyperbolic, and just plain Billingtonesque with my love for the movie. In my defense, the review was written immediately following a mildly intoxicated midnight screening and I was trying to keep in line with the over-the-top nature of the film... Since then I've seen a version of the film trimmed of almost thirty fatty minutes making Ong Bak 2 a leaner, meaner, and even better martial arts movie than before. Even so, were I writing the review today I would rate it a...
- 7/16/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
For those who don't know, one of the reasons that Film School Rejects has made its home here in Austin is that we love the film scene here in the capital of Texas. We love the late night screenings of the weirdest films you've never heard of, the karaoke sing-a-longs, the classic comedy quote-a-longs and screenings in the park. None of which would be possible without the visionary work of Tim League and his team at the Alamo Drafthouse. And while South by Southwest is Austin's big festival, it's still all about music and interactive, not just film. When it comes to film, there is no greater Austin institution than Fantastic Fest -- the largest genre film festival in the United States. This year, we will be all over Fantastic Fest and with today's release of the first wave of films in its line-up, we couldn't be more excited. Our genre experts -- Coroner's Report author Robert Fure...
- 7/13/2009
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… South Korea! The teen sex comedy, much like the western, is pretty much considered an invention of Hollywood cinema. Other countries have made movies about teen sex to be sure, but few of them have featured the mix of rampant copulation, bodily fluids, and incredibly crass humor that America has made their own. Films like American Pie, Van Wilder, and Sex Drive are typical examples, and while they vary in quality they all succeed in hitting the main points required for the genre... laughs, naked chicks, and at least one incredibly gross scene involving sexual residue. These movies probably owe their origin to 1982's Porky's which basically created the template for all the rest to follow. The...
- 7/1/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Who doesn't enjoy watching cinematic mayhem perpetrated by and against bratty, misbehaving children? It may not be as highly ranked on your list of guilty pleasures as it is on mine (above movies based on SNL sketches and below the oeuvre of Kevin Costner), but you'll agree it's a sweetly cathartic release watching disrespectful little bastards get put down. No? Just me? I can't be the only one as the "killer kid" genre has a long and healthy existence with films like Children of the Corn, Devil Times Five, The Bad Seed, and the Spanish shocker, Who Can Kill a Child? to name just a few. There's something innately frightening about children not only capable of...
- 6/18/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week in search of films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! There's a brilliant scene in the upcoming Kathryn Bigelow film, The Hurt Locker, that features two snipers duelling from hundreds of yards apart. It's tense and suspenseful, but it's also intentionally slow and grueling. You'll hear more about the scene when the film opens wide this summer, but trust me that it will instantly take a top spot in the pantheon of sniper cinema. For reference, Mark Wahlberg's under-appreciated Shooter is in the top half of the spectrum while Tom Berenger's Sniper 3 is at the far other end. Somewhere in the middle sits the new film from director Dante Lam. The Sniper opens with two young cops who find themselves outnumbered in a...
- 6/10/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Australia! If and when we see the inevitable Hollywood remake of the recent Australian thriller The Square, I fully expect two immediate changes. The lead character's name will be changed from Ray Yale to Ray Murphy, and the title will changed to Murphy's Law. This has as much to do with Hollywood's pronounced lack of subtlety as it does the fact that poor Ray Yale gets fucked repeatedly by that age old axiom over the course of the film. Ray's (David Roberts) life seems pretty straightforward at first. He runs a small but busy construction company, he's married, and he has a sexy girlfriend named Carla (Claire van der Boom) on the side. This...
- 6/3/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… South Korea! The powers that be here at Fsr recently posted a list with the extremely misleading title of The 10 Best Revenge Movies of All Time. In actuality it's at best a list of ten movies... period. If you haven't yet had the pleasure of perusing this terribly misguided post please do so when you have the chance. (And I'm not knocking the list's author who's also written several very good reviews here at Fsr, just strongly disagreeing with the list itself.) It's simultaneously entertaining and sad, but it's hardly a list of ten revenge movies (let alone the ten best). Now the joy (and point) of lists like this is found in the discussions, disagreements...
- 5/28/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… France! Thirty minutes into last year's Palme d'Or winner, The Class, I was wondering aloud why the film was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, how the film had earned so much critical praise, and what I was going to have for lunch. An hour and a half later I was poo-pooing the Academy's flawed final decision (the Oscar went to Japan's Departures), agreeing with much of the film's unanimous acclaim, and gathering ingredients for French Toast. The Class is an engrossing slow-burn of a film that surprises with its power and bravery even as it consciously avoids providing answers to many of the questions it raises. Francois Marin (Francois Begaudeau) is a teacher at a Parisian...
- 5/14/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… France! By way of Thailand! When is a horror film not a horror film? And what exactly constitutes horror in the first place? I don't know exactly, but I do know this. Horror should unsettle the viewer. It should disturb you visually or emotionally. It should unnerve you and if possible make you question the darkness as well as the light around you. What it should not do is confuse, frustrate, and bore the viewer to the point they wish they had spent the last ninety minutes investigating their navel instead of watching the film. Vinyan is being labeled and marketed as a horror film, but while it hints at horrors both visceral and emotional it fails to...
- 5/6/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
I'll admit that I worked for a really long few seconds coming up with a headline, and there's just no good pun for this one. "Miramax Telling Everyone About 'Tell No One' Remake?" "We're Telling You About 'Tell No One' Being Remade?" "Don't Tell Mom The 'Tell No One' Remake Isn't Dead?" See? It's just impossible. I challenge anyone to come up with a decent one. And if you do, I will completely ignore it and go on with my life as if you hadn't. Quite the prize. Speaking of prizes, back when Rob Hunter raved about Tell No One in his Foreign Objects column, it was also a strong enough showing to make a list of French Films for People that Hate French Films. So we're no strangers to the French thriller where a doctor's wife is killed only to turn up several years later. Now, according to Variety, Miramax...
- 4/30/2009
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! I get flack sometimes for including British movies under a foreign film heading due to the fact that they're still in English. This would make sense if the column specified foreign language, but since it doesn't I'm going to continue including English language films produced in a country more than 3000 miles away. Besides, if I stopped covering British films you may have gone your entire life without seeing the image above. We'll get to what exactly it is in a minute... Lena (Olga Fedori) is a Polish immigrant who makes a meager living cleaning toilet stalls in London's Heathrow Airport. She hopes to eventually afford to move other members of her family in with her, but...
- 4/30/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Editor's Note: We understand that this week's Foreign Objects article includes some relatively racy photos. But since Rob Hunter spent hours going through this film frame by frame to find photos without nudity, we are going to allow it. As well, don't act like you're not enjoying it. Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! One of the advantages of writing a foreign films column is that my only real restriction is geography. As long as a movie was produced outside of the Us it's available for review here. So while last week found us wading through a serious and artful drama about 1980's Ireland, political prisoners, and the indomitable power of the human spirit, this week we're watching an Asian softcore sex...
- 4/22/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Hunger is a grotesquely beautiful film that captures both a finite time in history and the enduring will of the human spirit. It features mesmerizing performances, powerful visuals, and a sensory experience unlike any other film this year. What it does not do is present a neutral and unbiased viewpoint. A thunderous and steady clamor opens Hunger as a room full of people protest by banging on tables. It's 1981 in Northern Ireland, and the "war" between the British government and the Irish Republican Army is in full swing. Over 2000 people have died as a result of military actions, bombings, and assassination. The Maze prison is home to many captured Ira members who have recently had their...
- 4/15/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Prison movies come in three flavors. Some focus on the the ...
- 2/19/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Japan! Japanese cinema has given the world many things. From the iconic image of ...
- 2/12/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Spain! Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is driving through the mountainous and rural beauty of northern ...
- 2/4/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Israel! Waltz With Bashir opens on an animated, rain-soaked street to the sounds of ...
- 1/28/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Three stupid British girls vacationing in Spain hook up with four pricks ...
- 1/21/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Norway! Five friends go snowboarding in the Norwegian mountains far from the usual tourist ...
- 1/14/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Have you experienced the joy of "Californication" yet? It's the funny, sexy, ...
- 1/7/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… France! This week's entry may not look look like a French film, but ...
- 12/31/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Spain! Hector sits in his backyard while his wife, Clara, works in their garden. ...
- 12/24/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Japan! Imagine Steven Spielberg's Munich, only replace the Jews with women in their thirties ...
- 12/17/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… France! France by way of Belgium anyway... It's the end of the year, ...
- 12/11/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! This week is a brief departure for Foreign Objects in that ...
- 12/4/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… France! French films have seen a resurgence in Us popularity due mainly to ...
- 11/27/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Canada! I wanted to give our chilly neighbors to the north another ...
- 11/19/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! As a word of warning, this review has an inferred, but unavoidable, ...
- 11/11/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! Foreign Objects has been covering foreign horror this month in ...
- 10/30/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Finland! Finland? I don't know squat about Finland, so let's take ...
- 10/22/2008
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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