The very title of Scott Slone’s Astral Plane Drifter promises a strange merger of an oater like Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter (1973) and something altogether more psychonautic – perhaps a heady hybrid akin to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘spaghetti easterns’ El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973). The film’s opening line – “We all enclose…
Hansel & Gretel Get Baked (aka Hansel and Gretel: the 420 Witch) first published by Grolsch FilmWorks, 23 August 2013 Just as 2012 was the year when Snow White came in for some radical post-millennial reimaginings (Tarsem Singh‘s Mirror Mirror, Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman, Pablo Berger‘s Blancanieves), so 2013 is the year…
“I’m Dane Marbeck, and I can communicate with ghosts.” With this minor variant on “I see dead people”, the sweet-natured scooter-driving stoner (Thomas Sainsbury, also the co-writer of Dead) known to everyone as Marbles is openly allying himself to clairvoyant characters from films like M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999), Stephen Sommers’ Odd Thomas…