How do you sum up BLUE VELVET???

Hard to say... but it's safe to say that you need to prepare to be shocked and then shocked and then shocked once again!!!

Dennis Hopper's FRANK is the epitome of FREDDIE KRUGER meets DENIRO... Just that wry, twisted, sardonically sadistic personality that could scare the bejesus out of you in a dark alley...
or in a church pew when he sits down next to you in the middle of the Sunday morning sermon!!! This guy is scary... and he will make your skin crawl as his antics keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last moment...

If you want to be kept awake... even when you are exhaustively fatigued... this is the movie you've been looking for...

Sit back... take something to help you relax... and prepare to be taken to the twisted dark underbelly of the sadistic...

This movie will shock you... and oh what fun getting electrocuted in this fashion is!!!

What can you say about "The Story Of Anvil", a docu-biographical-drama, that almost coerces you to send money to these two somewhat hapless Canadian rockers who have just never learned how to say it's over...

The movie starts off in almost a farsical style, and we get the feeling that possibly we are being treated to Spinal Tap Pt. Deux... but as it develops, there's just not the over the top satirical bent that Rob Reiner, (The Producer of Spinal Tap, and "Meat Head on All In the Family, not Robb Reiner the drummer from Anvil), brought to the hilarity that Spinal Tap was...

Why?

Because Spinal Tap was a Mock-Cu-Mentary, and here we are faced with a movie that appears to start in the same fashion, and as it progresses, sadly delivers a down-and-out sort of reality, which brings the viewers down, down, down, and further down into the depths of their despair, a despair that these two "rockstars" feel... an urgent despair that tugs at your heart-strings!

Dedicated to their craft.. and ultimately believing they have their place in the annals of Rock History... this flick follows a somewhat scattered trek, as they try to once again resurrect what Anvil was, and what they would like it to be once again... Sort of a hope-filled journey towards success... a success which just never arrives... and so... all I could feel when the credits were rolling by. was a sort of sadness. A sadness for these two guys who care, believe and trust in the power of rock and their ability to conjure up the magic that rock 'n' roll is... even as age slowly pits it's plan against theirs.. with time is running out...

If you are a fan of Rock... of Canadiana... or of Lars Ulrich, (the drummer of Metallica, because god knows he shows up here enough)... well then this is a moment in Canadian Rock Film History that you should most likely watch... with the same allure of a roadside car crash... You know the kind... When you pass an accident at roadside... and you just cannot look away... and yet once past... you realize you really saw nothing...

Well...maybe that's the same thing with this movie... maybe you will see "something"...and maybe you won't...

Only you will be able to know after warching!

For me...I just felt kind of empty and kind of sad...

Rock on ANVIL...RAWK ON!!! Here's hoping you the best!!!

B

The ins, the outs, who's on top, who's on bottom, who's right and who's wrong... all poignant stepping stones for any relationship, and yet never more evident than in the "FEAST OF LOVE"...a movie that certainly tugged at the heart-strings of this viewer.

If you have loved and won, loved and lost, loved and fought, loved and cried, and loved and joyed... you owe it to yourself to see what relationships; YOUR relationships actually look like, through the looking glass lens of the movie camera...

Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, and a cast of many, lead us through what it is to love... and to co-exist with others in the topsy-turvy world of relationships...

This is a gritty movie... and a hard movie to watch! Why?
Because it's so darn REAL!!! I felt like the various characters, at various times. I felt FOR the various characters at various times... and I hurt for some, and disliked others... Like I said ... REAL LIFE!

I will tell you... I was on the edge of my seat to the end... because it was as if I knew all the characters in this REAL MOVIE LIFE, and I wanted to know what happened... and hoped... that it would all work out for everyone... not unlike the feelings we have for family and friends experiencing the same complexities and dilemmas.

Did I like it???

Well let me think for a second... the very next morning, after wathcing the movie... I immediately ordered THREE copies, for three of my closest friends, with my hopes for their futures... so they could watch it, and be touched with the wisdom this movie elucidates us with... I hope it helps all of them in the future, so that they may not have to partake of this feast of love so deeply; such as the movie portrays it...

The movie itself... Highly recommended... highly enjoyed... and now... a permanent addition to my movie collection!!!

I can pay it no higher compliment!

Brian Cymbaluk