Foreign Objects


Foreign Objects: The Beast Stalker (Ching yan)

Foreign Objects: The Beast Stalker (Ching yan)

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!

By Rob Hunter on October 28, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Foreign Objects: The Baader Meinhof Complex

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!

By Rob Hunter on October 22, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Hansel & Gretel

Foreign Objects: Hansel & Gretel

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!

By Rob Hunter on September 16, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Shinjuku Incident

Foreign Objects: Shinjuku Incident

Do you feel that nagging sensation deep in the back of your brain? That’s a desire you didn’t even know you had to watch Jackie Chan fornicate. It’s okay, we’ve all been there. Lucky for you Chan satisfies that urge here with a white hooker grinding away at him cowgirl style. (Although I’m pretty sure Chan had even less fun filming the scene than you’ll have watching it…) Oh, and the movie’s about illegal immigration and gang warfare in Tokyo.

By Rob Hunter on September 9, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Taxidermia

Foreign Objects: Taxidermia

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.

By Rob Hunter on September 3, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Cold Prey 2

Foreign Objects: Cold Prey 2

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 for a snowbound slasher sequel!

By Rob Hunter on August 26, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Thirst

Foreign Objects: Thirst

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!

By Rob Hunter on August 19, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Ip Man

Foreign Objects: Ip Man

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!

By Rob Hunter on July 16, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Sex Is Zero (South Korea)

Foreign Objects: Sex Is Zero (South Korea)

Much like they did with the Western last year (the epic and excellent The Good The Bad The Weird), South Korea has ventured into other traditionally American genres with great success. This includes copying the teen sex formula highlighting America’s love of fornicating teenagers, physical comedy, and baby batter.

By Rob Hunter on July 1, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Children (UK)

Foreign Objects: The Children (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?

By Rob Hunter on June 18, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Sniper (Sun cheung sau)

Foreign Objects: The Sniper (Sun cheung sau)

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!

By Rob Hunter on June 10, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Square

Foreign Objects: The Square

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!

By Rob Hunter on June 3, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Old Boy

Foreign Objects: Old Boy

This week’s Foreign Objects takes a look at one of the best revenge films ever made, one of the few films guaranteed to be on any list ranking revenge movies… heck, I can’t even imagine someone putting together a Best Revenge Film list without this one ranking fairly high. Yeah. That’d be crazy.

By Rob Hunter on May 28, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Class (Entre Les Murs)

Foreign Objects: The Class (Entre Les Murs)

I was known as one of The Tardy Boys in school due to my penchant for wandering the halls solving mysteries in lieu of getting to class on-time. I was late to class a lot. That’s relevant because this week’s movie is called The Class. And it’s also running a day late.

By Rob Hunter on May 14, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Vinyan

Foreign Objects: Vinyan

When someone dies a horrible death, their spirit becomes confused and angry. It becomes…Vinyan. Perhaps coincidentally, the same thing happens to viewers of this film…

By Rob Hunter on May 6, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Mum & Dad

Foreign Objects: Mum & Dad

The British are coming! The British are coming! Into a hacked-off chunk of human flesh… in this not-so delightful British romp about immigrant workers, insanity, airplanes, rape, cannibalism, murder, torture, and other family values.

By Rob Hunter on April 29, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks

Foreign Objects: The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks

Last week Foreign Objects covered a serious and sobering film about torture and the limits of the human spirit. This week we review a movie featuring penis push-ups. [Warning: Mildly NSFW]

By Rob Hunter on April 22, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Hunger

Foreign Objects: Hunger

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.

By Rob Hunter on April 15, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: The Good The Bad The Weird

Foreign Objects: The Good The Bad The Weird

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!

By Rob Hunter on April 8, 2009 | Comments

Foreign Objects: Martyrs

Foreign Objects: Martyrs

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 Rob Hunter on April 1, 2009 | Comments