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Foreign Objects: CJ7… aka If a Sweet ‘n Sour Shiitsu Humped Your VHS Copy of ‘Mac and Me’ Stephen Chow tugs at our heartstrings with poop jokes in his first family film. By Rob Hunter on September 4, 2008 | Comments (4) |
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Foreign Objects: Chocolate… aka The Ass-Kicking Autistic Girl Get ready for flying fruit, knives, and fat kids… there’s a ton of ass-kicking coming out of Thailand. By Rob Hunter on August 27, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Foreign Objects: The Girls Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers… aka Best Title Ever In honor of Michael Phelps, I wanted to pick a film that shared his enthusiasm for water sports. I knew my search was over when I came across The Girls Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers. By Rob Hunter on August 20, 2008 | Comments (2) |
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Eleven French Films for People Who Hate French Films A wise man once said, “French films are… too French.” For those who agree, here’s a list of eleven French films that will make you want to break out your DVD player’s poor, neglected subtitle option. By Rob Hunter on August 14, 2008 | Comments (13) |
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Foreign Objects: Sukiyaki Western Django Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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! By Rob Hunter on August 13, 2008 | Comments (1) |
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Foreign Objects: Son of Rambow Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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 United Kingdom! By Rob Hunter on August 6, 2008 | Comments (7) |
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Head to Head: Asian Western Trailer Shootout Westerns are a uniquely American type of film, are they not? So why, with that in mind, would two Asian filmmakers both go into the western shoot-em-up business at the exact same time? We explore the facts. By Rob Hunter on August 1, 2008 | Comments (5) |
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Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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 July 31, 2008 | Comments (3) |
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Foreign Objects: Dead Man’s Shoes Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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 United Kingdom! By Rob Hunter on July 24, 2008 | Comments (3) |
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Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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 July 16, 2008 | Comments (2) |
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Foreign Objects: Mother of Tears Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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… Italy! By Rob Hunter on July 9, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Foreign Objects: The Lives of Others Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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 July 2, 2008 | Comments (8) |
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Foreign Objects: Tokyo Gore Police Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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! By Rob Hunter on June 23, 2008 | Comments (2) |
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Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight 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 United Kingdom! By Rob Hunter on June 17, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Tokyo Gore Police Want to Give You a Cavity Search If The Machine Girl piqued your interest in the gloriously effed up world of Japanese cinema, I direct your attention towards the newest film to cross the Pacific, bend you over its knee, and use your body as a hand muff. By Rob Hunter on June 12, 2008 | Comments (2) |
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Exploring The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Last week we descended into the bowels of The Machine Girl and came out sticky, tingly, and feeling just a little bit dirty… so this week I’m going to class things up a bit by covering an award-winning film that doesn’t involve Japanese schoolgirls or geysers of blood. By Rob Hunter on June 11, 2008 | Comments (2) |
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‘The Machine Girl’ Will Blow You Away, In Japanese The 9th Annual Golden Trailer awards honored the best previews of the year this week, with one very obvious omission — the best trailer of the year: The Machine Girl. By Rob Hunter on June 1, 2008 | Comments (3) |
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The 2008 Cannes Film Festival Awards Have Been Announced… Should You Care? The 2008 Cannes Film Festival is over and the awards have been announced. Cue the crickets. Sorry, that was wrong, cue le crickets. By Rob Hunter on May 28, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Indiana Jones Through a Cantonese Lens… Jackie Chan’s Armour of God I & II In honor of Indiana Jones week here at FSR, today’s installment of Foreign Objects will take a look at the best Raiders of the Lost Ark homage/rip-off ever made. Luckily (and not coincidentally) it just so happens to be a foreign film. By Rob Hunter on May 25, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Welcome to Foreign Objects, a new weekly review column covering the world of film outside the USA. I know what you’re thinking, ‘They make movies outside of Hollywood?’ The answer is yes. By Rob Hunter on May 13, 2008 | Comments (1) |