Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts

Saturday, November 19, 2011

WATCH "REC 2" ONLINE FREE

 
JAUME BALAGUERO & PACO PLAZA, 2009
I am huge fan of the original horror film "REC," which of course inspired the American remake "Quarantine." So of course, once I heard that they were making the sequel I was up for it completely. The first film still scares me to this day, even though I've watched it several times. While I'm not sure I could have the same experience with REC 2, the movie is still a great horror film.
REC 2 starts almost immediately after the events that took place in the first film, and follows members of the S.W.A.T. team going to the apartment complex from the first film. Equipped with video cameras, they go in to find any remaining characters, and find the antidote to the virus that is spreading. We also follow a group of teenagers who end up finding their way in too. We see both vantage points, including the horror that both teams face.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

WATCH "[REC]" ONLINE FREE

JAUME BALAGUERO & PACO PLAZA, 2007

 
[Rec] is a fly-on-the-wall, cinema verite style mockumentary, shot with a shaky camera effect, from the first person's point of view; the soundtrack does not include any music.

Beginning with the pretense of shooting a TV piece on the way fire fighters live and work in the fire station, reporter Angela, and her cameraman Pablo show us the story of a vicious infectious disease, which transforms people into rabid animal fiends, and the way those infected are quarantined, together with the…










WATCH "Land and Freedom" ONLINE FREE

KEN LOACH, 1995

Land and Freedom is a British drama, directed by the English left-wing director Ken Loach, with a script written by playwright Jim Allen. His and Ken Loach’s Marxist, Trotskyist, and anti-Stalinist orientations are evidently present in the film, although it is arguably the theme of Stalinist repression of anti-franquist communist and anarchist militias in Spain during the Civil War, to be mainly portrayed. In the end, given the several disputes and scuffles between the various anti-Franco factions, we wonder, with the director: what is the point to all this?

The story develops through flashbacks, and it recounts of a David Carr, a British unemployed member of the Communist Party from...