Movies

Immortel (2004) Written and directed by French cartoonist Enki Bilal, a 3DCG animated film with main roles played by live actors. Like his comics it is elaborately fantastic and intensely detailed with a complex and indescribable story. Something about the god Horus coming out of a floating pyramid over future New York to impregnate a non-human woman with the spawn of the gods. Looked like it was going to be amazingly great, but turned out to be kind of tiresome and vague. 4/10

Motorama (1991) Unique magical realist fantasy hero's journey/road movie. In an alternate reality that resembles the American West, a ten year old boy in a red Mustang drives from one Chimera gas station to another trying to accumulate all the game cards that spell MOTORAMA, to win the grand prize. Along the way he loses an eye, is forcibly tattooed, his hair turns grey, and he encounters cameo appearances by the likes of Jan Murray,Mary Woronov, Michael J. Pollard, Garrett Morris, Meatloaf, Drew Barrymore and Dick Miller. Not the sort of thing you would expect to be the vehicle for metaphysical philosophy but I believe that a correct understanding of this movie could result in mystical enlightenment. 8/10