An odd film in a festival full of oddities, Sex and Death 101, starring Simon Baker, Winona Ryder, and Patton Oswalt, has perhaps the best chance of any film this week of appearing in your local cineplex. Baker plays a successful engaged man who receives a mysterious e-mail containing the names of every woman he has had sex with and, eerily, every woman he will have sex with in the future. To make matters worse, he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crimes against women. This strange film was directed by Daniel Waters, writer of the magnificent Heathers. Director Daniel Waters and star Patton Oswalt will be there live in person!
Considering my previous misgivings, attending the Ain’t It Cool News Secret Screening #3 might be pushing my luck. But what the hell, you only live once.
Part of the No Borders, No Limits: 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema Retrospective, Toshio Masuda’s 1967 Japanese thriller, Velvet Hustler aka: Kurenai no nagareboshi, recounts the story of a Tokyo hitman who likes his women like he likes his cars: fast and dangerous. He embroils himself within some gang activities and must flee Toyko. Film noir Japanese style. What’s not to like?
Tomorrow.. The Preview Finale!