It's too late for my up-before-the-crack-of-dawn workdays, but if you're up at 11:55 p.m. tonight and in the vicinity of the Royal, check out Machine Girl.

From Now magazine:

The Machine Girl offers lunatic excess from beginning to end. Never mind that our heroine has a machine gun on the stump of her arm – this isn’t some cheap Planet Terror knockoff. It’s a revenge tragedy in the spirit of Lone Wolf And Cub, in the style of Evil Dead II, about a Japanese schoolgirl hellbent on revenge on the yakuza scum who killed her brother.

Not every shot and effect works, but director Noboru Iguchi’s creativity with deep-fried heads, a flying guillotine and much more easily outweighs his small blunders.

At CTV.ca, we had a poll today on which early summer movie a person might be most interested in seeing.

Of the 2,952 people who voted as of the time I wrote this, myself and 30 other iconoclasts went for Speed Racer.

Indiana Jones is likely to do big numbers, if this completely unscientific poll is indeed representative of the movie-going public