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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The best advice I can give to people with an interest in The Girl with All the Gifts is avoid all trailers, avoid everything and go in as cold as possible. I really didn’t know much about this movie other than it … Continue reading
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Deepwater Horizon is a movie that blows shit up real good. It shouldn’t come as a surprise being that Berg’s Lone Survivor has some of the most punishing action I’ve seen in an American movie this decade. He continues that film’s penchant for physicality … Continue reading
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Tagged Deepwater Horizon, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, mark wahlberg, Peter Berg
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31 (2016)
31 is the kind of Rob Zombie movie I could do without. As a big fan of The Devil’s Rejects and his Halloween interpretations, I was disappointed to find him making a straight and narrow body count flick. 31 is all meat and bone with not … Continue reading
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Tagged 31, Malcolm McDowell, Rob Zombie, Sheri Moon Zombie
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Scream 3 (2000)
This was always my favourite of the Scream trilogy when I was a kid. Probably due to the fact that all the “buzz” elements are really brought into the foreground and dialled up to eleven. The self-referentiality is heightened to such a … Continue reading
Crisis in Six Scenes (2016)
Basically a very long version of one of those very average-to-mildly okay Woody Allen movies we get three or four of before a great one comes along. It looks nice. And I enjoyed Woody Allen and Elaine May as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Crisis In Six Scenes, Elaine May, Miley Cyrus, Woody Allen
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Anaconda (1997)
This was a staple of my VHS-dominated childhood and I haven’t revisited it in a long time. Anaconda is dopey as hell but there’s something very charming about it. The mix of early CGI with practical effects makes me happy. It exists … Continue reading
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Tagged Anaconda, Danny Trejo, David Hyde Pierce, Eric Stolz, ice cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Luis Llosa, Owen Wilson
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Swiss Army Man (2016)
Swiss Army Man is a weird fucking movie, but also gleefully child-like and optimistic in ways we don’t really see a whole lot these days. Which is another way of saying: it’s immature. And that might not be a bad thing. … Continue reading
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Tagged daniel radcliffe, Daniels, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Paul Dano, Swiss Army Man
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S. Darko (2009)
The idea of a Donnie Darko sequel feels like blasphemy. While S. Darko is completely beneath that film in almost every regard – ideas, execution, ambition, intelligence – by using it as a foundation, you end up with a film that is far more … Continue reading
Bully (2001)
Full of authentic environments and faces, Larry Clark’s Bully is suitably grimy and lived in. Clearly made by the same man who directed Kids, it retains that film’s edginess and aggressive young cast. Clark is obviously obsessed by this younger generation and fetishises … Continue reading
The Bunny Game (2010)
An absolutely sense-numbing, patience-testing attempt at “extreme” cinema. The Bunny Game begins with a prostitute (Rodleen Gestic) performing oral sex (unsimulated?) and follows her over one day of hustling tricks in alleys and motel rooms. She is repeatedly beaten and degraded and … Continue reading
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