Author: VHS Tracking
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Just One Of The Guys (1985)
Another movie poster I remember seeing in video stores, Just One Of The Guys (1985) is an eighties teen movie with a high concept twist: Terri (Joyce Hyser) wants to be a journalist and is passed over for a summer internship at a newspaper by her teacher’s sexism, so she decides to go undercover as… Read.
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Youth Of The Beast (1963)
Always great when a film from an older decade feels contemporary in its energy. Youth Of The Beast (1963; Yajū no seishun) is very snappy and vibrant, a Yazuka gangster movie about a mysterious stranger Joe (Joe Shishido – who I only discovered now had cheek implants to help his career and thus his very… Read.
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Wheelman (2017)
If you couldn’t get enough of films about get away drivers, there’s a Netflix Original called Wheelman (2017) starring Frank Grillo. Even though it looks like Drive and feels like an 80s Michael Mann thing, it’s more like Locke in that you are stuck in a car, watching an actor negotiate over the phone while… Read.
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Beau Travail (1999)
Finally followed through on Kenta McGrath’s recommendation and watched Beau Travail (1999). I’d already seen the ending multiple times with its use of Corona’s ‘Rhythm Of The Night’ but I was still surprised by the elliptical way the film unfolded. Even though it is told through Galoup’s narration (Denis Lavant, amazing) of his time in… Read.
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Black Moon Rising (1986)
Black Moon Rising (1986) had a video cover that was always in my mind’s eye and even though it was scripted by one of my favourite directors, John Carpenter, took me a very long time to actually see what it was all about. Turns out that it’s a great Eighties super-car B-movie that has everything… Read.
