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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
I used to watch the Bruce Willis-Damon Wayans action flick, The Last Boy Scout (1991) repeatedly as a 15 year old, positioning it as a ‘gritty’ R 18+ rated alternative to Die Hard even though I was often rewatching a TV edit that whittled away all the F-words and excessive blood-letting. Over the successive decades,… Read.
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Buzzard (2014)
Heavy metal music blaring and a freak out over a busted Nintendo power glove, this is the first scene of dark indie comedy, Buzzard (2014), one of the several collaborations between Michigan based director Joel Potrykus and star Joshua Burge. I loved their last film together from 2018, the surreal Relaxer, and I was keen… Read.
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Curse Of The Demon (1957)
“It’s in the trees! It’s coming!” A familiar sample from the start of Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds Of Love’. Where it’s taken from is the British horror movie, Curse Of The Demon (1957) also known as Night Of The Demon, another entry in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2 that I’d never seen. I remember seeing the… Read.
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Alphabet City (1984)
Streetlights that beam like diffused moons. Tenement buildings cast in a purple haze. Wet streets where a Trans Am speeds through the night, blinding the camera with its headlights. All to the synth-funk sounds of Nile Rogers composing the score. These are some of the aesthetic delights of Alphabet City (1984), a neo-noir crime drama… Read.
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News From Home (1977)
After seeing The Meetings Of Anna for the first time, and really loving it, I wanted to explore more of the filmography of Belgian director Chantal Akerman. News From Home (1977) is a critically acclaimed avant-garde documentary that she directed that I decided to take the plunge on. It’s basically a series of long takes,… Read.
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