Category: Crime
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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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Cast A Deadly Spell (1991)
I remember Cast A Deadly Spell (1991) being advertised in a comic book as a kid and getting it confused in my memories with CD-rom PC games with film noir/movie elements like Under A Killing Moon. Cast A Deadly Spell has been written about as a horror neo-noir, a post-war detective story in a parallel… Read.
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Sweet Virginia (2017)
I sometimes still think about Sweet Virginia (2017) which I watched one grey afternoon on Netflix several years ago. I think it’s a good neo-noir thriller, not a great one; it flirts close to the nihilistic edge of something like No Country For Old Men, but sort of flinches, which is both a good and… Read.
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Blood Money (1933)
Often the biggest anxiety for me is choosing something to watch out of all the possibilities. I am appreciating the decision to just focus on finishing a list of movies, the ones I haven’t seen from Danny Peary’s book, Cult Movies 2. Without this list, I never would have sought out Blood Money (1933), a… Read.
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Heat (1986)
Not to be confused with the cops-and-robbers epic starring DeNiro and Pacino, Heat (1986) is based on a novel written by William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride. I remember reading about it in his book, Adventures In The Screen Trade, and how the film adaptation went… Read.
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