Aaron Powell

Aaron Powell

i make music because who can actually afford to make movies: foglake.bandcamp.com

Favorite films

  • American Movie
  • House of the Dead
  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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  • River's Edge

    ★★★

  • Thoroughbreds

    ★★★½

  • Alpha Dog

    ★★★★

  • The Order

    ★★

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  • River's Edge

    River's Edge

    ★★★

    like a lot of people i'm assuming, i spent the runtime flip-floping on whether crispin glover's performance was utterly ridiculous or oddly evocative. it was mostly interesting to see how many cues twin peaks took from this in a tonal sense

  • Alpha Dog

    Alpha Dog

    ★★★★

    very flawed but also definitely underrated, Cassavetes gets great performances out of pretty much everyone here. one of those stranger-than-fiction true stories

    third time watching and still really love this one.. unfortunately i think it's mostly due to the fact a lot of characters remind me of people i hung around with growing up lmao

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  • Sheryl

    Sheryl

    ★★

    best part was when crow says she called up bob dylan to ask if he’s ever had writers block and he was just like no lol

  • Gummo

    Gummo

    ★★★★★

    if there’s any movie that’s been made in my lifetime that i wish i could say i made,
    it’s this one. captures life growing up in a neglected and impoverished rural shithole somewhere in the wild west with zero prospects or potential opportunities with astonishing authenticity - maybe even more importantly with an affection and tenderness that could have only come from someone who has experienced it themselves

    i can understand why many consider this film a sort of freakshow-esque…