Could've been the film of 2015, until screenwriter meddling fuck up the 1975 J.G. Ballard masterpiece.
Dr. Robert Laing (Hiddleston), a prominent London physician and medical Professor, lives in the city's titular building. All who dwell in said tenement are wealthy, but to varying degrees - higher income = life on a higher floor and its perks. This movie works so well in its first 2/3rds or so in illustrating the residents' decline into barbarism by isolation. However, once the…
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We see Mark Borchardt's bookcase. In his rural Wisconsin home, it looks almost out of place among the various alcohol bottles and Green Bay Packers paraphernalia. Critical editions on Scorsese, memoirs of horror movie masters, general guidebooks. Mark is someone who lives and breathes an art form. He openly describes the escape that such works as "Night of the Living Dead" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" afforded him as a youth in the boring, cold wasteland he was born into.
Now,…
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I've only recently (today) realized that all of my reviews have been of films that I've absolutely loved, all five-star films in my opinion. I apologize for this, and will now satiate the Internet's lust for trashing movies that fucking suck. "Leonard Part 6" FUCKING SUCKS. This is my thesis statement.
I will begin with a story. I first became aware of "LP6" in the early 90s. My local video store had a VHS tape of this Bill Cosby vehicle.…
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I think I can say without a guilty conscience that this the THE most underrated film of the 1980s. Yes, the decade that the current generation loves to dissect and fawn over. (You know what? Who the fuck am I kidding, I'm in that group.) To quote the Juggernaut: "I'm ready to fuck! I've been ready to fuck!" William Friedkin ("The Excorcist", "The French Connection", "Sorcerer") delivers a true "cop movie" gem. Only this time, the law is the U.S.…
