Alex Gaskin

Alex Gaskin

Favorite films

  • Harakiri
  • Carnival of Souls
  • Psycho
  • Throw Down

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  • The Mad Doctor of Market Street

    ★★½

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

  • Noroi: The Curse

    ★★★★½

  • Spider Baby

    ★★★

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  • The Mad Doctor of Market Street

    The Mad Doctor of Market Street

    ★★½

    For the early horror sickos only, and not a particularly good time for them, either.

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

    It’s funny! It’s visually interesting 2D animation! And it’s a Looney Tunes project that wasn’t smothered in the crib! Getting to see this in theaters is like finding out your local zoo just set up a dodo habitat.

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  • Monkey Man

    Monkey Man

    ★★★★

    I’m a sucker for a film that seethes with proletariat anger, and for one that knows how to play with chaos and desperation. The formal obligation of a personal grudge is present, but it’s not hard to discern that we’re kicking ass and spilling blood on behalf of all the common people stepped on by the powerful few, not just the one we keep seeing in our obligatory flashbacks.

    (Yes I’m taking issue in text with the story beats, but…

  • Harakiri

    Harakiri

    ★★★★★

    In my 20s, the execution and themes awed me. At this point in my life they shame me a little, but it instills more or less the same drive to be better than I am both creatively and as a person. 

    First time seeing this in theaters and god it’s amazing to sense how your favorite movie is being experienced by a large crowd. Especially among the lot who titter and even laugh out loud at the early developments, only to realize they were being set up to be chastened by the story that unfolds.