Daniel Craig was good as William Lee and there are a couple of good standalone scenes. The film just didn’t work for me. Some reviews compared it to David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch, which it definitely isn’t comparable. It looked like a cheap made for TV film and just didn’t gel together in my opinion.
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M. Butterfly 1993
I just saw this for the first time tonight at the GFT, a screening included in a Chinese film festival, although, not a Chinese film. One of David Cronenberg’s most overlooked and little seen films by all accounts. It’s been sporadically available on home video over the years and is rarely mentioned when his films are discussed. M. Butterfly was made between Naked Lunch (1991) and Crash (1996), written by David Henry Hwang, adapted from his play, this is probably…
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Toys Are Not for Children 1972
‘Daddy issues’ the movie... The twist ending pre-dates the shock Oldboy (Park Chan-wook. 2003) ending by thirty years.
Stanley H. Brassloff‘s film is an obscure American exploitation curiosity from the early 1970s. It’s not horror or sexploitation per se, more of psychodrama and character study. Toys Are Not for Children is a hard film to categorise, but the performances are good and the central themes are interesting. I liked it. Thankfully Arrow Video have given the film the deluxe treatment,…Translated from by -
Megalopolis 2024
I wanted to like it because it will most likely be Frances Ford Coppola’s last film. The reviews are mostly right. It’s a complete mess of a film. It’s overlong, pompous and doesn’t make any sense. It’s an expensive, but cheap looking arty student film with terrible dialogue. There were a few standalone scenes that I liked and the performances were unintentionally funny. I also fell asleep twice, but it didn’t annoy me anywhere near as much as The Substance, which I hated.
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