Brian Foley

Brian Foley

Favorite films

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • GoodFellas
  • Schindler's List
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • Opus

    ★★½

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    ★★★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

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  • The Damned

    The Damned

    ★★★

    A decent 19th century set, psychological, folk type horror story. Well made, good cinematography, but comes up short in the scares department. It was going for one of those movies that gets by on an eerie atmosphere and a mounting sense of dread, unfortunately it wasn’t able to conjure up much of either.

  • The Dungeonmaster

    The Dungeonmaster

    This movie is damn near incomprehensible, an extra half-star for WASP.

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  • Ambulance

    Ambulance

    ½

    I’ve never been a fan of Michael Bay and this movie was another shining example of why that is the case. A weak, preposterous script filled with corny dialogue and cardboard characters. Bad acting, nonstop booming score and editing that is enough to give someone with ADD a grand mal seizure. Bay is simply not capable of holding a shot for more than three seconds, even the action scenes are poorly constructed. I’ll never understand why this man is considered…

  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    ★★★★½

    Wow, I don’t know what to say other than Ari Aster has done it again. This is like Homer’s Odyssey on acid, a surreal trip into the mind of a man hobbled with anxiety and trauma instilled by a domineering, controlling mother. Describing the plot is kind of pointless, this is a film that one needs to experience firsthand to fully grasp. The film, about a middle aged man with several neuroses on a journey to his mother’s home, is…

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