Bill McAlpine

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Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • The Tin Drum

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  • The Trip

    ★★★

  • The Bat People

    ★★½

  • The Vampire

    ★★½

  • Gay USA

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  • The Trip

    The Trip

    ★★★

    First time viewing of Roger Corman's director's cut.

  • Gay USA

    Gay USA

    Filmed at various Gay Pride Day parades across the USA, this is a piece of historical footage at best. This documentary offers absolutely no substance and most of the interviewees are too busy engaging in 'performance art' to offer any substancial or meaningful insights into their lives or anything else.

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  • Movie 43

    Movie 43

    ★★★★

    It's a glorious revival of the once popular (and apparently completely forgotten) sketch comedy films such as The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, Tunnelvision, Can I Do It 'Til I Need Glasses?, etc. Yes, it's silly and stupid, rude and crude with absolutely no pretensions of high art or sophistication and I loved every minute of it (and apparently so did the audience I saw this with). As to be expected, it's a mixed bag of sketches to be sure,…

  • Nope

    Nope

    ½

    A film with a non-existent script that is stitched together with nothing but 'moments' of the most clumsily sledgehammered shameless pieces of dumb audience manipulation, the likes of which I haven't seen since the days of early-Spielberg.

    Peele has obviously seen CLOSE ENCOUNTERS a few too many times, but even Spielberg would be embarrassed by this one!!

    Only plus for me was seeing Terry Notary (THE SQUARE) turning in another of his fantastic ape performances as Gordy, despite this having…