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Recent reviews

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  Too Hot to Handle 1960

  ★★½ Watched 14 Nov 2024

  “The Pink Flamingo Cut” —

  The narrative and focus seem totally scattered, but that might just be because of all the extra restored bits added back in. A bit anticlimactic, too. 
  It’s funny because it seems like Mansfield’s best acting moments were cut from the American version along with all the burlesque stuff. 
  Christopher Lee was friggin’ awesome, naturally.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2024

  Existential, meta, extra queer, and painfully telling of the millennial experience. This movie is extremely my shit.

Popular reviews

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  The Car: Road to Revenge 2019

  ★★★★ Added

  This may not be the movie for everyone, but it was absolutely the movie for me. I've been a fan of director G.J. Echternkamp's brand of satirical sci-fi dystopia since his last film, DEATH RACE 2050. While this one is played a little more straight, it's still weird and wild and over-the-top.

  I feel like a lot of the initial negative reviews are because people aren't given the movie they expect from a decades-later-sequel to a forgettable horror flick. What…

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  The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space 1995

  ★★★ Rewatched 29 Apr 2020

  It turns out I'd watched this film as a kid and had forgotten about it, so I remembered certain scenes as they were happening. That's always a weird sensation...

  Anyways, this was a fun little mishmash of Army of Darkness and Galaxy Quest. Ron Perlman was great, as can be expected.

  The thing I appreciated most was the ginchy, gee-whiz, bright-eyed earnestness of this production. It's a throwback to Captain Video shows and Flash Gordon serials, but even when the old-timey protagonist is thrust into the more modern story, things don't turn snide or cynical or anything else I expected from a mid-90s TV pilot.

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