A film noir complete with the impending dooms of our reluctant anti-hero, our persuasive femme fatale, our seedy and unseemly list of gangsters and lowlifes and perhaps a ray of sunshine for a young girl caught in the crosshairs of danger, this film treads on that familiar ground of how crime doesn't pay and money doesn't always deliver happiness. Although perhaps some of the characters we come across deserve what they are being dealt our during their lives by meeting…
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Dominique 1979
Dominique is a film full of twists and surprises and grabs the viewer by the neck just like Dominique herself when she might have hung herself with a rope or did she? A puzzle piece of a film, the film slowly reveals the true nature of the motivations of the characters as the film progresses.
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The Blob 1958
The Blob is a film you can already arrive at preconceived expectations for what you are in store for so you won't really be surprised at what you are getting. Done on a low budget, The Blob uses shoestring special effects to get the job done. At the start of the film we watch two teenagers watching a falling star and go in pursuit of where it has landed. An old timer finds the site of the crater where the…
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Sid and Nancy 1986
Recently, I picked up the Criterion copy of Sid and Nancy, and for the most part, I'm really beginning to fall in love with this film. Not since I have seen Vertigo and definitely in the ranks of Silver Linings Playbook has a film like this touched my heart so deeply. The story focuses on the bass guitarist Sid Vicious of the punk band the Sex Pistols and how he slowly gets less involved with the band and more into…
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