Don Marks

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Tall, cinema-obsessed, beer-swilling, comic-book-reading father of the world's cutest/snarkiest 18-year-old.

Favorite films

  • Videodrome
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • The Apartment
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  • All Night Long

    ★★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★★

  • Shadows

    ★★★

  • T-POSE: To Dance with One's Hands

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  • All the Colors of the Dark

    All the Colors of the Dark

    ★★★½

    Sure, joining in on a hippie sex/death cult ritual might get you over the inhibitions which are getting in the way of intimacy in your current relationship, but have you considered the obligations of subservience and murder that might ensue?

    A film suffused with waking nightmare energy, Jane's anxiety being so acute that we're often not sure if the threats to her person are imagined or real. The introduction of the cult and its druggy rituals combined with some trippy…

  • The Devil Bat

    The Devil Bat

    ★★½

    It's criminal that a film with such a wonderfully bonkers premise as "Bela Lugosi sics enlarged bats on his enemies by attracting them with a special shaving lotion" should be so dull, but truth be told, an engaging idea squandered by lacklustre follow-through is a woefully common occurrence in the B-movie game.

    Hooptober 11 Film #15
    category: 8 decades (9/8)

    2.4 / 5

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  • Armored

    Armored

    ★★½

    When I described this film to my wife, she responded 'Sounds like a bunch of actors who should know better'. Uh-huh.

  • Tenet

    Tenet

    ★★½

    A tantalizing puzzle-box of a movie with some ingenious ideas for action, but I struggled to find a way into either its complicated narrative or its cipher-like characters. The information payload of each exposition dump left my memory as soon as words were uttered, as if they were themselves susceptible to the film's inversion conceit. Possibly, I might have understood the film better before I watched it. Or maybe it just plays better in its original form, the flowchart.

    With…