The McDermott brothers (totally undeveloped entities we first heard about only a minute ago) step out of double doors in medium close-up -- "McDermott!" Legs yells off-camera. Reverse shot, Legs stands beside a mailbox on the corner, draws two pistols akimbo and shoots a few rounds. Reverse again (this time to a wide) the gunshots continue as the brothers crumple onto the sidewalk of a totally empty soundstage aping an NYC street, here Legs emerges from behind the camera to…
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Red Dawn 1984
There is a destabilization or oscillation at the core of Red Dawn, in its uncanny mixture of a troubling, immediate realism and its dry, almost farcical absurdity. There is also an irony in the film’s sketching of both its heroes (consider how, in the opening action, the pick-up truck appears to be loaded primarily with Coke and Sprite) and its villains (a Russian soldier mistranslates a sign designating a National Forest as instead a “National Battlefield”). But, even if we…
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The Getaway 1972
more mcqueen's movie than peckinpah's. also made me fall in love with him. stoicism barely repressing an intense violence. macgraw is fantastic too.
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Jennifer's Body 2009
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A rape-revenge movie disguised as a high-school horror comedy. But really, is disguise even an appropriate word?
How obvious is it that the stabbing of Jennifer in the woods is a metaphor for rape? Just like the lead character of I Spit On Your Grave (who, by the way, is also "coincidentally" named Jennifer), Jennifer is restrained by a group of men in the woods who then abuse her, thrusting foreign objects into her body. The primary difference…
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Jack and Jill 2011
Adam Sandler's biting satire of post-9/11, American, capitalist, consumerist culture. Sandler is clearly drawing from a vast and varied collection of sources to create this subversive narrative, the film contains hints of everyone from Jorge Luis Borges to Aristophanes. Sandler's slyly hilarious comedy is a brilliant celebration of one's own identity (particularly, gender and ethnicity) in the face of the increasingly repressive and xenophobic state of world politics, in fact, with each passing year, this film only grows in its…
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