Grant Phillips

Grant Phillips

Favorite films

  • Anora
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Starlet

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  • Fascination

    ★★★★★

  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

    ★★★★

  • The Killing

    ★★★★★

  • Alien from L.A.

    ★★★★★

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  • Fascination

    Fascination

    ★★★★★

    Kind of a knock knock meets funny games with gender roles reversed and it’s an occult magic vampire movie about rich debutantes. Count me the fuck in. Part of this Rollin box set I’ve made thanks to all the indicator releases. He’s one of the all time greats now I’m all in after nude vampire let’s fuckin go. Class commentary mixed with an Iconic blend of surrealist sexual supernatural horror it doesn’t get better. This one is my favorite so…

  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

    ★★★★

    First out of the Cassavetes box set. Legendary movie where the actors are given space to perform and improvise while the tone gets established and held throughout. It’s a mob movie but with emotion and dead space and dancing where you can absorb the world while drowning in it. I like him I hate him it’s complicated. Very cool to see Timothy Carey pop up again after just watching the killing too. Def see the Sean baker inspiration and the safdie brothers but maybe it’s just all Independent film that owes him a debt. Stoked to watch everything else in the collection.

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  • V/H/S/Beyond

    V/H/S/Beyond

    ★★★★

    Kevin smith tusked so Justin long could bark

  • I Know Catherine, The Log Lady

    I Know Catherine, The Log Lady

    ★★½

    A rough doc about the greatest person. Wtf was this editing. We all just wanted the story of Catherine to build and then watch her final performance in full but instead these cuts take us away from connecting with her and feeling any feeling. I get the idea was to have her story told by the people who knew her but we never hear more than a few words from Catherine and they’re the best parts of the doc. She…