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Keane 2004
“My Name is William Keane, K-E-A-N-E.”
How do I rate a film as claustrophobic, uncomfortably close, raw, and tender as Keane? It was certainly not entertaining or enjoyable, but it was effective. I wanted to crawl out of my skin, take my skin to the woods, and light it on fire because it felt too full of electricity and ball bearings.
Keane ends just as it begins: with no fanfare, no score, and suffocating camera work. The film was unpleasant…
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Presumed Innocent 1990
“We speak now, tonight, and then these things are never spoken of again, agreed?”
Presumed Innocent was great, just go watch it if you’ve never seen. I don’t have much to say about the movie that hasn’t already been said, except what happened to these small story, well crafted “beach read” movies with solid direction and A list actors? I really miss those. And where the fuck did Bonnie Bedelia and Brian Dennehy go?
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Grand Theft Hamlet 2024
“If I could just request that you refrain from killing each other. And don't kill the actors either.“
I was expecting Grand Theft Hamlet to be a sort of early 2000s machinima, GTA Online production of Hamlet a la Red vs Blue, but instead it was a documentary? mockumentary? reality TV? version of *attempting* to make Hamlet in GTA Online—the marketing sold a far more interesting premise than what I saw. There’s some clearly scripted moments played as real drama…
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10 to Midnight 1983
"Well if anybody does something like this, his knife is gotta be his penis."
I know what you're thinking: we have Bronson, we have Cannon, we have Golan and Globus—but where I was expecting another movie where an old man with a revolver exacts vigilante revenge on some young punk who smokes pot and freely rapes women with equal moral ambivalence, 10 to Midnight delivered something entirely different. Death Wish 3 this was not, and 10 to Midnight is a reminder…
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