John U. Millar

John U. Millar Pro

Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • Zardoz
  • Battle Royale
  • The Warriors

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  • The Sect

  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

    ★★★★

  • Resident Evil: Afterlife

    ★★★

  • Resident Evil

    ★★½

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  • Zardoz

    Zardoz

    ★★★★★

    Immortality as a false and futile goal, inevitably bringing stagnation, tedium, and a powerful desire to die. Male potency as a necessary ingredient in a thriving society, bringing great violence, but also sexualty, the will to procreate and the strength to forge progress. One of the finest adaptations of Frankenstein.

    Whatever it is, it begins with a mortal storming Heaven and shooting God in the back. Zardoz is a fractured masterpiece of too many heady ideas.

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    ★★★★½

    Jeffrey Jones relentlessly pursues a schoolchild, which was fun before it really, really wasn't.

    The heartwarming story of Jeanie learning to kill the cop in her head.

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★★

    I was sold on a black comedy with a batshit premise, and got all that plus a story about how your dad fucks you up. One of the gnarliest 15 certificates I've seen.

  • Battle Royale

    Battle Royale

    ★★★★★

    Interesting double feature with Punishment Park. Swapping mockumentary realism for stylised hyperviolence, and breadth of scope for focus on a single, perennial issue: institutional power fucking hates young people.

    Only one of them has an actual anime villain though.