Don't know what was wrong with mer last time I watched this - it's great fun - good jokes, decent songs, the plot moves along faster than a magic carpet and Robin Williams brilliant does his thing. From the Dead Sea tupperware gag onwards, I was hooked.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Sleep, those little slices of death; how I loathe them." So, apparently, said Edgar Allen Poe in a line that would work as a tag line for this classic, in which a child murderer from the past invades the nightmares of local teenagers whose main life of defence is not to go to sleep.
Heather Langenkamp is Nancy, a young woman who is so stressed out by the nocturnal nastiness that she is living through that at one point she…
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A Useful Life 2010
If you want to know how not to market a cinema, watch 'A Useful Life.' It's the story of a 45 year old man who not only works in a cinema but has made it his entire life. He moves his head like he's a human camera trying to run a smooth tracking shot, and he repeatedly waits in the shadows for a woman he desires presumably because everyone looks better in film noir. Heck, he's even in black and…
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Southern Comfort 1981
Back in the early 80s the meaning of masculinity was in crisis, not least for me as I had entered adolescence. Somehow I saw this film long before I was old enough to legally buy a ticket and it was a thrilling but traumatic experience. In some ways it still is. A group of Louisiana National Guardsmen find themselves in mortal peril and only able to fire blanks. Subtlety plays little part in the symbolism on show here. At one…
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