A fun ride that I didn’t expect. Gratuitous violence, scenery chewing, everything in the script explodes, lots of fun physical effects and car crashes, political satire as subtle as Pam Grier with a machine gun, everything you want in a B movie.
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My Best Fiend 1999
Herzog’s point of view of their relationship. It’s not meant to be a biography of Kinski, so I’m not sure what other reviews are talking about. Herzog definitely comes off as a bit self-serving and enacting damage control but the doc is fantastic.
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Willy's Wonderland 2021
I have no words. I have as many words as Nic Cage. This would have been a good X-Files episode, and I bet it was at some point in the 90s.
Nic Cage is in a completely different movie than everyone else, which is a good thing because the one he’s in is massively superior to the one the teenage slasher victims are in. It’s like someone took two scripts (a slasher film and a supernatural thriller) and stuck them…
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The Firm 1989
Quadrophenia by way of American Psycho. If you don’t know English football culture, you probably won’t get as much out of this one. The sport itself has almost no role in the film outside of an excuse for ritualized violence, but without the context and knowing a bit of the history of hooliganism the satire will go over the viewer’s head. I forgive the film for this though, being a British TV movie - contemporary viewers would have understood the…
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