Presents a narrative arc that'd collapse under any kind of gentle scrutiny, but does some interesting things along the way of it's conveniently implausible journey. Peter Boyle presents a convincingly grotesque racist extremist, poisoned by hate and resentment and itching for any excuse to engage in some "righteous" violence. The unlikely friendship he develops with businessman Dennis Patrick functions well to portray a commonality of interests, views and prejudices within the broad church of conservatism and a mutually seductive and…
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Ricochet 1991
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Extremely silly bullshit, but actually quite entertaining in terms of how frenetically absurd it all is.
13 year old me saw this as a new release rental on VHS, and while I didn't remember any details, I'm pretty sure I liked it and the enduring belief that it was "pretty good" was what prompted me to finally getting around to rewatching it. 46 year old me is decidedly unimpressed with my teenage self's sensibilities, but very happy to have rediscovered…
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Lips of Blood 1975
Features some artful shots but mostly consists of the whiny and unlikeable protagonist running about, or four scantily clad young women walking about. Pretty much all of the plot is revealed/contained in the last 10 minutes, so the preceding 80 feels more confused and tedious than it does mysterious, as I assume was the intent, and I found myself close to nodding off fairly frequently.
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Malignant 2021
James Wan has outdone himself here, not just by making a film that's even dumber than Dead Silence but somehow also having it be wildly entertaining.
This is an entirely ridiculous film. Had I watched it alone I might have found it irritating but instead I watched it screened in a bar and so got to mock it throughout with a nearby friend and surprise myself by predicting plot points which I'd actually suggested in jest.
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