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The Fog 1980
The Fog is a movie.
“Oh, you think?”
No, but it really is. Consider what I’m saying more carefully. John Carpenters 1980 film The Fog is a movie. Its a movie. You see, some films strive to be something more: Character based psychological dramas attempting aggressively to hide the seams of their construction and transcend medium. Blah, blah, blah. But The Fog is a movie. It’s a genre piece, born and bred. And like any good genre flic, be it…
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The Gang's All Here 1943
The Gang’s All Here is a 1943 Busby musical. And honestly, this review should probably just end here, because if you know anything about anything, then you know what that means. It’s chocked full of bizarrely subversive and brilliantly choreographed musical numbers with a narrative throughline that takes a definitive back seat to spectacle. If you go in with any other expectations, you will be sorely disappointed.
The story is simple. Andy Mason (James Ellison) is a sergeant about to…
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White Dog 1982
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
White Dog is a strange little ditty that attempts to grapple the monstrous beast that is racism in a new and exciting, albeit at times uncomfortable, way - with camp. The film approaches the contentious subject in the guise of what feels more like b-grade horror than anything else, achieving a masterful blend of pure spectacle and quiet reflection.
Before anything appears on screen we hear the screeching of car tires and the thud of an inciting incident, alerting us…
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