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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971
I haven't seen WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY since I was 11 or 12 years old. It is a movie that is so evocative of childhood that it is difficult to separate them in my mind. Having recently rediscovered the brilliance of Gene Wilder's work with Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor, I thought the time was right to revisit this seminal film for the young and the young at heart.
First, let me say that a musical is only as…
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Constantine 2005
Only fairly recently have I discovered the brilliance of the DC Black Label / Vertigo comic book, HELLBLAZER, most famously written by Garth Ennis. It is very much in the same kind of style as Neil Gaiman's masterpiece, THE SANDMAN, with the characters actually crossing over into each other's pages at certain points. John Constantine is a man who deals with all manner of demons and evil spirits, protecting the world from a literal Hell on Earth.
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Wild at Heart 1990
WILD AT HEART has always been the outlier for me, in David Lynch's filmography. I always enjoyed it but it didn't feel like it quite had the same power as the rest of David's non-DUNE films. Watching it again last night for the first time in five years or so, it finally clicked. Here is a movie that, based on a book or not, has the pure essence of a David Lynch film, recalling BLUE VELVET and reflecting many of…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
It is difficult to express in a single review the artistic genius that is contained within TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN's 18 parts, but I will attempt to do it justice. TWIN PEAKS was famously cancelled in its second season in 1991, after the primary mystery sustaining the show was revealed prematurely, because of pressure from the network. David Lynch would go on to make a prequel film, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME - misunderstood in its time but now…
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