Luke Pajowski

Luke Pajowski Pro

My blogs:

www.betweenthereels.tumblr.com

Favorite films

  • His Girl Friday
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
  • In the Loop
  • The Opening of Misty Beethoven

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Macumba Sexual

    ★★★★½

  • The Awful Dr. Orlof

    ★★★½

  • Wisconsin Death Trip

    ★★★★

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  • The Awful Dr. Orlof

    The Awful Dr. Orlof

    ★★★½

    Where do I start with Jess Franco has to be one of the more trickier questions in regards to any director's filmography. You could start with the solidified fan favorite Vampyros Lesbos. You can start with a Lina Romay classic Female Vampire. Maybe you're into noir and mystery so the Al Perrera period is for you. Logic would dictate that you start at the beginning. Orlof kicks off Franco's career and is a signpost he would constantly return to as far as themes and motifs. The cinematography here is sumptuous and it being it first film, his first big collaborator, Howard Vernon, makes his appearance.

  • Deranged

    Deranged

    ★★★★

    There's a specific style of muck the independent genre filmmakers of the 70s and early 80s uniquely captured and this is a prime example of it. The whole tone of this feels gross. Sure there are more graphic movies out there delighting in bloodshed. But those feel tame when given their higher production values. The setting, true crime narration, and mood all coalesce into something truly dera-- yeah you guessed it.

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    A 3- STAGE LOOK AT A MONOLITHIC WORK

    STAGE 1: BACKLASH

    Christopher Nolan is back with his ninth film, his greatest creation yet. A film that explores the ideas of time, gravity, relativity, and mankind's exploration into the unknown. It is not only Nolan's most ambitious effort, but in many ways, his most personal. With any film of ambition, critics, reviewers, and bloggers will normally be split into two camps. With degrees of other reviewers being either slightly toward the…

  • Suspiria

    Suspiria

    ★★★★★

    20 years from now, horror fans are going to hold this remake of the Argento classic in the same esteem as The Thing.