I liked this movie when I watched it in 2001 after really liking Lovely & Amazing. A relatable realistic film about female friendship. It is Okay.
The weird thing is that every couple of years my brain suddenly recalls a minor episode in which Catherine Keener goes on a why-not date with a neighborhood dude she and her best friend have dubbed "the ugly guy." He takes her to a horror convention, they sleep together, and she realizes that despite going…
The first time I watched Viy, I'd just seen a clip from the banger last act, so I spent most of the movie twiddling my thumbs waiting for it to get to the awesome part. Then I watched it again with my husband, and from the start he had a blast with it, and made me realize that for the first two acts, this movie is actually very funny? Plenty of laughs wrung out from our lazy, cowardly hero who…
Subtitles say this film's title is literally "The Love Adventure of the Snake Queen" and that explains a lot about the vibe here. There's a dozen bikini-babe handmaidens bouncing around. Several minutes of a woman gyrating and fondling herself in a semi-sheer leotard. And two fairly involved lite-softcore scenes for star Suzzanna (and almost certainly a body double).
Somehow in 84 minutes, Hungry Snake Woman finds time for all that plus a vengeful nāga woman with a truly gigantic practical…
Not really worthwhile as a movie, but incredible as an artifact, with a clearly gay-coded relationship between older drifter Bix and naive runaway Danny. This is somebody's fantasy of hooking up with a hot drifter daddy, no question. Danny blunders into trouble repeatedly, Bix saves him. Danny flirts with girls, Bix intervenes. Then Danny and Bix sleep side by side in one of those legendary hotels where there's only one bed. But to be serious briefly: it's amazing (and inevitably…
Watched the original Albert Pyun cut, screened by Justin Decloux. This is an incredibly somber Vietnam-coded movie, which it shows by having Cap's mentor pretty much just say it. For his crucial mission Captain America is barely prepared and set up to fail, he pays the price and history forgets him. If you've ever wanted to see Captain America done with Born on the Fourth of July vibes, first off who are you, why do you want that? But this…
We used to regularly get DVDs collecting short films and music videos. One such DVD advertised Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut. I misread the order of the videos, so I watched a documentary in black and white about the Wall of Death motorcycle stunt thinking it was JGL's short film. "Wow, this is so austere and disciplined in its storytelling," I thought, "not at all what I would expect an actor to make. I'm so impressed."
Turned out that was a…
