Gregory Povey

Gregory Povey

Favorite films

  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  • The Jerk
  • Wild at Heart
  • Little Shop of Horrors

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  • The Doom Generation

    ★★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • White Palace

    ★★★

  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★★

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  • The Doom Generation

    The Doom Generation

    ★★★★½

    Incredible from smoke breath to Jesus dick. Bless Jordan and worship Amy Blue.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★½

    Stylish foreplay of the long-time married dressed up as an espionage thriller. Slick as hell, horny as fuck with a hot score and incredible murkiness in its lighting auras. 

    Soderbergh does this like no one else. Fassbender and Blanchett are off the charts.

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  • The Silence of the Lambs

    The Silence of the Lambs

    ★★★★★

    Every time I rewatch ...Lambs, I fear it may diminish in value. I’m always wrong, it is always better. Absolute gold standard. 

    Demme was a master.


    * Criterion edition

  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★½

    Osgood Perkins? More like IS BAD PERKINS

    Parts one and two: genuinely felt anxious in that way a truly good horror only can make you feel. Not through cheap jump scares or jittering grunge edits, just straight up mood, claustrophobic vibes, allusions, sets and costumes. 

    Part three threw all that away for a grab bag of premium references (Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Zodiac, even fuckin Psycho) and the cheapest tax-write-off 82 minute shit you can find on Shudder. 

    A huge waste of the early endeavour.