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Recent reviews

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  Quigley 2003

  ★½ Watched 15 Feb 2023

  Gary Busey famously had some low points in his career, but I don't know that any actor has ever hit a lower point than starring in a DTV religious family comedy about a man who gets reincarnated as a dog. After Busey's misanthropic billionaire Archie Channing is killed in a car accident, he meets an angel (Osgood Perkins) who helps him return to Earth in the body of a fluffy Pomeranian in order to make amends for his wordly misdeeds,…

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  Prototype 1992

  ★½ Watched 14 Feb 2023

  This one was an odd watch, because it has the premise, setting, and production values of a cheap cyberpunk B-movie, but the aesthetics and artistic aspirations of some kind of weird, pretentious erotic art film. The opening seems like a prelude to a low-budget pastiche of RoboCop, The Terminator, and Blade Runner, as our hero, disabled veteran Hawkins Coselow, gets a new cybernetic body that turns him into a super soldier and is set loose in the streets of post-apocalyptic…

Popular reviews

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  Things 1989

  ★ Watched 23 Oct 2023

  This movie is a complete mess, with a script that's all over the place, scene after scene that is amateurishly staged, lit, and shot, some very poor audio, questionable acting, and home video-quality cinematography. It's often confusing and frustrating, and it earns its reputation for being terrible. It does have some half-decent makeup and non-horrendous practical effects, however, and the people who made it were clearly having a lot of fun doing so. As bad as it is, there were…

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  Lisa Frankenstein 2024

  ★★ Watched 05 Feb 2024

  This movie starts out with an intriguing premise, but it has a serious problem, which is that it doesn't seem certain of what it wants to be. Is it a tragic gothic teen romantic fantasy a la Edward Scissorhands? Or is it a mean-spirited misanthropic black comedy set in a high school a la Heathers? At times it appears to be going for the former (it definitely owes an exceedingly heavy aesthetic debt to Tim Burton, whose influence is all…