Happy Hunting
A solid redneck chase movie. It was fine, but I just felt it needed to get there faster. There’s no reason this movie couldn’t be leaner, tighter. Not everything needs to be explained, repeated or in slow motion.
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Kuso
Kuso is a movie that poses one simple question – What. The. Fuck? It’s about the nightmares had in the aftershocks of a New York earthquake (I think?). At first I was like Phhft, this isn’t as bad as my dreams, then a long cockroach crawls out a guy’s goatse and the guy lying underneath…
The Transfiguration
Really enjoyed The Transfiguration, a movie about a small, bookish, African-American boy obsessed with vampires who’s living his dream. While folk try to buy drugs off him or grill him on snitching to the cops, no one suspects what he really is, no one comes close to linking him to the corpses with their throats…
It Stains The Sands Red
A zombie flick about a plucky stripper being chased across the desert by a lone zombie. It’s actually pretty good, although it has a clunky add-on ending and an unnecessary rape scene.
Goldstone
A sorta sequel to Mystery Road. Detective Jay Swann is back, he’s cleaning up another town, and this time he’s partnering up – with 300 fucking flies. Seriously, like every fucking fly in the Australian outback is in this movie, usually half an inch from the actors’ eyeball or lip – get that tae fuck!…
Angry Inuk
An engaging and challenging look at seal hunting by Inuit people. It sets out very clearly what seal hunting means to Inuit and the Inuit way of life, and how the portrayal of seal hunting and anti-seal hunting campaigns have impacted them. What I found astounding is that in the 8 years it took to…
Phantasm
Never actually seen Phantasm so thought seeing it for the first time in the cinema at midnight would be nice. I really didn’t know what to expect, except for the image of The Tall Man and the fact it was a second-shelf classic. Watching it, I was just like, “My God.” An early best-worst movie.…
A Cure For Wellness
A bingo card of obvious cliches. Another horror film that confuses creepy for loud. That movie felt like it lasted 4 or 5 days. Utterly without merit apart from the 90-second dentistry scene.
A Quiet Passion
A biopic of Emily Dickinson. This could focus on a number of aspects of Dickinson’s life but focuses on her spirituality and solitary inner life. Because she lived her entire life more or less in her family home, the whole film is basically Cynthia Nixon wandering round a house, greeting in every room. The cast…
The Lure
A documentary about the treasure seekers scouring the Rockies for Forrest Finn’s hidden million-dollar treasure. There’s a computer programmer-turned-cowboy, a retired cop, a guy getting chemo, all tramping over the wilderness. The film kinda examines what each of them is looking for and how this treasure hunt provides them with an opportunity to find it.…