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Bitch Slap!

In: Film|Review

24 Mar 2010

Women are evil & this proves it. Well, OK, not really, just in this narrative construction. An inconsistent, yet fairly lovable scatter-shot narrative that’s effectively an homage to Russ Meyer’s boobsploitation replete with stilted dialogue, posturing, cat fights, and the wanton emasculation of men good and bad. A lot of nods to cinematic stylings Tarantino [...]

REC 2:

In: Film|Review

24 Mar 2010

Can’t describe the delight I felt tracking a subtitled copy of this down. And then I watched it. While I don’t feel devastated by what I watched last night, I don’t feel great about it either. Sure, it’s congruent to the first one, and demonstrates an admirable reuse of the same space, low budget filmmakers [...]

The Shining:

In: Film|Review|Updates

23 Mar 2010

Better every time I see this, at least for the most part, and I always discover new things, always lament the decision to whack Scatman Crothers, and always host an internal debate about how much more satisfying the novel’s ending is, though concede the films holds it’s own regardless of the massive deviations. Never noticed [...]


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