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Revenge (2017) - solid B exploitation revenge flick, but I expected more based on some reviews/forums commentary. 3/5
Tom à la ferme
Year: 2014
Director : Xavier Dolan
A small and fascinating physiological drama starring and directed by Xavier Dolan,playing as the lead role Tom ,who travels down to a rural community to attend his lovers (Guillaume ) funeral.What surpasses that ,and what Tom had initially deemed as no more than a passing visit, is a slow brooding sense of discomfort in his new open environment and the apparent tension between himself (Tom) and Guillaume's older brother Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), a overpowering homophobic farmer with a exaggerated masculinity issue that becomes more apparent as the film steadily develops, and the frail solidarity figure of Francis, the mother of house and owner of the farm ,played with a unnerving willfull ignorant bliss by Francis Longchamp.
Recommended.
★★★★
The Warriors
Year: 1979
Director : Walter Hill
The Warriors is a small action thriller made by the director of 'tough guy movies' Walter Hill.
The film revolves around the Coney Island gang 'The Warriors' and thier inital goal of becoming a well respected name in the ever growing presense of the inner city gang community.
What disrupts their goal though is the false accusation that The Warriors were deemed as the sole perpetrators of the death of Cyrus, the leader of the inner city's most powerful gang the 'Gramercy Riffs',who was shot cold in the dead of night while preaching to the city's various group of known gang members.
What continues after that is a long-winded case for The Warriors to plead their innocence with constant fighting,dramatic running and jumping and the over the top representation of male masculinity and some outright embarrassing misogyny.
The film has a interesting theme buried underneath bysides most of the banal action ,the acting in general certainty isn't bad and the films comic book-esq transition into new scenes is humorous enough but the film,overall,wont live long in the memory for me so,selfishly,it's hard for me to recommend it.
★★
Year: 2014
Director : Xavier Dolan
A small and fascinating physiological drama starring and directed by Xavier Dolan,playing as the lead role Tom ,who travels down to a rural community to attend his lovers (Guillaume ) funeral.What surpasses that ,and what Tom had initially deemed as no more than a passing visit, is a slow brooding sense of discomfort in his new open environment and the apparent tension between himself (Tom) and Guillaume's older brother Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), a overpowering homophobic farmer with a exaggerated masculinity issue that becomes more apparent as the film steadily develops, and the frail solidarity figure of Francis, the mother of house and owner of the farm ,played with a unnerving willfull ignorant bliss by Francis Longchamp.
Recommended.
★★★★
The Warriors
Year: 1979
Director : Walter Hill
The Warriors is a small action thriller made by the director of 'tough guy movies' Walter Hill.
The film revolves around the Coney Island gang 'The Warriors' and thier inital goal of becoming a well respected name in the ever growing presense of the inner city gang community.
What disrupts their goal though is the false accusation that The Warriors were deemed as the sole perpetrators of the death of Cyrus, the leader of the inner city's most powerful gang the 'Gramercy Riffs',who was shot cold in the dead of night while preaching to the city's various group of known gang members.
What continues after that is a long-winded case for The Warriors to plead their innocence with constant fighting,dramatic running and jumping and the over the top representation of male masculinity and some outright embarrassing misogyny.
The film has a interesting theme buried underneath bysides most of the banal action ,the acting in general certainty isn't bad and the films comic book-esq transition into new scenes is humorous enough but the film,overall,wont live long in the memory for me so,selfishly,it's hard for me to recommend it.
★★
Johnny Mnemonic
year: 1981
Director : Robert Longo
Minor a few fancy CGI effects and witnessing the tragic late years of Flipper (the dolphin) this film was absolutely dreadful.
Goodnight.
year: 1981
Director : Robert Longo
Minor a few fancy CGI effects and witnessing the tragic late years of Flipper (the dolphin) this film was absolutely dreadful.
Goodnight.
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The Fog (1980)
I found this John Carpenter film to be an excellent viewing experience, despite it not being really scary imo. It is eerie and spooky though in terms of atmosphere and it builds tension in a good way by withholding from the audience any visual clues as to what is happening in the titular fog most of the time and before anything truly violent or scary happens you get a lot of foreshadowing, with characters either ignoring clues or strange clues or not knowing how to react to the increasingly terrifying events that are occurring. It works to the film's advantage that the characters mostly do not interact throughout the film but are finally brought together during the climax. There is a certain inevitability that I don't remember seeing in a lot of films of this kind. Adrienne Barbeau is excellent and charming as the local DJ Stevie Wayne and the ending is a great way to finish a ghost story imo. Throughout the film you just know that something terrible is about to happen and once it starts, you don't know how bad things are going to get. This film really makes me want to spend the rest of the night watching John Carpenter films.
9/10
I found this John Carpenter film to be an excellent viewing experience, despite it not being really scary imo. It is eerie and spooky though in terms of atmosphere and it builds tension in a good way by withholding from the audience any visual clues as to what is happening in the titular fog most of the time and before anything truly violent or scary happens you get a lot of foreshadowing, with characters either ignoring clues or strange clues or not knowing how to react to the increasingly terrifying events that are occurring. It works to the film's advantage that the characters mostly do not interact throughout the film but are finally brought together during the climax. There is a certain inevitability that I don't remember seeing in a lot of films of this kind. Adrienne Barbeau is excellent and charming as the local DJ Stevie Wayne and the ending is a great way to finish a ghost story imo. Throughout the film you just know that something terrible is about to happen and once it starts, you don't know how bad things are going to get. This film really makes me want to spend the rest of the night watching John Carpenter films.
9/10
I would love for The Warriors to be remade with a bigger budgetDREAMER wrote: ↑July 27th, 2018, 9:39 amTom à la ferme
Year: 2014
Director : Xavier Dolan
A small and fascinating physiological drama starring and directed by Xavier Dolan,playing as the lead role Tom ,who travels down to a rural community to attend his lovers (Guillaume ) funeral.What surpasses that ,and what Tom had initially deemed as no more than a passing visit, is a slow brooding sense of discomfort in his new open environment and the apparent tension between himself (Tom) and Guillaume's older brother Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), a overpowering homophobic farmer with a exaggerated masculinity issue that becomes more apparent as the film steadily develops, and the frail solidarity figure of Francis, the mother of house and owner of the farm ,played with a unnerving willfull ignorant bliss by Francis Longchamp.
Recommended.
★★★★
The Warriors
Year: 1979
Director : Walter Hill
The Warriors is a small action thriller made by the director of 'tough guy movies' Walter Hill.
The film revolves around the Coney Island gang 'The Warriors' and thier inital goal of becoming a well respected name in the ever growing presense of the inner city gang community.
What disrupts their goal though is the false accusation that The Warriors were deemed as the sole perpetrators of the death of Cyrus, the leader of the inner city's most powerful gang the 'Gramercy Riffs',who was shot cold in the dead of night while preaching to the city's various group of known gang members.
What continues after that is a long-winded case for The Warriors to plead their innocence with constant fighting,dramatic running and jumping and the over the top representation of male masculinity and some outright embarrassing misogyny.
The film has a interesting theme buried underneath bysides most of the banal action ,the acting in general certainty isn't bad and the films comic book-esq transition into new scenes is humorous enough but the film,overall,wont live long in the memory for me so,selfishly,it's hard for me to recommend it.
★★
thoroughbreds is so good it made me want to watch The Player
-Vader
-Vader
Safety Not Guaranteed
This is still so good. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a very chill indie film to watch. Performances are great all around and the story is really solid.
This is still so good. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a very chill indie film to watch. Performances are great all around and the story is really solid.
Con Air and The Rock double bill in 35mm
Holy shit I have not had this much fun at the cinema for ages
Holy shit I have not had this much fun at the cinema for ages
