2024 movie viewings, #18. This is one of those foreign erotic thrillers always being recommended to me by Tubi (aka "Cinemax for the streaming age"); but I gotta say, in this particular case, I have never in my life seen a bigger disconnect between a movie poster and the actual contents of that movie. In reality a dreary art film about a feuding extended family who run a surrealistically large and labyrinthine porn theater in the Philippines, it contains two…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
Class of 1999 1990
2024 movie viewings, #17. This "sequel" to the early-'80s cult classic Class of 1984 (which actually isn't a sequel at all, other than being written and directed by the same guy and both films having the words "Class of" in their titles) is some pretty ridiculous nonsense, a dystopian day-after-tomorrow tale in which out-of-control teens are now taught in corporate-owned high schools run by murderous robots (can you tell this was made only two years after Robocop?). However, for an…
Popular reviews
More-
The Piano Teacher 2001
I originally downloaded this as part of "Michael Haneke" week of the 2017 Film School Dropouts challenge, but didn't get around to watching it until last month. Against my better judgement, I keep watching Haneke films on a regular basis, in the hopes that I'll finally understand why so many otherwise intelligent people admire him so much (he's a regular winner on the festival circuit, for those who don't know, and is adored by the academic art-film crowd); yet after…
-
The Stranger 1946
FILM SCHOOL DROPOUT: A 2017 year-long movie challenge
My list | Disgustipated's master list
Week 12: Orson WellesAh, genius youth -- is there any greater curse? After a charmed early career in which he could literally do no wrong, first in live theater (where among other accolades he produced the first-ever all-black Shakespeare production on Broadway), and then radio (where his infamously realistic modern updating of War of the Worlds caused a national panic), the 24-year-old Welles then hit…