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  Video Murders 1988

  ★★ Watched by Andrew Moncrieff 26 Jun 2022

  More like Video Murder, singular. As long as this is set in grainy 16mm Louisiana night it’s mildly compelling - whenever it tries to focus on plot, or the 90 year long car chase in the third act, it’s an absolute disaster. Just boring beyond words - but the lead actor’s overwrought performance is kind of funny here and there.

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  John Dies at the End 2012

  ★★★ Rewatched by Andrew Moncrieff 26 Jun 2022

  A bit more lively than Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End is a reality bending exercise and therefore comfortable territory for the director of Phantasm.
  I read the book way back when and found it very readable, charming and funny. The subsequent books scrape readable but didn’t do much for me. But I remember when I watched this film being very disappointed it gouged the entire Vegas portion of the book out. I just read a YouTube comment on…

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  Brightburn 2019

  Watched by Andrew Moncrieff 11 May 2019 6

  A twist on Superman where he’s a horrible murderer?

  
  Seen it. It was Man of Steel.

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  Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut 2006

  ★★★★ Watched by Andrew Moncrieff 15 Nov 2019 6

  I am so happy to see this unseen footage from Superman II that I find it hard to be objective. There are logistical problems to Superman’s solution to Lois throwing herself out of the Daily Planet’s window (why did no one see Clark shooting a red lazer from his eyes?), which evaporate in the Niagara falls version of this sequence from the theatrical cut. None the less, Lois’ discovery in the Planet that Clark and Superman sure look a lot…