john sturges wasn't just a great western director, a great action director, a great escape artist -- he was an artist, period. while the old studio system was falling apart, he kept making better and better pictures -- 1963 was the year of cleopatra, the epitome of a wasteful production. by contrast, sturges directs the great escape, a film that is nothing but necessary images, as needful these men are of defying the odds and sticking it to the german…
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Drive-Away Dolls 2024
the movie that the american cinema so desperately needs -- unapologetically crass, colorful, silly, an actual b-movie in the age where every other picture has to be Eventized™ to move the needle. i admire drive-away dolls' lack of ambition, its willingness to be a short and sweet diversion by loading itself with episodic gags. this is a film in love with crash-zooms, canted angles, goofy transitions, off-beat henchmen and macguffins -- it has a spiritual kinship with the work of…
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Last Night in Soho 2021
a film has to be more than just neon lights attached to your spotify playlist
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021
venom LITERALLY said gay rights!!!
they gave every single worst line in the script to michelle williams and she carried that shit like a champ. robert richardson photographed the crap out of this as well when he definitely didn't need to. absolutely dumb as hell, i loved every second of it. reminds you that capeshit doesn't have to be totally irredeemable self-important garbage; there's hope for cinema yet! give me a hundred more screwball comedies with big stupid queer slime creatures!!!