Accumulator of VHS. Consumer of global genre cinema. Founder of Saint Louis Video Society.
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The Lost Daughter 2021
Quality debut from Gyllenhaal. Elliptical, foreboding and unsettling drama, with echoes of Paul Shrader and Ulrich Seidl.
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The Laughing Policeman 1973
Absolutely braindead procedural that somehow wastes Matthau and Dern. Disappointing adaptation, from a Swedish crime novel, by the director of Cool Hand Luke.
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Hasta Que El Sol Se Oculte (Víctimas De La Noche) 1995
Extreme Mexican sleaze about a sick, twisted family that abducts women, chains them in a basement, and makes them into drugged-up prostitutes. The "bad son" getting stabbed in the penis in the first five minutes of the movie really sets the tone.
Includes a lot of cuts to a $14.99 Spirit Halloween witch automaton (pictured), that doesn't seem to have any connection to the plot.
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In the Line of Duty 4 1989
Fun fights, lots of action, not much else going on. Sadly feels like the first Tiger Cage was a tipping point for Yuen Woo Ping as a director able to tie action to engaging plot.
