The sort of unruly, ambitious, non-commercial vanity project which just doesn't get greenlit these days. Yet on the back of a couple of critically acclaimed hit movies, director Ari Astor somehow seems to have been given free reign to deliver this meandering and madcap three hour long oddball odyssey without a hint of self-restraint or sanity.
I have to say I loved the opening act, an increasingly unhinged urban nightmare of escalating paranoia, panic and perversion, a sort of After…
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
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Scala!!! 2023
This has been pretty much top of my watchlist ever since it was announced as a feature length project. I am of that age where I was actually lucky enough to not only remember the notorious Scala Cinema in London's not exactly glittering King's Cross, but was also a reasonably frequent visitor.
As somebody living outside the capital, I would tend to catch the singular daily bus from our provincial town and spend the day / night in London (usually…
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RoboCop 1987
Browsing through my 2013 diary here on Letterboxd it became apparent the vast majority of films I watched last year were either current or recent releases. To remedy this I decided to expand my viewing habits a bit more in 2014 by catching up with a few more vintage offerings, whether they be first-time watches or long overdue rewatches.
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The Raid 2 2014
2011's The Raid was lean, mean, lightning-paced, and carried absolutely zero baggage, it was a supercharged combination of visual flair and insane ultraviolence. So the decision to develop the story in this eagerly-awaited sequel to a far more expansive narrative based around an undercover infiltration of the underworld, and the duplicity and dealings of gangland politics and rivalry, was always going to deliver a different, far broader kind of film. As a result The Raid 2, weighing in at a…