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Reviews

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  Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 1972

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★★ 2

  Trash made sublime, De Sade filtered through the surrealists but not Bataille. Abjection is the human condition, wallowing on mounds of garbage is what we were made to do, and…

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  Invasion of the Star Creatures 1962

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★★

  Delicious stupidity, constant joking corniness that overwhelmed my resistance. Script by Jonathan Haze, so there's a Corman connection, but the movie was directed by Bruno Ve Sota, who is maybe…

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  Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021

  

  mmcc ★★★★ 1

  Tarnished visions, lost films and abandoned or otherwise destroyed cuts are not unusual occurrences in the history of cinema. Erich von Stroheim’s Greed, Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que viva México! and Ivan…

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  Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021

  

  Vikrant N

  Still not what I’d call “good” but I have to applaud Snyder’s utter sincerity and almost Michael Mann-esque commitment to turning his bro-ey pulp into mythic soap opera. Doesn’t really…

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  The Executioner 1963

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★ 4

  You know those Eastern European comedies that wouldn't amount to much if you failed to recognize the satirical subtext about daily life within totalitarianism? That's this, but a little less…

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  Too Late for Tears 1949

  

  Samantha Wendel

  Dan Duryea saying "peeved" 👍

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  Main Hoon Na 2004

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★

  The image of college life given here --awesomest post-adolescent party campus of non!stop! FUN! -- is an expression of anti-intellectual faux-populism that I only can find offensive... but it's illustrated…

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  Capital 2012

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★

  Costa-Gavras shifts his attention from the governance done by politicians to the governance done by financiers; the result is a tasteful, reserved version of the critique of neoliberalism that gets…