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  • Albino Alligator

    ★★★★

  • Viva Erotica

    ★★★

  • The Taking of Beverly Hills

    ★★★★

  • Rome, Armed to the Teeth

    ★★★★

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  • Albino Alligator

    Albino Alligator

    ★★★★

    Joins the ranks of such other classic nonsensically-named noir as SEXY BEAST and CATCH FIRE, filmed in sweaty LA but is supposed to take place in sweaty and jazzy New Orleans. All-star cast, dark and grisly, dour mood, wrinkles are gradually introduced into the plot, a great slo-mo overhead shot of a car collision....directed by noted sex pest Kevin Spacey, only one of the two movies he made (or will make). The direction is actually the best part of the…

  • Viva Erotica

    Viva Erotica

    ★★★

    Surf rock and manic coitus over the intro credits, okay you have my attention. The exasperated director uses "CAT III" as an insult; mom predicts the housing crash; later, an analysis of a CAT III script produces teleological concerns about the need for film as a medium. Surf rock returns during on-set sexual assault. Some great mood cinematography, apt for a movie about movies. It's like The Player but jokey and carefree; it really humanizes the HK film industry to…

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  • The Last of Sheila

    The Last of Sheila

    ★★★★½

    If an eccentric aristocrat invited me to an exclusive party and he had assistants wearing shirts with his dead wife's name printed on them then I'd think it was completely unsuspicious and totally not weird at all.

  • SHOP: A Pop Opera

    SHOP: A Pop Opera

    ★★★★★

    I relate to this character because I'm also tall, dry, skinny and pathologically indecisive when shopping for food.