It's like Cape Fear if you threw in every late 80s early 90s mid budget action movie trend in a blender. Explosions, drugs, gangbangers and breasts they're all here. Every performance is played to the hilt as the camera glides and pushes its way into Denzel and Lithgow's even more manic faces. It's like every scene was dedicated to having one insanely memorable moment where someone dies horribly or something explodes.
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Castello Cavalcanti 2013
Basically a Wes Anderson film as a powerpoint slide, which means I clap like a trained seal whenever he pans right.
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Halloween 1978
There's something mythical about John Carpenter's "Halloween". Perhaps that's why it's inspired so much reverence over the years. It's a deceptively simple story; a masked homicidal maniac escapes from a mental institution in order to murder a group of babysitters on Halloween night. The film is told with the razor sharp focus and the relentlessness that can only come from working on a shoestring budget. Not a scene is wasted, not one useless shot or camera movement, or a one…