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Virus:32 2022
Full review: filmblitz.org/virus-32-2022/
Once the building goes into lockdown, it feels as if the makers’ creativity is locked down alongside it. This is almost more frustrating than a more rote, by the numbers production, since there are enough scenes here to indicate skill and imagination are both present and available. Quite why they don’t exercise it – instead choosing to coast for much of the movie, content to recycle leftovers from preceding zombie movies – is a disappointing mystery.
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Only the Brave 2017
Full review: filmblitz.org/only-the-brave-2017/
At 134 minutes, the film is likely overlong, especially since you know where it’s going. Nor is there any real sense of heroism, since the Hotshots didn’t sacrifice themselves to save lives, or anything more significant than a few homes. On the other hand, prior knowledge adds a definite sense of foreboding, and you can do nothing to stop Marsh leading his men to their doom. The acting is generally solid: this keeps the movie from burning…
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Jesus Christ Saviour 2008
Klaus Kinski vs. 5,000 annoyed hippies.
What could possibly go wrong?
Full review: klaus.kinski.us/jesus-christus-erloser-2008/
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Delinquent School Girls 1975
This 1975 grindhouse feature has three men locked up in an "asylem" [that's the spelling on the gate!] for the criminally insane. There's Carl (Pataki), a crap vaudeville entertainer driven mad after losing a booking; "Big Dick" Peters (Minor), a former baseball player with a history of indecent exposure; and a "latent homosexual" (Stucker), who really doesn't seem very latent at all. They escape from the lunatic asylum, and their route to escape eventually brings them to the Oxford Corrective…
