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Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.
Read MoreWhile this is undeniably a poor movie, it is indeed fun to watch, but not taken as a representation of Juan Piquer Simón’s finest work.
Read MoreI’m not sure about Penny Slot, but I’m pretty sure that Showgirls 2 is a gift from heaven. Doubly so for the woman who created it.
Read More‘I’m here, I’m Homoti, get used to it.’
Read MoreDespite its oddball ending and workmanlike production, Riverbend is a noteworthy blend of drive-in shoot ‘em up and radical historical revisionism.
Read MoreNot every film needs to be built. Some films need to be survived. Help!!! is that kind of movie, and it earns every one of those three exclamation points.
Read MoreVampyros Lesbos is an experience where logic and reality are afterthoughts, a truly dreamlike film that exists as a delivery method for beautiful women doing strange and exciting things around some lavishly-designed contemporary decor while one of the grooviest psychedelic scores of all time takes things to another dimension.
Read MoreHard Target (1993), while sometimes dismissed as a middling Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle, has taken its honorable place in John Woo’s filmography.
Read MoreIn the middle of February, when movie theaters around the country screen both classic Valentine’s Day films and off-the-beaten-path romantic repertory programming, Weird Wednesday at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar presented director Sammo Hung’s rom-com action film Pedicab Driver.
Read MoreLove Me Deadly is a baffling enigma of a film.
Read MoreFoodfight! is a frightening look at the future of film.
Read MoreBefore we even meet the central couple, the film frames sex not as a conquest for pleasure or love, but as a means to start a philosophy lecture on the human drive.
Read MoreThis movie was the end of an era, and it deserves your time. We didn’t know how good we had it.
Read MoreIn Dead Bang, Don Johnson’s Jerry Beck isn’t a wisecracking action hero like John McClane; he’s exhausted, bureaucratically constrained, and emotionally numb. The movie keeps reminding you that this is a job, not an adventure. He’s got bigger fish to fry, it seems.
Read MoreDespite the difficult exterior, the film strives to look lovingly at New York City, knowing under the rough edges there’s a place full of beauty and unique magic, a victim itself of fraught leadership.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered if Santa Claus could beat Lucifer in an ultimate battle of good and evil? If yes, do I have the movie for you!
Read MoreVerhoeven trusts us to take in an onslaught of religious parallels and florid symbolism and come to our own conclusions on what it all means—if anything.
Read MoreMovies are often described as having dream logic or otherwise being dreamlike, and this truly feels like a dream.
Read MoreWho Killed Teddy Bear? is a seemingly salacious examination of human perversity, but there is room here for something more nuanced, thanks to performances that elevate the material.
Read MoreThe Apple is a campy, blast from the past, borderline hippie propaganda mess that I couldn’t look away from and a not-so-genius product of its time.
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