Not 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.
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Vampyros 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.
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Hard Target (1993), while sometimes dismissed as a middling Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle, has taken its honorable place in John Woo’s filmography.
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In 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.
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Love Me Deadly is a baffling enigma of a film.
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Foodfight! is a frightening look at the future of film.
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Before 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.
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This movie was the end of an era, and it deserves your time. We didn’t know how good we had it.
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In 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.
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Despite 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.
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Have 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!
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Verhoeven 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.
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Movies are often described as having dream logic or otherwise being dreamlike, and this truly feels like a dream.
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Who 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.
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The 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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Despite being in the public domain, Spider Baby is best shared with a whole room filled with friends and strangers, a communal experience in beautiful weirdness before its time. It’s almost like Jack Hill dared to ask the question: What if the Addams Family were as dangerous as they were lovable?
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Surfer, Dude is tonally deranged, structurally unfocused, and difficult to fully comprehend… but, the vibes were good.
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What happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
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Ninja Terminator tells the story of three ninjas, led by Ninja Master Harry (Richard Harrison), who pull off a heist against an all-powerful, entirely-evil, oddly-omnipresent crime empire run by ninjas.
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From the supernatural ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and demons, to the more cold-blooded reality of violent murderers and devious psychopaths, there are more than enough options to chill a viewer to the core. Despite all of these more traditional horrors, nothing affects me quite so much as the very real fear of simply losing my grasp on reality without any kind of warning, and at its core, this is what Gaspar Noe’s Climax is all about.
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