David W

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  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Don't Look Now
  • Midnight Cowboy

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  • Altered States

    ★

  • The Stepford Wives

    ★★★★

  • Blood Simple

    ★★★★½

  • Wait Until Dark

    ★★★½

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  • Altered States

    Altered States 1980

    ★ Watched 21 Mar 2025 9

    This film sucks a giant bag of monkey dicks.

    That really says it all. I’m at a loss for how else to capture the inanity of this cinematic vulgarity. A singular vulgarity. Oh, if only it were vulgar! Where’s the kind of finger-up-the-butt affront to bourgeois sensibilities with which Ken Russell normally butters his bread? Maybe vulgarity isn’t the right word. Altered States is more like a cinematic abomination.

    In other words, Altered States sucks a giant bag of monkey…

  • The Stepford Wives

    The Stepford Wives 1975

    ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

    The less adventurous and cinematically inspired sibling of Rosemary's Baby. Directed by Bryan Forbes of Séance on a Wet Afternoon fame, The Stepfird Wives feels, at times, like a wet rag of a film—like a 70’s TV movie, relatively limp and subpar compared to theatrical counterparts (no offense to Tina Louise, but her casting certainly doesn’t help). For every great shot and scene that unfold in the film, we’re treated to inexplicably tepid moments of mise-en-scène, yielding a somewhat disjointed…

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  • Blood Simple

    Blood Simple 1984

    ★★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2025 3

    The film equivalent of a fever dream. With its recurring, stark imagery and endless character disorientation, Blood Simple lays out a dreamscape of languid action, where one setting effortlessly transforms into another and time has no steady grounding. It’s a dreamscape perfectly instantiated in the scene where Abby (Frances McDormand), in close-up, surveys the tableau of damage to Marty’s (Dan Hedaya) office, only to glide backward (with the camera fixed in its close-up) as the office backdrop falls away to…

  • Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Dead 1978

    ★★★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2023 2

    Pure but thoughtful entertainment from start to finish, George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead is a joyous comic book and roller coaster ride of a film, with hints of the fun house experience sprinkled in for good measure. It positively bursts with great humor, broad yet biting satire, effectively realized gore and guts (though, as Tom Savini freely admits, the blood’s color leaves something to be desired), suspense, thrills, interpersonal drama, and a kick-ass soundtrack (thanks especially to Goblin). Like…

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