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The Hunt for Red October 1990

★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025 10

I miss the Cold War.
Sure there was the dread about nuclear war, but I still miss it. As messy and costly as it was, there was still a good guys vs. bad guys vibe to it all. The ideological hokum about communism vs. capitalism was overblown. It really came down to the fact that the Soviet Union was expansionist and totalitarian while the American side was more democratic and free-thinking. The thing about all of the American characters in…
Longlegs 2024

★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

Longlegs was my second Oz Perkins film, after The Monkey last week. I never would have guessed both movies were directed by the same person. Longlegs has excellent control over its tone from the unnerving framing of the first shot of Nic Cage to the Blair Underwood's amazing acting choices in the climax. This film sends the hopeless bleak despair meter way over to the right, pushing the needle a bit beyond Se7en, but not quite to Ben Wheatley's Kill…

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Q 1982

★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

Q: AKA Quetzal-Plot-Hole, AKA The Bird With Invisible Plumage...
Woof. This is one of those movies that is mostly inept but filled with enough wild swings and WTF moments to keep the watchability level high. Here are my top five head-scratchers from auteur Larry Cohen:
1. What a bold move to make your main protagonist a complete slimeball. Michael Moriarty's Jimmy is such a whiny, conniving SOB that I spent every second he was on screen hoping Q would show…
The Fall Guy 2024

★★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025 3

The Fall Guy is a clunky, self-referential rom-com merged with a clunky, self-referential movie about making movies...movie. These bones are wrapped in some sexy bacon, though. I'm awarding about half a star each for the following:
-This dialog:
Gail: ...what is the message of all my movies?
Colt: Um....'nihilism is a viable worldview'?
-The stunt where Colt is fighting with a goon in Tom Ryder's apartment and he pushes them both through a glass partition into a backwards fall off…

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