Phantasm 4

They were just trying to confuse us with this one, right?

5.5/10


Plague Town

Pretty cool, it's got a good creepy element to it. The ending lets it down a bit though. just a cop out realy.

7/10

Cloverfield

Outpost. Pretty decent horror flick set in some random insurgency riddled block of Europe. Nothing special, but the eclectic bunch of hardened mercenaries was in itself almost worth 90 minutes of my life.

Antibodies. Up until the very end, i thought this one to be quite good. Pretty twisted story that keeps leading ya down the wrong road. i thought acting to be superb, with the psycho quite realistic. While the ending was not really a cop out, i found it to be a little too contrived and sappy. Also, if one contemplates this flick, there is one whole that a Mack truck could fit through, but then again, i don't always watch films to hone my skills in logical thought.
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Great review, I definately agree with your ideas. I'm glad you enjoyed your revisit- have you checked out Criterion's release of Simon of the Desert yet? One of his funniest and most potent films (the cut production never bothers me, the runtime and ending feel just right) and there's an excellent documentary of the disc which covers his Mexican career.

*edit* Wow, I sound like a spokesman for Criterion.

Jules et Jim (1962)

There is so much energy to Truffaut's direction here that it seems almost impossible to fall for his passion for filmmaking, even if you can't fall for any of the three characters; however, I did fall for them, and I attribute this to brilliant personal development which puts an emphasis on the characters' flaws rather than their charms, making them totally human. We are never a step ahead of these people, and they are never a step ahead of each other or themselves. Their decisions are quick and thoughtless, coming only from the heart (or from a little lower, sometimes), and the free-spirited love triangle that forms is admirable if only for its organicness. In contrast to Truffaut's first feature film, there are no borders or boundaries to the characters; they are not trapped by anything, and neither war nor business can keep the curious entanglement between Jules and Catherine and Jim apart. The director's playful style has similarities to some of his friend Godard's, but Truffaut's seems lighter and more sincere; he actually has fun exploring the world of Jules and Jim, and because of his enthusiasm there is never a dull moment. Funny, charming, strange and poetic.

You ever see STRAIGHT TIME? It's my favorite Hoffman performance and the film is adapted from the Edward Bunker novel No Beast So Fierce which is one of my favorite novels

Thanks, Alky. I definitely needed to rewatch it since the first time I saw it, it was in awful shape, the subtitles were really bad, and I think there were some scenes missing.

I haven't checked out Simon of the Desert, actually! That's one I keep passing over and I don't know why. I'll have to pick it up soon, with it being a fairly cheap release due to the runtime.
Thanks for the rec!

Haha, I feel the same way all the time.

Splinter

Not too bad random creature type flick. Pretty much by the numbers but there are a few genuinely nasty bonecrunching moments and the look of the film is good. Certainly worth a viewing.


The Wrestler

Great film, absolutely top notch. 'nuff said

Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2

Day of the beast

It's a pretty fun movie, it offered a bit more than it delivered though.

7/10