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Yiannos

yiannos
Celluloid Junkie - 2878 Film Ratings
Member Since: 07 Jul 2014
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Bio: I love film and rate according to genre and/or a director's body of work.

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55 36% Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993) - Rated 14 Apr 2024
60 48% Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) - Rated 09 Apr 2024
"A curious quasi-'anthropological' document about a faded world of metal fandom, when the style was at the peak of its popularity. As a metal fan for decades, what stands out now is how it captures a time when the genre appealed more to the working class and the fans embraced it unironically, without distance, before its traditional forms fell by the wayside and the style became increasingly fragmented, spiraling in a million different directions. Innocence lost."
35 3% Howling III (1987) - Rated 31 Mar 2024
"A friend of mine who passed away years ago wrote a long article defending Howling III, attempting a 'socio-political' reading within the context of the conservative Australian culture of the 1980's, well before it was fashionable to champion 'Ozploitation'. It was quite possibly what sparked my interest in meeting him, so for that I'm grateful, but it was also more interesting than the film itself, which is a gigantic mess pitched awkwardly (i.e. amateurishly) between camp and satire."
45 13% The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) - Rated 27 Mar 2024
"Feldman complained his cut was butchered by Universal, which was a story later corroborated by York, but it's difficult to see signs of greatness in this lazy slapstick. A good 'spoof' works on its own terms and is funny regardless of whether the viewer is familiar with the parodic target (e.g. The Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein etc). This doesn't. Feldman had some talent, but his act was one note, relying too heavily on looking stupid and/or weird, and like Wilder, he had no feel for pacing."
70 71% The Daughters of Fire (2023) - Rated 23 Mar 2024
"Costa recontextualises his distinctive imagery and focus on dislocated Cape Verdeans in the form of a kind of operatic musical, featuring split screen panels of 3 women singing over an arrangement of Biagio Marini’s “Passacaglia (Opus 22). It is an interesting experiment from a director who has perhaps become too comfortable operating within his signature style, and while the documentary footage is somewhat jarring, this is a promising test run for a future feature currently in development."
50 26% The Wicked Darling (1919) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"Early Browning has most of the key elements that would later come to define him in place, but it's also strangely benign (for him) and could have leaned more heavily into its pod scum milieu to dig deeper into dirt."
50 26% Oppenheimer (2023) - Rated 11 Mar 2024
"See Brody's review. Technically well made but rather empty in terms of its engagement with the broader political, scientific and moral implications of the bomb's existence, deployment and aftermath for the 20th century as well as humanity."
50 26% Wild Bill (1995) - Rated 09 Mar 2024
"Neither sufficiently 'mythic' or a close character study, it is unclear why Hill made it or what he was trying to say, if anything, about this particular historical figure. The quasi-impressionist approach to narrative doesn't really work, especially as the flashbacks disrupt its rhythm, and the overall production resembles a studio project demoted to television. It is a curiosity for fans of Hill and Bridges, but it merely confirms why the former was better at urban westerns."
30 2% School Spirit (1985) - Rated 23 Feb 2024
"It is what it is. Great VHS cover though."
58 42% The Holdovers (2023) - Rated 20 Feb 2024
"Like Gray, who is becoming increasingly anonymous with time, there are exaggerated claims about Payne positioning him as a kind of modern heir to the New Hollywood throne. 70's films weren't this damn conventional though, unless one is referring to lesser works that have been completely forgotten. He certainly doesn't resemble any of the great US directors of that time, except for maybe Ashby at his most toothless.Giamatti is good, but it is just decent contemporary middlebrow fare.Nothing more."