Yiannos
Bio: I love film and rate according to genre and/or a director's body of work.
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| 50 26% | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) - Rated 07 Oct 2024 |
| 63 54% | Trash Humpers (2009) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"Like Gummo, it creates a hermetically sealed world of bizarre people doing crazy things, cut off from the world of civilization as we know it. Only this time, due to the VHS style footage, it almost plays like an unwelcome depiction of life in the past during the great social decline captured on tape for all to see. It lacks Gummo's freshness and memorability, and like most Korine films it's near impossible to rate, but moments and images stay with you, which obviously counts for something."
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| 50 26% | The 4:30 Movie (2024) - Rated 02 Oct 2024
"Better than Clerks 3 and the Jay and Silent Bob sequel, but the acting is uneven and the writing is weak, relying too heavily on 'ironic' jokes about future predictions that never materialised and lazy banter that lacks the rhythm and nerve of Clerks and Mallrats. Agudong is incredibly charming as the cute girl next door, and Smith does create some nostalgia for the old pre-multiplex movie going experience. What it lacks is a sense of significance beyond Smith's adolescent mindset."
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| 43 10% | Drifting (1923) - Rated 23 Sep 2024
"Wong had an engaging screen presence beyond the usual scarcity arguments (i.e. being an early Hollywood Asian actress), and Dean was typically dependable, but this mix of crime melodrama and 'Asian exotica' was done far better a year earlier in Outside the Law (Browning+Dean+Chaney), which featured a compelling plot and tense action scenes that trump anything offered here."
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| 53 32% | Disco Godfather (1979) - Rated 21 Sep 2024
"Score is meaningless as usual. If you like Moore, you will appreciate it on some level. If not, you won't. On the plus side, it actually follows through with its 'concept', Moore has fun with the disco angle, even though he probably didn't like it, and the ending is genuinely bonkers. There are more chest shots than butt shots too, but it's clear that he was out of ideas, losing touch and on the way out, just like disco itself."
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| 50 26% | Longlegs (2024) - Rated 24 Aug 2024
"Some interesting shots and directorial decisions cannot disguise the cliche ridden nature of the material or its forced 'eccentricity', and not just from Cage either. Plays suspiciously like the work of The Conjuring crew at times, but it is less 'fun' and more 'pretentious', for lack of a better term. Vague echoes of Lynch too, to no avail, and the use of empty space does not add depth or meaning. In short: not worth the hype. Score is probably generous."
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| 65 60% | Aggro Dr1ft (2023) - Rated 03 Aug 2024
"Predator vision: the movie."
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| 40 7% | Superdad (1973) - Rated 19 Jul 2024
"Clueless Crane trying desperately hard to halt his declining career and public reputation as a man so out of step that he has lost touch with reality. His everyman schtick fails to stick in this aimless generation gap 'comedy' because his character's motivations are too poorly defined to make him mildly relatable or even detestable, which creates a low stakes narrative that unwinds in a rather episodic fashion."
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| 40 7% | The Faculty (1998) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"Weak teen Gen X spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that neither subverts, parodies or updates previous entries to reflect changing socio-political realities."
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| 40 7% | Young Einstein (1988) - Rated 25 May 2024
"A very generous rating based on 80's Aussie nostalgia. It's a daft idea that had some creative potential but rarely takes flight due to the serious (no pun!) limitations of its star/helmer, who was not particularly skilled at staging jokes or developing ideas, and the Einstein quote at the end is the final kick to the balls. The overall impression is one of hubris and an overconfidence in the global appeal of Australiana which now takes an entirely different, but no less obnoxious, form."
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