A nice star vehicle for Stallone, with an adorable mix of macho posture, bad jokes and off beat sentimentalism, but very irregular as a film. Ironically enough, this functions rather well as a horror film but performs poorly as action, it relies so much on shameless sleaze and Cosmatos' eye is rarely perceptive enough to find the right rhythm and points of view to the action. That chase sequence is worth the film, however - kind of heartbreaking to wreck…
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A Woman Without Love 1952
I don't know how Buñuel was able to make something this crummy in the same year as one of his greatest masterpieces, 'Subida al Cielo'. This film is so lazily conducted that the already substandard material gets almost unbearable. A weak soap opera of bad acting and untactful melodrama.
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Where Is My Friend's House? 1987
one of the most diligent films ever made, a painstaking coming of age odyssey with an incredibly expansive symbology: everything here is absolutely essential, a boy whose back hurts because he needs to help his father by carrying milk, some brownish red pants, a gust of wind in the backyard, the windows' reflex on the walls... it's all very potent, these signs aren't there for mere narrative development, they address a much bigger spectrum where politics, economics and metaphysics collide.…
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Elvis 2022
Maximalism as utter ineptitude. The most stupid and outrageously disjointed product of our era’s schizophrenic zeitgeist, and a very apt representation of this hollow cultural abundance of formal stimuli, spiced up with a notion of rhythm and speed that could not be more manipulative and misguided. A film made for times of TikTok, Instagram and publicity, for people with a 30 second attention span who never actually felt an image in their lives, going by drenched with information and deprived…
