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COCKFIGHTER
A score of decrepit illiterates forms a circle to bet on fighting animals. Though easily mistaken for a meeting of the Mississippi state senate, this is where you fleece hapless yokels of their moonshine money. The low life has it’s allure, and this is as low as it gets.
April 22, 2009
DODES’KA-DEN
This film has been referred to as 'minor Kurosawa', and if those two terms ever belonged together , then I ...
April 19, 2009
OUR MAN IN HAVANA
Intelligence services for any nation have in common an innate need for secrecy regarding their actions and a defensive posture ...
April 5, 2009
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (SEVEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT…)
1. Gene Hackman
Yeah, buddy, I’ll see your Popeye Doyle and raise you a Rupert Anderson. And here’s a Little Bill ...
February 20, 2009
SIMON OF THE DESERT
Leave it to Bunuel to craft a film depicting lunacy in crystalline form that manages to both indict religion in ...
February 18, 2009
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
A drama about a convicted murderer being released from prison and attempting to find her place in an alien world described as ‘light’
February 3, 2009
CLASH OF THE TITANS (SEVEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT…)
Few things are as priceless as the sea-swept looks of orgasmic awe on Poseidon’s face when he lets loose the Kraken on Zeus’ orders…
January 31, 2009