Raw, unrelenting, and heartbreaking. Amitabh Bachchan is incendiary in this. What a picture.
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The War in Space 1977
Dis a good rainy day movie. Also extremely influential on Hideaki Anno's work. Jun Fukuda always comes through with the cash.
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
As I mentioned previously, the first film is basically my trans cinema canon, whatever the Hell that means amongst letterboxd/film twitter/trans cinephiles circles. As a friend of mine put it, James Cameron basically makes movies for people who read “Edgar Rice Burrough's paperback so much the Frazetta cover fell off.” Watching these movies back to back feels like going to the used paperback store in my hometown and finding a series of beaten SF paperbacks, written circa mid 90s, and…
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Judgment Night 1993
Another good One Long Night movie. Cast bringing their A game and Chicago being shot like, as Ebert described NYC in his Death Wish review, a post apocalyptic wasteland is aces.
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man 1991
"Gotta squeeze the trigger, Harley. Don't yank it, it's not your dick."
A nice meat and potatoes actioner you'd catch late one night on cable.
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Running Scared 1986
Criminally overlooked buddy cop comedy featuring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines just goofing off. Perfect Winter movie.
Also that opening theme song by Fee Waybill shreds.
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