Only a month ago that I saw this and I couldn't tell you much about how it ended. So there's limits on how memorable an experience it will give you, in terms of plot, but as a movie with vivid characters and a strong atmosphere this one is aces. It's all about Zora Howard, a talented young playwright who is also an incredibly powerful performer — she co-wrote the movie with director Rashaad Ernesto Greene and also plays Ayanna, the…
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Night of the Comet 1984
Watched with Leah. She liked it — three-stars level. It would have done better if it wasn't wobbly in its plot. Basically, everything hinges on the process by which people become zombies, and for some reason the rules for this (who's turning into a zombie and who isn't) are left obscure, and that decision leaves a lot of unfortunate uncertainty in the second half of the film. But basically the movie looks wonderful and has…
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Collateral 2004
Subgenres of the thriller genre:
1. the thriller as art film, where the artist cannot stoop to actually thrilling his audience
2. the thriller as philosophical rubbernecking, where we are invited to meditate upon the nature of evil — as severed heads roll our way
3. the thriller as pastiche of esoteric pop-culture references
4. the redundant thriller, either a remake of a good thriller or adaptation of a good novel, or both
My highest praise of Collateral is that…