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Favorite films

  • Easy Rider
  • Manhunter
  • Risky Business
  • Five Easy Pieces

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  • The Boys from Brazil

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  • Kiss Me, Stupid

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  • Waterloo

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  • One, Two, Three

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  • Near Dark

    Near Dark

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    "It's finger lickin' good."

    "Near Dark" is a near perfect slice of Southern fried mayhem. A blood-soaked neo-western featuring a marauding band of filthy, leprous vampires decked out in dust jackets and spurs. They are highwaymen of a bygone century living a myopic, desperate existence on fringes of society. There's a Manson-esque presence to the "family" that's guided by the centuries old Jesse Hooker (Lance Henriksen). They're brutal and unforgiving as they drift from town to town feeding upon the…

  • Manhunter

    Manhunter

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    β€œManhunter” is my favourite film of all time and it’s the film that changed my life.


    This review is filled with spoilers and it's going to go deep into my lore. I figured I needed to give the appropriate history as to why this film means so much to me. So, if you’re even remotely interested, kick back and allow me to stroll down memory lane for posterity sake.


    So, for the majority of my life I was never really…

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  • The Fly

    The Fly

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    "I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake." - This might be the most poetic, deeply tragic sentence ever uttered on screen!

    "The Fly" is a flat out masterpiece and it's easily Cronenberg's crowning achievement. This is the film where everything clicked into place. His trademark body horror features some of the most incredibly disturbing, goopy effects ever put to film. I found myself deeply disturbed…

  • The Gruesome Twosome

    The Gruesome Twosome

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    This is a film about how a vile family breeds terror, hopelessness and contempt as it slowly sucks the life out its community through perceived benignity, Machiavellian deceit and sheer moral abolition; and here I thought this was going to be a documentary about Joel and Avram Glazer...

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  • Charade

    Charade

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    "Charade" is the most Hitchcockian Hitchcock that Hitchcock never Hitchcocked.

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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    I think it goes without saying amongst fellow film aficionados that we all love films, especially the great ones. However, through years of watching films I've noticed that there seems to be that one film which is hugely popular, yet when you sit down to watch it you can't understand why it's held in such high esteem. For me it's only happened a couple of times, but I unfortunately have to add "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" to the…