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  • Hard to Be a God
  • Harakiri
  • Children of the Revolution
  • Vampire's Kiss

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  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

    ★★★

  • Fleshtone

    ★★

  • The Bedroom Window

    ★★

  • Dune

    ★★★★½

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  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

    Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

    ★★★

    A cute broad proto-Mad Men farce, but I was hoping it would get more gonzo. One of the most 50s movies I’ve seen. I’m not a big technicolor guy but this looks reasonably good and needed color to work.

  • Fleshtone

    Fleshtone

    ★★

    The beginning has a weird vibe but it fades into standard drab 90s cable mantasy. Spandau Ballet bassist is semi-nude a lot and hops around while painting. His bartender best friend is a character that saturated TV depictions of LA when I was a kid and made me resolve never to move to California (campy misogynists in colorful shirts). I enjoyed the opening credit “based on an idea by (the writer and one other guy)”. There are basically no ideas in this film so I am really wondering what that other guy contributed??

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  • Top Gun: Maverick

    Top Gun: Maverick

    I’m getting on my highest fun-hating horse and asking y’all to consider knocking a star or two off your reviews for this movie. I'm asking you to consider the real costs of Top Gun Maverick. It cost the producers $170 million, which they’ve now recouped twice over. It cost US taxpayers $753 billion in 2021. Thousands of civilians in a dozen countries killed as “collateral” in US airstrikes. 176,000 total dead in the Afghanistan war, including 46,000 civilians, and 24,000…

  • The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man

    ★★★★

    The kids these days with their social networks and their raucous folk music and their maypoles and their sex party in the grass.