Movies
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Perhaps the original chick flick, Love Story is a thinking man’s chick flick. Don’t be scared, there is plenty here to like even if you are a guy. This 1970 movie, and the book, created a major sensation in the early seventies. The real star of this movie is the script by Erich Segal, who
The Big Doll House (1971) is a shocking, semi-documentary, historically accurate look at the prison system of the Philippines. It has been studied by corrections professionals worldwide. This is the kind of thing you get on Turner Classic Movies’ late Friday night/early Saturday morning TCM Underground. In other words, some real tasty drive-in theater trash.
Here is a secret agent decoder ring for The Limits of Control (2009), directed by Jim Jarmusch. Clearly, this is a dirty and thankless job. You see, a review of metacritc.com, regular critics, and regular folks, alike, on IMDb, gives the distinct impression that no one understood what they were looking at in The Limits
Far from Heaven (2002) is as close to hell as heaven, and fifties melodrama, allows (and that is saying something). Norman Rockwell comes to mind. On acid, that is. It had me retching from the baby blue opening title sequence to the schmaltzy autumnal patterns in the closing credits. I rarely watch bad movies because
The Troll Inc. (2017) documentary is a window for normies into the world of a hacker and his know-how which forms the underbelly of this modern troll. There is nothing like a really good documentary film on an intriguing subject matter that one is not very familiar with, but, nonetheless, is interested in. Troll Inc.
The Colonia movie brings to life Chile’s sometimes sinister past, including alleged Nazi associations that were explored in Hunting Hitler. For anyone who watched the History television series Hunting Hitler, the Colonia movie is highly recommended. This 2015 film brings to life the creepy Colonia Dignidad, with its alleged, murky Nazi connections, which were so intriguing at the
The Almost Mercy movie is a very dark comedy with even darker social commentary. I was surprised to find this movie being listed in the horror genre. Or maybe I just have a sick sense of humor. Regardless, this movie had me laughing out loud at numerous points. The Almost Mercy movie is told from
