It’s taken seventeen years, but Logan gives us the Wolverine we’ve always wanted. Continue reading...
Logan 2017
Directed by James Mangold. Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, and Boyd Holbrook.
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Friday the 13th Part III 1982
Directed by Steve Miner. Starring Dana Kimmell, Tracie Savage, Richard Brooker, and Terry Ballard.
Picks up where Part 2 ends. Another group of teens head to another lakeside cabin where an increasingly indestructible Jason slaughters them. Along the way, Jason picks up his iconic hockey mask. Continue reading...
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The Guilty Generation 1931
Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Starring Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings, Robert Young, and Boris Karloff.
Constance Cummings and Robert Young play lovers caught between their warring mobster fathers, played by Leo Carrillo and Boris Karloff. Continue reading...
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The Range Feud 1931
Directed by D. Ross Lederman. Starring Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming, and Edward LeSaint.
John Wayne and Susan Fleming play lovers caught between two feuding ranchers. Lead Buck Jones plays the horseshoe-bedazzled-shirt-wearing sheriff determined to prove Wayne innocent of murder. Spoiler, there’s a third party at play.
Wayne’s fine but this is Jones’s movie, and he does a serviceable job as a square-jawed lawman. But even at sixty-four minutes this felt overlong, with lots of filler and establishing shots.
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StageFright 1987
Directed by Michele Soavi. Starring David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti, Domenico Fiore, and Robert Gligorov.
Michele Soavi’s directorial debut. Dario Argento’s former assistant director showcases ample formal rigor in service of a clumsy script that sees an escaped psychopath terrorize a theater troupe. Continue reading...
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In Fabric 2018
Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, and Steve Oram.
Take a large scoop of creepy David Lynchian atmosphere. Slice with daggers of black humor. Mix in an increasing amount of Terry Gilliamesque absurdist surrealism. Spice with a Dario Argentoesque visual aesthetic. Bring to a boil. Continue reading...
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One Cut of the Dead 2017
Directed by Shin'ichirô Ueda. Starring Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, and Kazuaki Nagaya.
Give it a chance. It offers more than the first thirty minutes suggest. Saying more invites spoilers. Continue reading...
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Train to Busan 2016
Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Starring Gong Yoo, Yu-mi Jung, Ma Dong-seok, and Su-an Kim.
A good zombie movie leaden with heavy-handed melodrama. Continue reading...
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X-Men: Apocalypse 2016
Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult.
Crams three movies’ worth of plot into a bloated two-and-a-half-hour-long slog devoid of emotional stakes. Also, the 1983 setting means both James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender’s characters should be pushing fifty.
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The Young Stranger 1957
Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly, and James Gregory.
John Frankenheimer’s feature debut. James MacArthur plays the smart-aleck son of a big-shot Hollywood producer. After a run in with a theater-manager lands him in the local police station, he’s frustrated his father won’t believe his side of the story. Continue reading...
