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Frank's Movie Log

My life at the movies.

  1. Logan 2017

    B: 4 stars (out of 5)

    Directed by James Mangold. Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, and Boyd Holbrook.

    It’s taken seventeen years, but Logan gives us the Wolverine we’ve always wanted. Continue reading...

    Watched on
    13 Mar 2021
  2. Friday the 13th Part III 1982

    C-: 2.5 stars (out of 5)

    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...

    Watched on
    12 Mar 2021
  3. The Guilty Generation 1931

    C: 3 stars (out of 5)

    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...

    Watched on
    12 Mar 2021
  4. The Range Feud 1931

    D+: 2 stars (out of 5)

    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.

    Watched on
    12 Mar 2021
  5. StageFright 1987

    C: 3 stars (out of 5)

    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...

    Watched on
    11 Mar 2021
  6. In Fabric 2018

    B: 4 stars (out of 5)

    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...

    Watched on
    10 Mar 2021
  7. One Cut of the Dead 2017

    B-: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

    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...

    Watched on
    09 Mar 2021
  8. Train to Busan 2016

    C-: 2.5 stars (out of 5)

    Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, and Su-an Kim.

    A good zombie movie leaden with heavy-handed melodrama. Continue reading...

    Watched on
    08 Mar 2021
  9. X-Men: Apocalypse 2016

    F: 1 star (out of 5)

    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.

    Watched on
    06 Mar 2021
  10. The Young Stranger 1957

    C: 3 stars (out of 5)

    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...

    Watched on
    05 Mar 2021

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