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Pulp Fiction (1994)::rating::5
Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece bears the off-kilter zeal of a crazed saucier–the kind of Creole kitchen-dweller who uses two teaspoons of Marsala for the recipe, then drinks the rest straight from the bottle.  From Akira Kurosawa to Arthur Penn, from Buddy Holly’s rock nerdery to James Dean’s leather-jacket cool—just about any pertinent pop culture reference gets…
September 13, 20180Comments
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Good Ol’ Freda (2013)::rating::3.5
Rock history is replete with well-intentioned superstars who chose to people their inner circle with blood-sucking sycophants.  Elvis had his Memphis Mafia, a nasty little cadre of shitkickers who strip-mined Presley’s well-known generosity and contributed heavily to his emotional and physical disintegration.  And though possessed of a greater sense of savvy, the Beatles were no less vulnerable…
September 13, 20181Comment
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Vertigo (1958)::rating::0
  Vertigo is an odd, elliptical masterpiece that manages to somehow embody Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic eccentricities and yet stand apart from the rest of his sprawling filmography.  It covers his familiar terrain of obsession and death (and his fetish for platinum blondes with icy dispositions) but is defined and distinguished by a melancholic fog that hangs densely…
September 13, 20180Comments
Laughable
Terror in Beverly Hills (1989)::rating::0
  No sense in dancing around it:  This movie sucks deep-fried donkeys.  The cinematography makes the Zapruder film look like Trip to Bountiful.  The monotonic soundtrack conjures the image of a twitching Pomeranian in fitful sleep atop a Casio keyboard.    The performances, the editing, and the writing—they all land in the weeds, too.  Even the clouds…
September 11, 20180Comments
Laughable
Plan 9 From Outer Space::rating::0
  Plan 9 occupies such rarified air atop the summit of bad cinema that to analyze it represents an intimidating prospect.  It is, in fact, an anomalous presence in movie history—a richly textured masterpiece of aggressive incompetence that somehow manages to be laughable and poignant, lazy yet strangely ambitious. Its auteur, Ed Wood, styled himself as a sci-fi…
August 1, 20182Comments

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