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"I hired a demon to help me steal the throne and then betrayed him and he's out for revenge" should have been 90% of this movie, not 18%. Like, maybe they could have cut out one of the dozen scenes where someone ends up in the dungeon/jail?

LOL, there are a lot of jail scenes, aren't there? I laughed when we but my average reaction to them was, "they're in jail again?"

One of Pyun's last movies was an unofficial sequel to Streets of Fire. In a perfect world, someone would direct The Sword and the Sorcerer 2: We Bought a Xusia.

Like, it's not a terrible running joke that most of the movie is all the male protagonists rotating in and out of the jail, but there was just so much talking about stuff that never happened.

And the animated spin-off, Xu-topia.

Blow Out, 1981

Jack (John Travolta) is a sound expert working on a slasher film who, out capturing sound samples one night, records audio of a car crash that kills a man. Jack is able to rescue a woman who was in the car, sex worker Sally (Nancy Allen), and the two are further thrown together when Jack realizes that his audio recording implies that the car crash was no accident. Coming up against a political conspiracy and the ruthless fixer (John Lithgow) employed to see it through, Jack and Sally find themselves in danger at every turn.

Intriguing in the way that it seems almost at war with itself, this is a compelling if problematic conspiracy thriller.



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Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

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Midway - (1976)

Up until the advent of CGI, it was much easier to film land battles than air or sea ones, and Midway had to be content with using actual footage of naval/aerial warfare in the Pacific theatre. I recently watched Overlord (1975), which did the same thing - mixing in real footage with that taken for the movie. Otherwise this film works best when confined to the Japanese admirals and brass (Toshiro Mifune, James Shigeta & Pat Morita) kind of acknowledging how damned risky their attack on Midway is, and then sweating their own decisions at probably the most crucial moment of the war as far as Japan was concerned. Risking and losing too much. Was it luck? Or was it the fact that the Americans were better at figuring out what the other side was up to? Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson and Robert Wagner - it's stuffed with stars, but neither this nor the Roland Emmerich version in 2019 could make much of a cinematic gem from this crushing victory America had over the Japanese in 1942.

6/10


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Texas Across the River - (1966)

Dean Martin and Alain Delon in a film together? I had to see this. I thought it'd be fun at the very least, but it was a little too much of a "muck around" movie for my taste. Nobody takes anything seriously, and for some reason Delon is playing a Spanish guy instead of a French one? I don't know. Not much in this made much sense, with impromptu bull fights and Joey Bishop in brownface as a Native American - all of whom get pretty rough treatment inasmuch as they're made to look ridiculous. It's absolutely silly for the most part, with Delon's Don Andrea killing a wedding crasher (in self defense) which has him pursued by some Union cavalry out for vengeance and justice. Martin plays a cowboy who hooks up with him and spars with him when they're not getting along - Delon getting to kiss Martin and slap him numerous times, in a couple of the movie's best running gags. I like comedy, but this was too loose and not very palatable.

4/10


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Hyenas - (1992)

Based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit, about a wealthy, powerful woman's return to the town she grew up in, and the power her promises now have to spill blood. All-up, the coming together of context and original narrative here makes up something pretty special, and this is one of the best African films I've ever seen - it works as a film of gravity, vision and poetry. Full review here, in my watchlist thread.

9/10

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Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968)



Very smart, mature and intelligent thriller. Nothing is overstated or spelled out to to the viewer unnecessarily. Dark, gritty, realistic, all while capturing San Francisco superbly. Also really liked Yates' The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which I watched the other week.

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Never Let Go (2024)

Is the third Twilight Zone esque something's in the woods or is it horror film I've seen this year. It stars Hallie Berry as a mother of two young boys who are twins... As she lives in this strange cabin in the woods where for her family to survive they must stay tethered to the sacred house the whole time.

The film does a decent job building the mythology and the trailers do an excellent job hiding the main theme of the story...which I will not spoil. To be frank the film is a soft R when it needed to be a hard R like Anti-Christ to really hit the messages and themes home. Not to say it's a bad film..it's a pretty good one. The story is incredibly solid the third act is very good filled with twists and scenes that the pulp fan in me enjoyed.

Alexendre Aja is a fine filmmaker...the film isn't dark to the point where nothing can be seen which is a common issue with modern films. However the actual cinematography, sound design, and effects could have used a better touch. If this was a streaming movie I think people would enjoy it better but it's not really worth a trip to the theater.