 | | | Christian Bale as the slick, sick Wall Street player who doubles as serial killer, putting away people who annoy him and the women with whom he has loveless sexual encounters. Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe and Reese Witherspoon ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Takashi Mike Starring Renji Ishibashi, Ryo Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda, Eihi Shiina. A producer whose wife died seven years earlier longs for a companion and mother to his child, so he holds an audition for a mate. One of the appl... (See full description) |
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 | | | Memorable critique of Hollywood's warped dream factory… a melancholic and mysterious psychodrama adapted from Clifford Odets's play. High contast B&W cinematography adds punch to this jet-dark, cynical movie. When matinee idol Charlie Cas... (See full description) |
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 | | | BANNED FOR TWO YEARS! LEGENDARY DIRECTOR TERUO ISHII’S FINAL DISTURBING MASTERPIECE! "When prolific Japanese Cult Director Teruo Ishii passed away in 2005, BLIND BEAST VS. KILER DWARF (Môjû tai Issunbôshi) became his epitaph. This film st... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Larry Clark. There is no point watching this film except in this unrated form. The R-rated edit just doesn't pack the same punch. Clark seems to be the real deal. KIDS was powerful, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE was superb, and BULL... (See full description) |
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 | | | Harrowing Farrah Fawcett rape-revenge flick. Farrah Fawcett repeats her hit stage role in this gripping drama about a woman who captures a would-be rapist, then must decide... (See full description) |
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 | | | A tale of two movies: FAIL SAFE and DR. STRANGELOVE, both released in 1964, are about an un-ordered American bomber strike on the USSR. The two films are so similar, even in small plot details, that both projects could have started from the... (See full description) |
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 | | | I didn't expect director Peter Weir to ever top YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY so this was a great late career surprise. Most movies I adore are in the "you love 'em or hate 'em" category, and the intensity of cold, frightening beauty here is a... (See full description) |
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 | | | This semi-feminist Euro-trash historical film is notorious for tasteless gore but is a fairly interesting and serious attempt at telling this true story. "The controversial Euro-cult classic finally comes to DVD in this exciting re-master... (See full description) |
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 | | | There is nothing like FLESH+BLOOD. It's a big-budget, gorgeous looking historical epic with major stars, but made with the lurid sensibilities of a sleazy Italian exploitation movie. Paul Verhoeven has never been shy about sexual nudity (SH... (See full description) |
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 | | | David Mamet's finest play becomes one of the truly great American films thanks to the fact that Mamet didn't direct it. Mamet's own directorial style is so quirky and mannered that it always interferes with his quirky, mannered writing, but... (See full description) |
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 | | | This is not directed by Larry Clark, but it’s written and directed by KIDS screenwriter Harmony Korine, and deals with the same subjects, so it makes sense to categorize it with Clark. Plotless, dream/nightmare excursion through the lives o... (See full description) |
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 | | | This stark story of a theocratic America was a far-fetched cautionary tale in 1990, but now plays like a documentary. In a near future when a buildup of toxic chemicals has made most women sterile, part of the US secedes to form a nut-right... (See full description) |
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 | | | "Turn it off! TURN IT OFF!" That famous sound bite is, of course, devoutly religious father Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) hollering at a man projecting a porn loop starring his daughter. Writer and director Schrader revisited themes from ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Robert Harmon. Effective horror thriller. A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Rutger Hauer... (See full description) |
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 | | | Highly recommended! A great film, IMO, andthe apogee of crime exploitation films. Sleazy, creepy and eerily realistic luminous B&W film based upon the true story of American serial killers pretty-boy Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) and ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus). Intensely controversial film that garnered both condemnation and several awards at Cannes. Certainly one of the most accomplished of the recent wave of French 'serious' films with brief hardcore... (See full description) |
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| | Directed by Meir Zarchi. This haunting, disturbing movie with (primitive) feminist overtones is one of the finest exploitation films ever made. "This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition... but no jur... (See full description) |
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 | | | Arresting debut film from photographer Larry Clark paints a chilling portrait of amoral New York youth. Leo Fitzgerald plays a Manhattan boy on a mission to deflower as many virgins as possible. He is also HIV positive, which lends brutal i... (See full description) |
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 | | | First and best film version of Thomas Harris' book RED DRAGON, the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter. (The second filming, RED DRAGON is a bit more faithful to the book but an inferior movie.) Michael Mann is an under-rated guy because ... (See full description) |
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