Saturday, October 10, 2020
Shanty Tramp (1967)
On a hot night in Dixie, the local shanty tramp heads out for adventure and leaves disaster in her wake.
Absolute
sleazy smalltown exploitation drama with a superficial anti-racist
message is mainly remarkable for its dark, nihilist view of rural
Americana with no hope for redemption.
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Friday, October 9, 2020
Emma. (2020)
In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
This is a solid, lively and entertaining adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, maybe not the best, but it has great performances and excellent period detail.
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
First Lines: Charles Stross - Rule 34
It's a slow Tuesday afternoon, and you're coming to the end of your shift on the West End control desk when Sergeant McDoudall IMs you: INSPECTOR WANTED ON FATACC SCENE.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Spring Night Summer Night (1967)
The eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.
Intense, realistic smalltown melodrama is fascinatingly offers poetic cinematography and convincing amateur performances.
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The Fall (2019)
A masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man.
Dark, nightmarish short excellently serves as warning against present-day fascism.
Unsolved Mysteries (2020)
Immersive, character-driven stories are rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable. Families, detectives and journalists hope viewers hold the clues to solving these mysteries.
Well-produced. good selection of not yet resolved crimes and occurrences gives both victims and their families/friends equal room as well as the investigators, although the UFO episode somehow falls a bit out of line within the series.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
Despite presenting a new angle to the classic tale this lively and action-packed version smothers any originality below its inept urge to entertain.
Monday, October 5, 2020
Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)
Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.
Interesting insight into the (quite obnoxious) character of one of the most outstanding and influential rock music drummers, although it never questions his overrated and self-proclaimed genius on the instrument.
