Star Trek (Abrams, 2009) 7
Drag Me To Hell (Raimi, 2009) 5
Orca (Anderson, 1977) 3.5
Recommended Reviews: Film Freak Central on Orca
Snatch (Ritchie, 2000) 4
Sleeper (Allen, 1973) 6.5
Love and Death (Allen, 1975) 6
Adventureland (Mottola, 2009) 6
Body Bags (Carpenter & Hooper, 1993) (TV) 4
Irreversible (Noé, 2002) 5.5
The Piano (Campion, 1993) 9
Best demystification of hoop skirts ever.
Shocker (Craven, 1989) 3.5
Wes Craven is the showman of the horror auteurs. He's modish and trendy and he shows it in his horror films. He's also a goofball, though, and a sucker for novelty, and that shows most explicitly in Shocker. Mitch Pileggi, a face known to any X-Files fan, tries valiantly to be the next Freddy Krueger, rolling off one-liners in mid-slaughter. It would all be just dull if the film didn't benefit from Craven's dream logic-inspired, sight gag-inclined knack at inanity. The otherworldly presence of the dead girlfriend, who seems to appear with the alternating and counter-productive purposes of either assisting, turning on, or fruitlessly freaking the hell out the film's hero, is one of the film's stranger plot elements, in a film full of strange plot elements. This includes the entire high school football team helping out foil the killer's plot, and a lecherous psychopath body-jumping into a six-year-old girl. Amusing, but pointless.
Splinter (Wilkins, 2008) 5.5
JLG/JLG (Godard, 199 ) 6.5
Nouvelle Vague (Godard, 1990) 7.5
Passion (2nd) (Godard, 1985) 7
* War of the Worlds (Spielberg, 2005) 4.5
