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Thursday, June 12, 2014

June 2014

June 2014

The Witchmaker (Brown, 1969)|||||3.5
* Solaris (Soderbergh, 2002)|||||5.5
Starman (Carpenter, 1984)|||||6
Climates (Ceylan, 2006)|||||5.5
The Day He Arrives (Hong, 2011)|||||7
Oldboy (Lee, 2013)|||||4
Battle Beyond the Stars (Murakami, 1980)|||||4.5
Black Hawk Down (Scott, 2001)|||||4.5
Accident (Losey, 1967)|||||6
Transformers: The Premake (Lee, 2014) (short)|||||++
Oasis of the Zombies (Franco, 1982)|||||2.5
A throwaway horror movie involves the African theater of WWII... the rest of the film a Saharan zombie film... Franco's narcoleptic "style" is at a low, very low bar here but the desert locale and Arab portrait make the non-style sort of a style, lulling us with something of a fascinating success in constructive cross-purposes: Z-schlock and occasionally sensual travelogue, a fitful time-burner in both capacities, especially together.
Hahaha (Hong, 2010)|||||7
Dredd (Travis, 2012)|||||4.5
Short Term 12 (Cretton, 2013)|||||5
La Captive (Akerman, 2000)|||||7.5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986)|||||4.5
Detention (Kahn, 2012)|||||4.5
A Fellinian abundance, or fatuous pop puerility?  You decide.
A Talking Picture (Oliveira, 2003)|||||7.5
The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011)|||||4
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Singer, 2014)|||||5
Malifacent (Stromberg, 2014)|||||3
This was such utter balhooey.