Easily in my Top 3 favourite John Hughes movies. Charming, sweet, funny and surprising crude. It’s one of those movies that I always that sucked into watching when I’m flipping channels and I come across it on TV. Very likable cast. It hasn’t lost a thing in 30 plus years. Holy shit, 30 years!
This is Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn at the top of their comedic game. This is a very funny movie: funny lines and funny situations. The supporting is just as strong as the leads including a great cameo from Will Ferrell. It’s probably about 20 minutes too long, but it’s a whole lotta fun. Raunchy …
Not the first found footage movie, but it certainly helped launch the phenomenon. I first saw this at an advanced screening, and the crowd was really into it. Tense, scary, low-key. The theatre helped continue to fuel the fear fire by placing rock piles and branch clusters in the lobby and along the sidewalk outside …
Some state troopers fight the local police to solve a crime in order the save their jobs. This is a modern comedy classic. When a managed a video rental outlet, we used to quote this movie endlessly. So many funny, funny lines and scenes. It does lose a little steam towards the end, but the …
Each Halloween movie can be described with two “S” words. Carpenter’s: Suspenseful & Subtle. Zombie’s: Savage & So fucking violent. While the story stays mostly true to the original, the tone does a complete 180 and drops the suspense and adds pure brutal gore. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It helps separate …
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A man goes in for a colonoscopy and due to clerical error he receives the incorrect procedure. During recovery he’s on heavy meds so most of the time he doesn’t know what’s real and what’s not. This is a very twisted film with some cringe-inducing gore. The movie has a very strong Jacob’s Ladder type …
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A hostage situation quickly turns into a fight for survival as everyone must band together to fight a dangerous parasite that is looking for new hosts. Nice, simple story. Parasite shows up and you just go with it. Impressive makeup and special effects. The final creature is a work of art. Gratuitous blood and then …
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A brilliant surgeon kidnaps young women in order to procure their faces in hopes to restore his daughter’s face that was destroyed in a car wreck. Not scary, but definitely creepy. The surgical scene is more graphic than the one in John Woo’s Face/Off even though it’s from 1960 and shot in black and white. …
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An american military outpost take in the lone survivor of a failed cross-country expedition and he relays a story of cannibalism. Pitch black comedy and ferocious violence carry this film from start to finish. Robert Carlyle steals the show with a performance that ranges from gleefully maniacal to refined evil. I saw this at a …
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Wednesday, July 18, 1990. I was there opening night. Spiders in general don’t scare me, but when in large numbers or shown in extreme close-up on a giant screen, they creep me out a bit. It still makes me cringe a little. Pure popcorn entertainment. John Goodman as the extermintor is totally channeling Carl Spackler including …
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