I think I might be emphasizing directors here a little too much, but they are an easy place to start.
Guilty Pleasure Movies, part 3: Frank Henenlotter
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Guilty Please Movies, part 2: Ken Russell
Who the fuck is Ken Russell? I know the name and I’ve seen some of his huge filmography, but he has also always remained an elusive figure to me. I have never seen that many of his films and there doesn’t seem to be a real throughline in the ones that I have seen. Except that they are all weird.
Guilty Pleasure Movies, part 1: Jean Rollin
I will start with an admission: I have seen quite a few of his movies, but I remember them in a weird haze where I’m not sure what is from what movie, so I won’t discuss specific movies very much.
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Intro
This is something I have been thinking about for a while now, so instead of planning this any further, I just decided to do this. The point being that I am going to write a series of posts about movies, directors and related concepts that might be considered guilty pleasures.
The Long Walk Is a Great Depiction of Out Times
…although the novel was published in 1979.
Spoilers, but I’ll warn you before I get there. There’s actually so much I want to talk about there, but I’m hoping not to be too long-winded.
Reviewing the New Toxic Avenger
It took two years to get this out to theaters. That’s weird. Although, it was kind of a dud. Still, I do think it’s worth talking about.
Movie Classics Class of 2025
In Finland cars are considered classics if they are at least 25 years old. Following that same rule, I have arbitrarily decided that a movie needs to be of a same age to qualify as a classic. However, not all movies of that age are classics.
Interesting Depictions of Magic in Movies
Since in some of these the magic is the movie, I can’t really avoid spoilers, so I’m not going to.
Weapons Has a Great Structure
Maybe this is just a problem with trailers in particular, but the trailer for this movie didn’t really sell me on it. Sure, there’s a mystery, but the mystery didn’t seem very intriguing in the way it was presented. It felt like the movie would focus on a different thing, but after this got 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, I thought I have to see this. It did help that it’s directed by the guy who did Barbarian.
I Have Finally Seen All the Movies on the Sight & Sound Critics’ Poll of 2022
That’s 264 movies. I have seen quite a few before I started this almost three years ago when the list was published, but since many of the movies are not readily available, it took me this long to see them all.