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Explorers (Dante, 1985)
Part fable, part Science Fiction, Joe Dante’s Explorers contains a simplistic and childish worldview, pushing it’s potential weighty material under a mountain of pubescent melodrama. The s… more →
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Explorers (Dante, 1985)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 3 months ago: Part fable, part Science Fiction, Joe Dante’s Explorers contains a simplistic and childish wor … more →
The 'burbs (Dante, 1989)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 3 months ago: Shot on the Universal set that now permanently calls itself Wisteria Lane, Joe Dante’s The … more →
El Norte (Nava, 1983)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: For me, it’s impossible to discuss Gregory Nava’s brilliant El Norte, a sweeping saga of … more →
My Dinner With Andre (Malle, 1981)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: The art of listening has never been more essential than in Louis Malle, Wallace Shawn, and Andre Gre … more →
The Hit (Frears, 1984)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 6 months ago: Before the comedic and weighty social commentaries My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get … more →
The Mosquito Coast (Weir, 1986)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 7 months ago: If anything, Peter Weir’s uneven but ambitious film The Mosquito Coast offers a glaring remind … more →
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 10 months ago: Kubrick’s vision of war, specifically represented in the second half of Full Metal Jacket, com … more →
Absolute Beginners (Temple, 1986)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 11 months ago: I’ve posted a short piece on Julien Temple’s strange and layered musical Absolute Beginn … more →
Happy Holidays!
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 11 months ago: “I’ve got a machine gun. Ho, ho, ho.” So writes a wise man with the blood of a Ger … more →
The Witches of Eastwick (Miller, 1987)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Quite ridiculous, overblown, and displays some of the lamest special effects imaginable. It’s … more →
Twilight Zone: The Movie (Landis, Spielberg, Dante, Miller, 1984)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Thankfully for my purposes, George Miller’s segment “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (a … more →
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (Miller, Ogilvie, 1985)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: George Miller creates a complete stylistic reversal with Beyond Thunderdome, replacing the open and … more →
The Road Warrior (Miller, 1981)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: George Miller moves toward a more mythological and obscure representation of Max in The Road Warrior … more →
Silkwood (Nichols, 1983)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Karen Silkwood was a nuclear power plant employee, potential whistle blower, and union organizer who … more →
The Untouchables (De Palma, 1987)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Aside from Dressed to Kill, The Untouchables is De Palma’s most accomplished and harrowing wor … more →
Cat People (Schrader, 1982)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Whether he’s focusing on eroticized violence or masochistic sexual encounters, Paul Schrader has nev … more →
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: “Therefore let us be happy while we are happy.” - Stated during the epic Toast Scene tow … more →
Border Radio (Anders, Voss, Vent, 1987)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Listening to codirectors Allison Anders and Kurt Voss elequent audio commentary on the Criterion dis … more →
Salaam Bombay! (Nair, 1988)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Chaipau: “Chillum, the sky is spinning. Chillum: “Let the fucker spin!” - Two stre … more →
