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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990)
More wacky and experimental than its predecessor, Gremlins 2: The New Batch willfully celebrates film references and iconography within an absurd interior space of dysfunctional technology and communi… more →
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 3 months ago: More wacky and experimental than its predecessor, Gremlins 2: The New Batch willfully celebrates fil … more →
Ma 6-T va Crack-er (Richet, 1997)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: What makes the British “Angry Young Man” films of the 1960’s so potent is their du … more →
Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 5 months ago: The oversized burning smily face on the side of a corporate building, characters gazing at the camer … more →
The Game (Fincher, 1997)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 5 months ago: David Fincher structures many of his films around conflicted protagonists at odds with their surroun … more →
Joe Versus the Volcano (Shanley, 1990)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 6 months ago: Long before Office Space, John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano tackled the monotonous … more →
Ashes of Time Redux (Wong, 1994/2008)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 8 months ago: Wong Kar-Wai takes his time revealing the thematic motivations and concerns within Ashes of Time Red … more →
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 8 months ago: Watching Chungking Express some odd years ago I remember dismissing it as overrated, overdone, and o … more →
La Ceremonie (Chabrol, 1995)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 9 months ago: There’s a brilliant moment at the end of Claude Chabrol’s La Ceremonie in which housemai … more →
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 10 months ago: Laura Palmer’s brutal demise begins the great Frost/Lynch television show and ends its maddeni … more →
Bad Influence at the Film of the Month Club
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 11 months ago: I’ve posted an introduction to my pick for January’s FOTMC, Curtis Hanson’s Neo-no … more →
Cure (Kurosawa, 1997)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 11 months ago: Admittedly my first Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Cure is an invigorating introduction for sure. However, be … more →
A Brighter Summer Day: The Director's Cut (Yang, 1991)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: I discovered Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day during my initial exposure to Jonathan Rosenb … more →
Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson’s beautifully eccentric debut feature, hints at the complex connec … more →
Babe: Pig in the City (Miller, 1998)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: I’ve always been fond of the two Babe films, and revisiting the sequel only reinforces why thi … more →
Lorenzo's Oil (Miller, 1992)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: A relentless Hollywood tearjerker, but one that reveals a great deal about George Miller the humanis … more →
Pump Up the Volume (Moyle, 1990)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Released almost two decades ago, Pump Up the Volume still feels incredibly smart, audacious, and enr … more →
Vincent and Theo (Altman, 1990)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Vincent and Theo structures itself around the turbulent personality of Vincent and the repressed vis … more →
Henry Fool (Hartley, 1997)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: I can’t fully wrap my mind around Hartley’s sprawling riff on writing, perception, and c … more →
Irma Vep (Assayas, 1996)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: “But the predators on whom Assayas focuses—all working on the film or in the twilight zone of … more →
