Well, this just completely came out of left field and blew me away. There are some people who seenm to regard this as a somewhat underapreciated final effort by the great late Master of Suspese but this might be one of cinemas true hidden gems, a glorious exercise in style and sleeze, a morality tale as dark as it gets and an ongoing source of inspiration for shady thrillers for ages to come. There's a stabbing sequence that rivals the…
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Scanners 1981
Pretty much Cronenberg doing an X-Men movie. If a superhero is in essence an extraordinary individual, then this movie takes it back to basics in order to ask the difficult questions of a) what it means to be extraordinary and b) what it means to be an individual. Needless to say, this get pretty uncomfy but what is especially delightful is how it has no shame in endulging in sensationalist exploitation and camp (exploding heads, melting faces, shootouts, explosions, you…
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Last Action Hero 1993
Ain't no logic like cinema logic. And they say plot don't matter. Pff. Fools.
In the end the main reason I loved this so much is not so much that it is totally hillarious and bonkers ( which it is) but because it is terribly sad and actually maybe one of the saddest action movies ever. It' s utopian view of cinema is not necessarily as some fools paradise, an escapistic place of no worries. The relationship between these two…