While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.
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Repo Man (1984)
I must confess I spent a significant portion of this movie’s runtime bewildered.
(Note: There’s an updated and expanded review for this film. Read it here.)
Zombies (stylized Z-O-M-B-I-E-S like a pep cheer) is an utterly bizarre, big-budget (for TV) romantic musical about humans and zombies co-mingling, set in a garish, pastel-colored parody of high school.
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Spontaneous (2020)
Spontaneous is a movie that flits in and out of greatness as quickly as its characters pop like balloons.
As someone who recently fell in love with a semi-coherent documentary of old film footage soundtracked to voiceover ramblings, you’d think this one in the same genre might also do it for me.
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Scream 4 (2011)
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Scream 3 (2000)
The Scream series hits its inevitable “diminishing returns” phase in its third installment, an obvious step down from the first two.
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Scream 2 (1997)
Everything about Scream 2 indicates a rush sequel job to the massive success of Scream, but it works, almost miraculously.
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Scream (1996)
It’s 2021, so the “slasher, but meta” does not feel nearly as fresh and as clever as I’m sure it might have 25 years ago
First, if you are expecting an adaptation with even a glimmer of fidelity to the source story, you will be disappointed.