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Lean mean genre films are definitely my jam | Contributor to @SpectrumCulture @Polygon | Addicted to Hong Kong action and SOV splatter
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Event Horizon gets all the attention for being the 90s’ Gothic haunted house in space but Memories’ MAGNETIC ROSE already did that two years earlier and lightyears better
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I’ve seen almost 400 kung-fu and wuxia movies over the past three years, so when I say I’ve never seen a fight like this before, it’s not hyperbole
(Drunken Dragon/Exciting Dragon - dir. Chiu Chung-Hing, 1985)
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Honestly the modern gold standard for how to create something new from franchise nostalgia. Repeating one of the original’s most iconic lines but using it to set-up a completely new moment that’s electric and iconic by its own merits is simply genius
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John Wick 4’s god’s-eye gunfight has been called the “Hotline Miami” scene but I was surprised to see Chad name an even more obscure indie game as inspiration
HONG KONG MASSACRE is Hotline Miami x John Woo, and JW4 beautifully adopts its top-down look & gargantuan muzzle flashes
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Any ten seconds of Hard Boiled action is cooler than some entire movies
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Still one of the most electric holy-shit-what-is-this-movie moment of its decade
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“Fuck them kids” cinema: supernatural wuxia edition
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Remember when Chris Evans was in movies like Sunshine and Snowpiercer
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Nearly 20 years since Spider-Man 2 and despite the rare exceptions, action in the superhero genre feels like it’s gone backwards compared to the energy, style, and character-first stakes of Raimi’s set-pieces
How can a filmmaker have this much fucking juice.
I feel like I'm 6 years old again, obsessively rewatching this bit.
No one does it like Raimi.
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As long as Tubi remains the digital equivalent of a ‘90s video store packed with weird, obscure, cult gems, I’ll be happy. Pound-for-pound the best streaming catalog around
"Tubi is now watched as much as a top 5 cable network"
Wild.
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Says a lot about how captivatingly intense Hartnett is his role that this is one of the conversations that most stuck with me since my first watch of Oppenheimer
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Rewatched this masterpiece after going through Shiraishi’s other found footage/faux-doc films since my first watch, and jfc it’s crazy how this moment generates so much unease and chills from just a freeze frame, zoom, and text
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The action-reaction rhythm and occult procedural logic behind mystic duels in Magic Cop are so refreshing; sequences like this are familiar to anyone who’s seen a HK black magic film but the matter-of-factness still feels unique and fascinating
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Is King Kong ‘05 incredibly long and indulgent (which I exacerbated by finally watching the Extended cut)? Absolutely but I love it all the same. Peter Jackson pours every ounce of reverence, horror roots, and blockbuster flair into a 3-hr blank check, and it shows in every frame
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What a cinematic flex by Spielberg and Kaminski this film is; the virtuoso cinematography of Munich turns the director’s predilection for mirrors and oners into an exacting exhibition of craft
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Pairing the director of The Rocketeer with Captain America is legit one of the smartest pipe-dream-made-real decisions in recent movie history. Nowadays Marvel doing that is practically inconceivable. The days of genre vets and journeymen getting to play with IP seem long gone
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You’ve seen Hu with a shotgun. You’ve seen Hobo With A Shotgun. Now, here’s Hulk with a shotgun
(Badland Hunters, 2024)
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The way Koji Shiraishi adapts low-budget effects into spectral otherworldliness in CULT is masterful. Occult, the Senritsu Kaiki File series, and Cult all portray their spirits similarly, but he perfects the approach here. Jarring CG aberrance given alien form and presence
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And the year before that, Keita Amemiya made Cyber Ninja. 80 action-packed minutes of pagoda railguns, robo-toku-samurai, and other assorted batshit creativity that captures the imagination-sparking cool of Namco arcade art
In 1989 Kiyoshi Kurosawa made the movie 'Sweet Home' based on an NES game, and it absolutely rips, so by my calculations they're about 34 years too late. Guarantee that TLOS won't have effects as rad as this either
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It goes without saying, but man the John Wick films just keep getting more sumptuous with each entry
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You people were WAY too hard on this movie
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Smaller and less explosive than most iconic movie shootouts, but the finale of A Colt Is My Passport has to be up there
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Just thinking about how Warner Bros gave James Wan $40 MILLION to make the most expensive version of a ‘90s DTV back-shelf-VHS Henenlotter giallo and then marketed their unholy unhinged creation to unsuspecting audience like it was another Insidious-like
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Goddamn, I was not expecting the sword duels at the end of Polanksi’s Macbeth to go so fucking hard
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Way of the Gun-mode McQuarrie and Collateral-mode Cruise with a post-MI blank check? Yeah I want to see that
Christopher McQuarrie confirms that his R-Rated “gnarly, violent” Tom Cruise original film will happen after ‘M:I —Dead Reckoning Part Two’ has been completed.
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The swiftest three hours ever. So glad RRR was my introduction to India’s superheroic-bloodshed historical epics. Gloriously sincere fraternal melodrama, operatic battle-brothers and gunplay that would make John Woo proud, mythic slow-mo action that Hollywood could only dream of
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Holy shit, I have to interrupt your night to spread the good word of Terrified/Aterrados. Cosmic horror Argentinian Poltergeist of sorts that evokes Carpenter, Gordon, Wan; Demián Rugna crafts a breakneck cinematic darkride of gleefully creepy jump scares & spinetingling suspense
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The sheer jolt of giddy delight I felt in the theater while witnessing an Ip Man punch barrage and a Donnie Yen wind-up back to back in a John Wick film
i’m glad john wick 4 is on digital because i have thought about this moment every day since march
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All the over-the-top spectacle in RRR gets praised and GIF’d and whatnot, but this bit of neat choreography and impactful editing stood out during my rewatch
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I knew I was watching a masterpiece when this was literally minute one of Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
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Actually I felt Snyder topped himself in portraying superspeed with this moment and the time reversal climax in JL
10 years later and still the best cinematic portrayal of superspeed
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That physicality, screen presence, and swagger is just never going to be matched in another superhero movie, huh?
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Favourite use of fire in film
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Peak “fuck them kids” cinema
Hong Kong Cinema keeps proving me every time that they don't give a fuck about them kids 😂😂😂
"Century Of The Dragon(1999)" Video comparison on the HD transfer vs the DVD.
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Friedkin’s First Blood rules y’all. The Hunted is a film I rarely see discussed or praised, and I had forgotten just how stark, elemental, and razor-edge focused it is as a relentless chase thriller. Pointedly thematic, but always driven by momentum first and foremost
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Injury-food cuts might be just the best cinematic technique
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Rewatched Doctor Sleep (finally the Director’s Cut; even better) and it can’t be praised enough how Flanagan nails that Stephen King literary sprawl, and captures the sense of a fleshed-out saga usually reversed for TV, in a 3-hour film. Itching for a Midnight Mass revisit now
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The entire final half hour of Ong Bak 2 but especially Tony Jaa going to town with the three-section staff
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Doing an Alex Garland refresher before Civil War, and while Men didnt do it for me at all, it sure was a pleasure revisiting DREDD. Gloriously lean survive-the-(mega)block carnage soaked in blood & future-grime; a action freight-train as no-nonsense as its titular force of nature
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Never understood the middling-to-outright-dislike consensus for M:I:3. Seems I severely underrated it last time too. From the Germany rescue, to the Vatican mission and subsequent bridge chaos, to the Shanghai building swing, just a very satisfying slice of ‘00s entertainment
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Is this the most beautiful action shot of ‘90s wuxia?
Anyway, finally
#rewatched
New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and it indeed still slaps
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Sanada been that awesome for decades. He was doing bus stunts before Jackie
(Roaring Fire, 1982)
Hiroyuki Sanada says he did all of the fighting, horse riding & stunts by himself in ‘SHOGUN’.
(Source: )
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Watched The Last of The Mohicans for the first time the other night and it was sad to be reminded that Hollywood-budget period epic sequences like this, with hundreds of extras & naturally-lit location shooting, rarely happen anymore (even less likely after The Last Duel bombing)
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Perhaps as Tarantino intended, man, does Kill Bill become even more fun once you’ve seen a ton of b-/cult, westerns, kung-fu, samurai films, etc
‘hey that’s Snowblood’ ‘hey that’s Switchblade Sisters’ ‘hey that’s Snowblood again’ hey that’s Death Rides A Horse’ ‘hey, that’s…
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Yoooo…Dev Patel: action star and Brahim Chab’s fight choreography look slick as hell
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How to spot if someone hasn’t actually watched Bollywood action
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Kicking off 2023 with a long-anticipated rewatch, and it still makes me so happy to see the Martial Club crew’s action style coming through loud and clear in a popular studio hit.
Martialclub go all Jackie Chan in their short Supreme Art of War; takes some time to erupt but once it does, this is an impressively complex (and painful!) homage to classic HK action:
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Was pleasant being reminded how much I enjoy The Foreigner. Martin Campbell reinvents Jackie in a way, not unlike his reinventions of Zorro and Bond, distilling the iconic tenacious underdog expressiveness & dynamo physicality into Rambo-esque old soldier intensity.
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Effects by who in what?! Now that’s a combination of words I never expected to see
Awesome creature effects by Tom Savini from Hong Kong horror comedy TILL DEATH DO WE SCARE (Lau Kar-wing, 1982).
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Every post-2005 knife swap in modern action has just been desperately trying (and failing) to top the king
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Every time I revisit Blade Runner 2049, I’m amazed by how perfectly it evolves the look while feeling true to the original. The bustle of Earth’s abandoned scraps, now a shadowy husk. Hollow, drained, battered by the elements, rust-orange rot, advert neon the only flicker of life
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Wes Craven really had an action director’s flair for capturing physicality. All his Scream confrontations and chases have this wonderful sense of scrambling desperate momentum that separate them from slashers’ usual stalk-&-kill approach
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Features the best “Chow Yun-fat with a shotgun” moment in cinema
Released on this day in 1988: TIGER ON BEAT.
Passable buddy cop stuff thanks to a silly Chow Yun-fat but also has marvellous & creative modern action (highlight being the chainsaw duel between Conan Lee and Gordon Liu) from old school, traditional kung fu master Lau Kar-Leung.
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Rewatched Oppenheimer, and it’s still wildly impressive a movie that’s mostly (propulsive, riveting, impeccably-acted) conversations and political backstabbing was such a huge summer blockbuster. Nolan wields the gym speech & Einstein conversation like stomach-churning timebombs
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Can’t recommend Dead & Buried enough. It’s like the best novel Stephen King never wrote and the best episode Twilight Zone/Tales From The Crypt never aired had a nightmare baby. A triumph of spine-tingling dread that perfectly straddles haunting ‘70s horror and grisly ‘80s horror
My favorite kind of horror is often sleepy coastal horror or a guy in a small town slowly losing it because everything is fucked up but him and Jesus Christ, Dead and Buried is among the best of both I’ve ever seen. Just 90 mins of pure dread and one hell of an ending.
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I don’t know how someone could watch Halloween and TCM, and come away with that conclusion
(From Variety’s Halloween Kills review)
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Arguably the greatest 30 seconds in cinematic history
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How to hook an audience with a villain in eight seconds:
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A $90-million, nearly-3-hour super-assassin gun-jitsu actioner featuring Yen, Sanada, Zaror, and Adkins, that started from unassuming mid-budget beginnings of dog vengeance and gangsters. Sometimes I forget how crazy the rise of the John Wick series is
‘JOHN WICK 4’ has a runtime of 2 hours and 49 minutes, the longest film in the franchise ever.
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The proliferation of fast zombies means nowadays we rarely get these tableaus of lumbering rotting inevitability. The creeping suspense of an undead tide on the horizon
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In ASHKAL, a police procedural investigating mysterious immolations becomes entangled in supernatural eeriness and the lingering scars of Tunisia’s dictatorship. Cold, deliberate, and politically charged, like X-Files, True Detective, or Holy Spider by way of K.Kurosawa
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More so than Suspiria, this is my preferred slice of of pure vibes horror. Revisiting The Beyond never feels like watching a film but rather settling into a space where plot ceases to matter and Fulci’s cruel mathematics of occult damnation ooze from the screen for 88 minutes
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Rewatch confirms I’m firmly in the ‘Elysium‘s really entertaining’ camp. To be fair, approximately 85% of my appreciation is for these six seconds, but the rest is totally on my wavelength as a dystopian future heist-gone-wrong action-thriller
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A forgotten mainland wushu-wuxia gem with much of the same talent as the Jet Li Shaolin films, YELLOW RIVER FIGHTER /黃河大俠 is from 1988 but feels like a film made a decade earlier. Here’s an assorted minute of its blisteringly fast, scrappy, tactile swordplay
I’ve seen a lot of revenge films, a lot of wuxia, and a lot of revenge wuxia, but this was the most whoa-what-is-this-movie brutal moment I’ve seen in a while
(Yellow River Fighter, 1988)
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A new Evil Dead from the French spider horror director who wants do a nasty film that hurts, and a new Evil Dead from a stylish neo-noir/neo-western director: I love that the franchise has become a playground for up-&-coming genre filmmakers
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Was exhilarating to see The Raid in its 4K glory. The gorgeous new grade really made the carnage I’ve seen myriad times before feel fresh again; I thought the apartment hellhole seemed even grimier and grungier with the enhanced atmosphere of mottled decay
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Turns out all you need to survive an earthquake apocalypse and…uh, mad science zombie mutants are sledgehammer fists. BADLAND HUNTERS unfolds with the simplicity of a ‘90s DTV actioner and revels in the comforting popcorn satisfaction inherent to Don Lee pulverizing all comers
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Reign of Assassins should be *much* better known. Not merely because of Yeoh + Woo combo, but also for being a breezy “A History of Violence” x “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” wuxia fusion with The Good The Bad The Weird’s Jung Woo-sung and a mummified monk macguffin
Also the wuxia he co-directed, REIGN OF ASSASSINS (2010), starring (dubbed) Michelle Yeoh.
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Been nearly 20 years since I saw Troy - only remembered the lunging stab, armies colliding, and helmet POV - and watching the director’s cut was an extremely entertaining three hours. It’s not Kingdom of Heaven but it is a bloodthirsty period pulp maximized to mid-‘00s epic scale
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A thread of under-the-radar vampire films to watch this spooky month
Limbo/Children of the Night (2014) is a fascinating vampire tale from Argentina, its ideas towering over its budget/direction. Part Nightbreed, part Neverland, part Let The Right One In, exploring the rites and trials of a child vampire colony in surreal, playful, gory fashion
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We stan Chronicles of Riddick here; such an unadulterated big swing of sci-fi blockbuster epic at its most kid-in-a-toybox popcorn pulp
Quite hilarious that Vin Diesel put some approximation of "Weirding Way" combat in his Space Conan movie whereas Villeneuve didn't even fuckin bother with the conceit
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Ten seconds to sell you on Chuang Yan-Chien’s gang-war-drama-x-fuck-physics-mayhem REVANCHIST. ‘80s and ‘90s Taiwanese action rips
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Same director, all bangers…
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Incredible. Need to grab the 4K ASAP, looks like a whole new movie. The pop of color make it seem even grimier
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GODZILLA MINUS ONE is a triumph of kaiju terror and monster metaphor. Not even the OG captivated me like this soulful postwar melodrama of trauma and struggle to heal fighting against devastation incarnate. Spectacle, misery, humor, humanity: THE crowdpleasing blockbuster of 2023
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In preparation for Skinamarink, finally finished watching through all 39 of Kyle Edward Ball’s Bitesized Nightmares shorts. The director has been honing his style of hypnagogic horror for five years
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Hitman-core AF. The most Agent 47-ass movie yet, continuing the trend of non-video game movies being the best video game movies
THE KILLER is on Netflix, so everyone can now know how hard the opening credits go.
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Trying to understand why I used to dislike Kiss of the Dragon. Maybe I was just in the right mood this time around
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Need more movies that expand these vibes to feature length (The Night Flier scratches that itch for me). I’m just glad that Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula went this hard and extravagant whenever it leaned into full-tilt monster horror
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Holy shit. Letting Phil Tippett and his stop motion talents collab with Del Toro to adapt Lovecraft would be a dream come true. Mad God kind of proved that animation would be the best visual medium to bring unimaginable horrors to life
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Seeing Michelle Yeoh’s latest later today, so seemed like a good time to rewatch her first lead role
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The itch for more horror-westerns led me to 2022’s NIGHT OF THE TOMMYKNOCKERS. Tons of micro-budget westerns flood the DTV space yearly, most best left unseen, but sometimes worthwhile fare emerges. Under 90 minutes and doesn’t shy away from monster gore; just mind the acting
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Hard Boiled hospital by a sizable margain, basically untouchable; then there’s Better Tomorrow II’s apartment and mansion, The Killer’s church...
But the nightclub gunfight in Bullet In The Head deserves more attention (really that whole movie)
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Finally started my way through the Mr Vampire films and not even the modern actually-scary refresh Rigor Mortis doesn’t come close to capture the kineticism of the OG. Funnily what seemed to closest to this zany frenetic vampire fighting fun is Day Shift
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Still arguably the greatest behind-the-scenes reveal I’ve ever seen. The ingenuity and seamlessness and intensity
watched the Raid 2 for the first time and it had the best car chase i’ve ever seen so i googled it to see how they did it and one of the cameramen was disguised as a carseat???
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Despite being owned by Fox, Tubi feels like some secret movie vault that’s going to vanish from the Internet at any moment. Its selection is almost too good to be true
The selection of b-movies on Tubi is insane. There's stuff on there that had all but vanished from circulation since the video store days and in some cases they have blu-ray quality prints of film never even on DVD. I've come across movies I had forgotten even existed.
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‘70s scumbag neo-noir coked-out into a synthy ‘80s inferno of toxic policing, sweaty adrenaline-rush recklessness, sun-seared LA grime, so many shotgunned faces, and the most gloriously messy car chase ever put to film.
Been too long since I revisited Friedkin’s crime scorcher
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Been years since I last saw Shinsuke Sato’s I AM A HERO, so it was a pleasure to revisit (and show to the family for the first time, they’re in TLOU/zombie hype mode rn). Such a fun, unique, chaos-packed zombie film with a spectacular first act and glorious bloodbath of a finale
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MASTER simultaneously felt like a ‘90s actioner JCVD or Gary Daniels might’ve led, a descendant of HK films like School on Fire, and a sincere tonal whirlwind only Indian cinema could produce. Not quite Kaithi/Vikram tier IMO but Lokesh sure knows how to direct a bruisin’ banger
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Before there was Evil Dead 2, there was Encounters of a Spooky Kind (1980)
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The one-take village pillage from neolithic thriller Iceman (2017), which turns the story of mummified Otzi into a revenge-tone-poem acted in a dead language. No subtitles either; the story is told through context, body language, and imagery
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