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Film Lover of New Hampshire
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Film critique of every enticing entry from El Topo to The Exorcist
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welker831
Jan 21, 20215 min read
The Conversation
No film better exemplifies the paranoia of ’70s American cinema—the sharp, acute anxiety that was the flip side to the aesthetic...
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welker831
Jan 15, 20215 min read
The Godfather
Let me ask you, the reader, a question you've probably never had to answer: Why is The Godfather so great? Great does not mean iconic;...
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welker831
Jan 10, 20215 min read
Patton
This will be the first piece in a five part examination of the work of Francis Ford Coppola. If you know me, or follow this blog, then...
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welker831
Jan 5, 20215 min read
1992 Retrospective: Unforgiven
"There is unlikely to be a better movie from the States or anywhere else this year. Directed by Clint Eastwood from an eloquent,...
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welker831
Jan 1, 20214 min read
1992 Retrospective: Reservoir Dogs
Roger Ebert (as he's wont to do) perfectly encapsulated Quentin Tarantino's core aesthetic back in his review of the first film he wrote...
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welker831
Dec 27, 20204 min read
1992 Retrospective: The Last of the Mohicans
The portrayal of Native American culture in film was evolving significantly in the early '90s. The traditional John Wayne westerns where...
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welker831
Dec 23, 20204 min read
1992 Retrospective: Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 may have had one of the greatest lines of dialogue with "You can't handle the truth" in A Few Good Men, but it had one of the...
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welker831
Dec 20, 20204 min read
1992 Retrospective: A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men was released on December 11th, 1992; nine days before my birth. The Barry Levinson trainwreck Toys (literally), released...
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welker831
Dec 16, 20203 min read
1992 Retrospective: The Crying Game
The Crying Game came out October 30th, 1992. Although ostensibly a movie about the Irish Republican Army, the Good Friday agreement that...
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welker831
Dec 12, 20204 min read
1992 Retrospective: Alien 3
Where were you in 1992? Yugoslavia broke up, Bill Clinton was elected President, the Redskins gave the Bills a thrashing in the Super...
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welker831
Dec 9, 20203 min read
All-Time Stinkers #1: Les Misérables
No critic reviews this time (although "I screeched a screech" was clever), no Roger Ebert, no production notes, it's just me vs. Mis. In...
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welker831
Dec 4, 20204 min read
All-Time Stinkers #2: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
(This blog post contains a startling number of critic review excerpts. I really couldn't say it better myself) "The movie's ID overload...
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welker831
Nov 29, 20204 min read
All-Time Stinkers #3: Upstream Color
"Poems have meaning. Poets use their form deliberately, and even abstract work takes purpose to matter. A movie without depth or story...
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welker831
Nov 5, 20204 min read
In the Mouth of Madness
John Carpenter's The Thing saw the director at the height of his powers, hitting an artistic peak that was almost inevitable when he...
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welker831
Nov 1, 20203 min read
The Omen
I've already discussed a number of horror film masterworks over the past week, so you'd think I'd go out on top with another towering...
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welker831
Oct 29, 20204 min read
The Thing (1982)
1982 was a landmark year for science fiction. There was the legendary Blade Runner, the box office juggernaut E.T. The Extra Terrestrial,...
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welker831
Oct 25, 20204 min read
The Blair Witch Project
In October 1994, three film students (Heather, Mike, and Josh; the real actors' names) go to Burkittsville, Maryland to make a...
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welker831
Oct 21, 20203 min read
Day of the Dead (1985)
As a direct sequel to Dawn of the Dead, in a narrative sense but definitely not a tonal sense, an opening text says that the zombies...
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welker831
Oct 14, 20204 min read
The Exorcist III
You might be wondering why I'm not looking into The Exorcist II before getting to III. It can be summed up in this excerpt from the...
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welker831
Oct 12, 20204 min read
The Exorcist
"It may be that the times we live in have prepared us for this movie. I’ve always preferred a generic approach to film criticism; I ask...
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