May we share our bounty of autistic melodramas, apocalyptic apes, the last man on earth, surrrealist porn, psychedelic walls, stoner comedies, New Wave metafiction, slapstick social comedies, and free-to-watch indies with you?
THE ROOM (2003): "... all of this nonsensicality would have resulted in a forgettably awful movie if not for the odd screen presence of Wiseau, whose incongruous anti-charisma adds a layer of perverse fascination."
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970): "Nova and Brent go cave exploring and what do they find? An elongated and pointless rehash of the first movie."-AE
THE OMEGA MAN (1971): "For lovers of great trash (and it still goes perfect with late night cardboard pizza)."-AE
NIGHTDREAMS (1981): "The movie’s most memorable sequence, no doubt, is when Dorothy fellates a living rendition of a Cream of Wheat box while serenaded by a jazz version of 'Old Man River.'"
WONDERWALL (1968): "In some ways,
Wonderwall is the ultimate flower-power feature, with not much plot but lots of swirling colors and long-haired people being groovy."
DON PEYOTE (2014): " If it’s sheer trippiness you’re after,
Peyote delvers in spades, with visions of aquatic goddesses, spontaneous folk-rock dance numbers, and guys in demonic bunny suits waiting around every bend. If it’s structured trippiness and insight into life’s great questions you seek, however, go somewhere else, because the all-over-the-cosmos plot has the attention span of an adult-onset ADD patient whose noshed too many shrooms."
TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS (1967):"After a series of double crosses and betrayals which are nearly impossible to sort out, because the director keeps rewriting the script, it all ends in tragedy at 'Eve’s Witchcraft Cabaret,' a bondage-themed club with a naked girl chained to a rotating stage."
EASY STREET (1917): "Some critics claims it’s [Chaplin's] most perfectly composed film, with shrewdly chosen ingredients of minimal pathos, well developed characterizations, the Tramp’s quintessential antagonist and his most frequent leading lady, balanced slapstick, drug addiction, attempted rape, domestic violence, mockery of status quo, with social and political satire thrown in as the cherry on top of the icing on top of the cake."-AE
A PUBLIC RANSOM (2014): "... a smart script and a functional cast can’t save a film if the director and photographer’s auteur vision is so painfully marred by an inability to hold a camera."-JH