Recent Viewings, Part 2

[FatFreddysCat]

"Off The Rails" (2016)
A documentary about the odd case Darius McCollum, an autistic New York train enthusiast whose obsession with mass transit has led him to repeatedly impersonate a New York MTA employee so he can drive trains and city buses. He's been incarcerated 32 (!) times for his crimes yet he continues to violate Parole in order to take trains and buses for joy rides.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Angel" (1984)
A teenage honor student by day (Donna Wilkes) leads a secret double life as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard at night. As if that wasn't enough pressure, she becomes the target of a serial killer who's already carved up a few of her friends.
This long time cable cult favorite somehow manages to find a balance between sleazy exploitation flick and After School Special style cautionary drama. Followed by three (!) sequels, each with a different girl in the title role.

[Rev. Powell]

CUDDLY TOYS (2022): A mondo-style experimental mockumentary about the dangers facing today's teenage girls and refuses to shy away from the worst case scenario. An extremely angry feminist film that drapes its indignation in a layer of low-budget camp irony, which somehow both blunts and sharpens its impact.  3/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Love Me Deadly (1972) - Well, that was certainly something. A woman who looks like Chrissy from Three's Company has a REALLY dark secret: she's a necrophiliac! Also, she got that way because of unresolved feelings towards her late father. Someone was doing some baaaaaaad drugs when they made this reasonably well acted and played totally straight WTF film experience. 

The last 1/3 is the craziest and best part. The rest of the movie could have used a little of that energy instead of the soap opera ish, marriage drama vibe. Would make a good double biill with "Neither The Sand, Nor The Sea" or even "The Baby".

4.33 /5

It was a bit lower heading in to the last half hour, but that redeemed it. Ally Sheedy's character in The Breakfast Club would probably enjoy this. The terrible, overheated theme song is the icing on the cake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3ICBDNmMY (warning: gross corpse kiss)

[FatFreddysCat]

"Your Mother Wears Combat Boots" (1989)
When an overprotective single Mom (Barbara Eden) learns that her only child has quit college and joined the Army, she travels to his base to talk him out of it, but ends up inadvertently going through Airborne training herself.
A fluffy made for TV "Private Benjamin"/"Stripes" knock-off that gets by mostly on the charms of its leading lady (Barb was in her late 50s when she made this, but was still lookin' pretty MILF-y) and ample support from vets Hector Elizondo (as Barb's exasperated Sergeant) and Conchita ("Two and a Half Men") Ferrell. Not a must see but an OK time waster for a rainy afternoon.

[Rev. Powell]

Rewatch, but I don't think I've reviewed it here before. CURE (1997): A detective investigates a series of killings where ordinary people slay their loved ones after meeting a mysterious man with amnesia. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's existential classic is a dark police procedural that is actually about the search for identity and the battle with the evil inside each of us. 4.5/5.