Ponderous Personal Projects – Page 20 – Resolutions, reviews, rants, raves.

The Ipcress File [1965]

The Ipcress File
Sidney J. Furie
4/6

What happened to the thriller genre? This is so much better than the Missions Impossibles and the Jasons Bournes of the moderns ages.

Shakes the Clown
Bobcat Goldthwait
1/6

Nope.

Rocketman
Dexter Fletcher
2/6

Listen to Rock of the Westies instead.

Stand Up Guys
Fisher Stevens
4/7

Sweet.

Happy Death Day 2U
Christopher Landon
3/7

Awww… Why did they have to make a sequel? And I even hear they’re making a third.

Disturbia
D. J. Caruso
2/7

Basically a cover version of Rear Window. It’s… not as good–let’s put it that way.

Call Me Lucky
Bobcat Goldthwait
6/6

A documentary about Barry Crimmins, who I bizarrely knew nothing about until now.

Very Bad Things
Peter Berg
4/7

The Hangover’s grandfather, but with more cocaine and dead hookers. And more shouting.

Anon
Andrew Niccol
4/6

Pretty solid thriller. Not much to say, except… what’s the use of a tiny dialog box with a tiny font way out in the peripheral vision?

La Planéte Sauvage
René Laloux
3/7

What a bunch of hippie nonsense.