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Essential Videos Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho, a dark and violent satire of "me" culture of the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, is certainly one of the most controversial books of the 90s, and that notoriety fueled its best - Seller status. This elegant, sophisticated adaptation by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) may be able to ride the crest of fame, before the release of the film, Harron has waged a ratings battle (ironically, from the representations of gender rather than violence), but when the director said: "We're rescuing [the book] from its bad reputation." Harron and co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner (Go Fish) overcome many of the objections of Ellis's novel, which shall bear the most extreme violence off the field (sometimes barely), suggesting the reign of terror of yuppie killer Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) with splashes of blood and personal souvenirs. Bale is razor sharp as the hum of the company preening white tiger costume designer voice and sal…
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Essential Video This box-office hit of 1969 was a forerunner of American independent film movement and a touchstone for generations to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and meet a patchwork of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns into an important role as an attorney who joins their quest for a little 'and is articulated social problem with freedom as Fonda and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills approach of the legendary drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (Little Shop of Horrors) one component of gravity for the general public. The film can not help looking a bit 'dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end is not particularly good), but retains its original power, sense of the effects of audacity, and first importance. - Tom Keogh won an Academy Award for Jack Nicholson (Best Actor, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975) stars with Peter Fon…
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This time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having your cake and eat, too. Written and directed by Tom Laughlin - and with him in the title role - Billy Jack is half white, half Indian karate expert who protects a free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell Rednecks pesky. The story actually embraces that tension between Billy Jack's way of doing things and the founder of the school (Delores Taylor), but the tension is not really lead to a revision of the principles in that leads to an excuse for Laughlin to integrate the fight scenes between hippie politics. Coarse and brutal, the film is rather exploiting a spectator sympathies torn, and the way Billy Jack actually provides most of the simple-minded, violent fare that followed in films of the 70s and 80s. - Tom Keogh The trend setting runaway hit that broke records at the box office and had the crowd into a frenzy! A former half-Indian/half-white Gre…
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Studio: TCFHE / MGM Release Date: 06/16/2009 Rating: PG…
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When a Yakuza boss is murdered and his money was stolen, both truth and revenge are brutally enforced. Leading the charge is Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano), bleach blonde pain junky whose interrogation methods are fetishistically sadist. As the layers of the sordid history is confused, it seems that someone tried to turn rival gangs against each other. The focus of this strategy is the Killer Ichi (Nao Omori), a mysterious and completely deranged master of slaughter. During the final confrontation comes, is an event psychologicallycataclysmic. This one-of-a-kind, over-the-top, upset stomach, live-action cartoon of Takashi Miike (Visitor Q, IZO) is a modern classic extreme and more influential.…
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