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Society (1989) ***1/2

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Planet Terror (2007) ***1/2

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Focus On Film: Episode 42 – September 2016 Criterion Titles

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Focus On Film   Episode 42  is up! Download the MP3  HERE In this episode: September 2016  Criterion Collection   Titles Announcement Best & Worst Of The Month  –  THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997), SAMURAI COP  (1991), THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY  (1980), THE LOBSTER  (2015) Criterion Most Wanted "Focus On Film Theme"  & commercial music:  Daniel Sardella

The Wicker Man - The Final Cut (1973) ***

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The Neon Demon (2016) ****

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The Neon Demon (2016) is   Mulholland Drive  (2001) meets Starry Eyes  (2014), featuring one of Cliff Martinez 's best scores.   NWR , you continue to be one of my favorite filmmakers.

Josh Bazell "Wild Thing" (2012) ***1/2

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Escape From New York (1981) ****1/2

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Sisters (1972) ***1/2

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The Long Good Friday (1980) ****1/2

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Father's Day (2011) ***1/2

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"You don't call a man a tree."

De Palma (2015) ***1/2

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To Be Takei (2014) ***1/2

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Hail, Caesar! (2016) ****

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In  Hail, Caesar!  (2016),  Brolin  channels  Polito ,  Tatum  is actually good, and the  Coens  manage (unsurprisingly) to both parody and display their affection for Old Hollywood. I laughed a lot and I loved it. It reminded me of another  Coen  favorite  The Hudsucker Proxy  ( 1994) with dashes of  The Big Lebowski   (1998) and  The Man Who Wasn't There   (2001).

Incendies (2010) ****

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Polytechnique (2009) ****

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Jurassic World (2015) ***1/2 [Jurassathon Pt. 4]

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The Conjuring 2 (2016) ***

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Jurassic Park III (2001) *** [Jurassathon Pt. 3]

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Death Wish 3 (1985) ***1/2

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) *** [Jurassathon Pt. 2]

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Jurassic Park (1993) ***** [Jurassathon Pt. 1]

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) ****1/2 [TCM Double Feature Pt. 2]

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Chop Top:  Music is my life. Stretch ♥ L.G. Drayton Sawyer:  One of those hard-shell peppercorns. Chop Top:  DOG WILL HUNT. Stretch:  "How...good...are...you?" Stretch:  You're REALLY good. Lefty:  I'm the lord of the harvest.  Drayton:  The saw is FAMILY. 

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) ****1/2 [TCM Double Feature Pt. 1]

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The Lobster (2015) ****

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I really enjoyed  The Lobster   (2015). It's as if Spike Jonze and PTA co-directed a film with creative input by Quentin Dupieux . It also reminded me of  Full Metal Jacket  (1987) in the way that it had two "sections"—with the second half being slower. The ending was perfect.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) ***1/2

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Antiviral (2012) ****

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Intruder (1989) ***

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