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Hitchcock (2012)
Someday someone will honor him as it should be!
This film is specifically based, as its book says, on how Psycho was filmed, but it is nothing more than that in a very complex world like the mind of Alfred Hitchcock; Like its contemporary The Girl (2012), they only focus on one point in the biography. I think that Toby Jones' acting and physical similarity is far superior to that of Anthony Hopkins, even Hopkins' appearance only leads me to think that he is an obese version of another great director like Dario Argento. I can mention the excellent photography and direction of the film, but I reiterate again that this film and The Girl (2012) is something very scarce to talk about this artist, it is only 1/4 part of the story; Someday someone will honor him as it should be!
Alphabet City (1984)
Great staging about the underworld, terrible direction.
What I like about Alphabet City is its cool idea about the underworld of the legendary streets and districts of NYC, not everything has to be gloomy as Scorsese or
Ferrara, but the film disappoints in its development and narrative, all due to the misdirection of its creator, Amos Poe, with a compendium of short scenes where his characters seem to want to say a lot and in the end they say nothing, there is a scene that they come to be even ridiculous, for example when the protagonist, Vincent Spano, trying to escape with the money, arrives at a ruined building and takes the stored money and in the process talks to it and gives money to a rat to buy cheese, (??? What!), and Michael Winslow's not very funny scenes in the middle of that hell of drugs in the night streets, it is unfortunate that a good vision of the staging is overshadowed by terrible direction and script.
Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
A pretext for a feminine gay world that is not funny
Ethan Cohen uses almost all the clichés of his filmography with his brother, but everything is so repetitive that the intention of a different story is lost. It seems that this solo debut showed Ethan that he still needs his brother to carry it out a project. Many of these contemporary stories with homosexual content ultimately end up being necessary and remembered only by the community, as was the case with the very interesting Desert Hearts (1985) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), and at one point I thought that this one would transcend but Disappointment won, Viswanathan and Qualley's performances work well but that's about it. Maybe Ethan's intention was to do something more flashy but it just didn't work.
Wonka (2023)
Where is the CHOCOLATE!
The film has excellent photography, the performances are consistent, especially that of Hugh Grant, he is very funny in his interpretation, the musical is very attractive, with very beautiful and catchy songs, the costumes are very interesting and the FX are also consistent without exaggerations, but what fails here is CHOCOLATE, because there is none, there are few scenes where the chocolates and other sweets that Wonka's factory can produce are predominant, even though this is the beginning of said factory, the script concentrates more on showing a naive Willy Wonka trying to escape from all the traps of his opponents in the chocolate business and Olivia Colman's character, it is a film that does not excite you very much, nor does it surprise you. The best, Hugh Grant's performance. 5/5 stars.
L.A. Johns (1997)
Semi-satire about prostitution made for television. (remember it's made for television!)
This is a small and short satire about that absurd, miserable and materialistic world, the main actress fits perfectly into her character, because it is what a man dreams of with a woman to make love to her, blonde and blue-eyed. The other characters are basic in these stories, but they fulfill their role without exaggerating. Debbie Harry plays a gentle and affable Madame from Beverly Hills, who is almost the same as the witch she played in Tales from the Darkside (1990). Maybe with a bigger budget they would have done more exterior scenes, because that area of Los Angeles is very interesting architecturally. In the end there is a kind of moral about these types of activities and behaviors that are worth discussing at a gathering of friends.
Purgatory (1988)
Prison-Exploitation
For me this film is a little different from the other prison-exploitation films, because in a certain way it adds a little more drama and political atmosphere, I think it fails a little in the nudity that is something that characterizes the genre (in fact there is only one frontal nudity scene). The action scenes are very short and laughable, it is clear that there was no money to make them in that part, I think it is a co-production of Africa-Europe-Israel, and it is very strange because when there are films made in this way the budget increases. But the rest is more of the same, except for that blue-eyed legend Tanya Roberts R. I. P.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
A violent familiar film.
Many scenes here are bloody and gore, the sex scene is stupid and the whole scrip about guerrilla and scientist is senseless.