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Badlands (1973 Movie) – Summary, Analysis

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by JL Admin

In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people. It seems every creatively bankrupt director has at some time or another been flying between New York and Los Angeles, and in their boredom looked out the window and noticed a country going by. ‘Eureka!’ they say into their airline…

Bad Boy Bubby: Synopsis & Analysis

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by JL Admin

All he needs is love.  As a rule, Hollywood portrays the mentally disabled as quaint, likeable, quirky and entirely benign people who occasionally say the wisest things. No wait, I’m thinking of Australians. Anyway, if you want to watch both conventions refreshingly shattered, see the Australian Indy legend Bad Boy Bubby.  It may seem like…

Akira (1988 Anime) – Story Summary & Analysis

Posted on September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by JL Admin

Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.  The entire genre of Japanese Anime is a cult unto itself. I hesitate in limiting the inclusion of Anime entries to a thousand films, let alone one. Anime’s following is so passionate that no selection is going to be good enough for its devotees. So before they come home from…

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension! – Summary & Analysis

Posted on September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by JL Admin

No matter where you go, there you are.  Like so many cult films, this 1984 production was initially considered a box-office failure. Its cult popularity grew by word of mouth and the advocacy of American ubercritic Pauline Kael. Essentially it’s the typical story of a scientist/rock ’n’ roll musician/brain surgeon/samurai who fights evil aliens named…

Paul’s Case – Analysis

Posted on September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by JL Admin

Are we products of nature or of the way we are nurtured? Do our genes dictate who we will be, or is our environment responsible for that? Are we governed by our own free will, or does destiny mandate what will become of us? These are some of the many questions that plague humanity, the…

Pan’s Labyrinth – Story Summary & Analysis

Posted on September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary:  It is 1944. Ofelia is uprooted and sent with her mother to a Fascist military outpost run by her stepfather, Vidal. Ofelia’s mother is pregnant with Ofelia’s brother, but the pregnancy is not going smoothly and Ofelia’s mother is sick en route. In order to cope with the loneliness, isolation and fear that characterise…

Closely Watched Trains – Summary, Analysis

Posted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary:  Miloš Hrma, the youngest in a long line of layabouts, starts his first job as a trainee signalman at Kostomlaty train station a few kilometres outside of Prague during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in the early 1940s. The isolated station is headed by an inept and frustrated stationmaster who is more interested in…

Obsession / Ossessione – Summary, Analysis

Posted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary:  Set in the Po Delta, Ossessione tells the doomed love story of a handsome vagabond and a frustrated wife. When Gino stops in Bragana’s roadside gas-station restaurant for a meal, he meets the owner’s young spouse, Giovanna. Inescapably attracted to each other, they soon begin a passionate affair, and eventually Gino agrees to help…

When A Woman Ascends The Stairs – Summary, Analysis

Posted on September 7, 2019September 7, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary:  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is a careful character study of Keiko, a widowed bar hostess in Tokyo’s fashionable Ginza neighbourhood. At age 30, Keiko faces three life choices: to remarry before her society regards her as too old to do so, to become a kept woman of a wealthy business owner, or…

Once Were Warriors: Summary, Analysis

Posted on September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary:  Jake is an alpha male in a man’s world who engages in domestic violence as easily as he does a pub brawl. By reconnecting with her Maori roots his wife, Beth, finds the strength to break out from the cycle of violence and take her children away from Jake, but not before their teenage…

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