Number 8 of my ten star films, True Romance (1993) and I still think it is just as fun as it always was. Very violent but it is really fast and funny and I also like all the star turns of Hopper, Oldman, Pitt, Kilmer and especially with Walken. The dialogue and direction fine and of course Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette both splendid in this.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) is the seventh of my 5/5 splendid films. John Goodman is always good but amazingly good in this one and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is very good and she has to do rather a lot in this, but almost just a couple of rooms within a bunker. It is scary and thrilling at the beginning and throughout. I loved it before and for me it happens all over again because it is so cleaver and very really done.
I don’t know how I’ve managed to not see this film till now, except I guess, for some reason it was only available for a short time. But it is a stunner, all bright, golden and light, at first, but rapidly the evidence of some dark undertow becomes evident. Alain Souchon seems a barely adequate pairing for Isabelle Adjani but it all gradually comes together. Adjani is skimpily dressed, partly undressed or completely nude for the entire picture and so…
I didn’t think much of this when I first saw it and don’t think much of it now. It’s terrible really because the girls are great and it looks good most of the time with plenty of sexy kills. The title, salacious though it is, is pretty accurate, but the predictable tale plods along and in the end produces a killer we have not only not seen but did not know existed! Distortion on the soundtrack doesn’t help this one.…
