G. Smalley

Favorite films

  • The Substance
  • Videodrome
  • The Godfather
  • Network

All
  • Luce

    ★★★½

  • Hurry Up Tomorrow

    ★★

  • How to Get Ahead in Advertising

    ★★★★½

  • Wild Rose

    ★★★½

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Hurry Up Tomorrow

2025

★★ Watched

A pop megastar who's spiraling downward after a bad breakup (Abel Tesfaye, AKA The Weeknd) has a one-night stand with an unhinged, obsessed fan (Jenna Ortega). This vanity project is stylishly directed but badly paced, and the self-indulgent "woe is me" messaging will turn off all but the most dedicated fans.

Wild Rose

2018

★★★½ Watched

An impulsive and irresponsible single mother from Glasgow, Scotland dreams of going to Nashville and becoming a country singer. A bit predictable, but Jessie Buckley is amazing in the role---particular the musical numbers (that gal can really sing!)

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After Last Season

2009

2

A pair of med students who may have psychic abilities stumble onto a serial killer, or something like that, in this strong candidate for the worst feature length film ever made. Between the baffled actors reciting bewildering dialogue, sheets of paper taped to walls to identify sets, and the crude trial software animation used to bring the characters' mental visualizations to life, it's like listening to your dullest friend relate his strangest dream. A film to watch because it exists and for no other reason.

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

2019

★★★★½ 2

A CIA agent (who also happens to be a hunchbacked dwarf and pizza connoisseur) accepts a mission to go into "Psychobook" to combat the virus "Stalin" released by the Soviet Union. Meet the President of Ethiopia (a kung fu supervillain) and Jesus himself inside this virtual reality world which is itself nestled in an alternate reality where the Cold War never ended, and technology is simultaneously stuck in the 1990s and decades ahead of where we are today. You've never seen anything quite like this absurdist psychological thriller/camp comedy. It's a real-deal next-generation cult movie waiting in the wings.

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