Paul’s Reviews Of Assorted Random (mostly) B Movies:
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A Clockwork Orange: a B-Movie perspective.
Just because it’s a classic doesn’t mean we can’t view it as if it were trash.
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A Scanner Darkly, a semi-animated
adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel.
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Adventures In Dinosaur City,
a children’s adventure of uncommon ridiculousness, featuring rubber dinosaur heads.
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Aeon Flux, a glamorous futuristic action
movie based on an even more empty-headed cartoon.
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Art School Confidential —
not really a B movie, but a more or less arty adaptation of Daniel Clowes’
underground comic, Eightball.
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Baise-moi, a nihilistic French thriller
made by porn actresses, which includes hardcore sex.
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Bottoms Up, in which Jason Mewes romances
Paris Hilton. Yeah, exactly. Jason Mewes as in Jay And Silent Bob.
And Paris Hilton.
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Boxing Helena, in which David Lynch’s
daughter self-destructs her career before it can even start.
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Butterfly... our first unforgettable
experience of living legend Pia Zadora.
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Caligula, the legendary failed attempt
to unite grand epic filmmaking with porn.
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Two cheap eighties thrillers by Albert Pyun:
Dangerously Close and
Down Twisted.
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The First Spaceship On Venus,
Roger Corman’s english-dubbed butchering of the first big attempt at an
interplanetary adventure behind the iron curtain.
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Fuzz, a crude effort by primitive early man at
combining comedy with cop action.
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Hotel, in which Mike Figgis brings the indie WTF.
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I Know Who Killed Me.
Lindsay Lohan attempts to salvage her career and reputation with some serious
acting, in a movie that cannot be taken seriously.
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The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
— in context. This examination of the overall career and latest
film of the great Terry Gilliam really doesn’t belong with B movies, but I
don’t have any A-movie page.
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Nude On The Moon... the
greatest cheap spaceship movie ever created.
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Three by the great French crapiste Jean Rollin:
Rape Of The Vampire, Requiem For
A Vampire, and Shiver Of The Vampires.
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Santo vs. the Martians —
just like the name says: Santo, the mightiest of all masked
luchadores, wrassles some Martians.
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Southland Tales — a big
sprawling epic full of bold imagination and meaningful issues... as those
things are conceived by an incoherent moron.
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Subhuman, in which a drug-addled loser
is secretly protecting the human race from evil parasites.
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Tail Sting... Scorpions On A Plane!
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Teenage Caveman, in which Larry Clark’s
special knack for wallowing in youthful hedonism goes post-apocalyptic.
(Note: If you want to read good reviews of B movies, you should go to
And You Call Yourself A Scientist! instead.