#Revenge Films

[ruleof3bobby]

SAVAGE ISLAND (1985) Grade: D+

No idea how this movie ended up on my list. But at least I could cross it off. Just a old "B" movie / grind house type film. Will actually be an interesting/average #Netflix movie w higher budget.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1973 Mean Mother Movie Poster - Blaxploitation by Vinnie DeVille Via Flickr: Vintage advertising poster for the blaxploitation revenge film, Mean Mother. Nice Mid-Century Art Graphics. Actor Clifton Brown is actually singer Dobie Gray (The In Crowd, Drift Away) starring as a Viet Nam veteran putting it to The Man and The Mob. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

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An Angry Boy

Short on budget and, at least at the start, long on creativity, Andrew Fitzgerald’s AN ANGRY BOY (2023, Tubi, Plex) starts well and ends up almost maddening thanks to some sloppy thinking and plotting. Despite some strong performances, it wears out its welcome.

Ever since rescuing a woman from muggers, high-school student Owen (Scott Callenberger) has been hallucinating visions of a silent boy and memories of a strange camp in the woods run by some kind of guru (Eric Roberts). Then a man (Thomas Cambridge) breaks into his house and makes Owen watch his own mother’s murder. With the police getting nowhere, Owen decides to hunt down the killer himself by piecing together his memories and with long-distance research assistance from his best friend (Caleb Lowery).

Working independently, Fitzgerald fills his cast with intriguing unknowns who don’t look like conventional movie actors. The only name is Roberts, who’s second billed in what’s really just a cameo. He overplays deliciously, which is a nice contrast to Callenberger and Lowery, who are appealingly natural. The early scenes setting up the situation and the environment are quite well done, though the murder is not for the squeamish. When Owen starts exploring small towns in search of the killer, the film has a great feel for life on the road as a procession of cheap diners and no-star motels.

The big problem with the film, on a purely ideological level, is its treatment of pedophilia. At first, it seems almost subtle. As Owen’s repressed memories come to the surface, we see him lured away by Cambridge and introduced to Roberts. The only suggestion that the child is being sexually abused is one scene in which he leaves his tent at night and is followed by Roberts. But in the present, Owen’s research turns up the name of the group, NAMBLA, which is described as a cult that kidnapped children before being broken up by the authorities in 1970. Why that name? I’m not apologizing for the group. It just seems like lazy writing to stick the name of a group still in existence on a now-defunct cult. One of Cambridge’s friends is presented as a pedophile; when he supplies Cambridge with new license plates, he expects payment in the form of a “date” with a child the killer has kidnapped. But when he runs into Callenberger, who’s traveled to their small town in search of leads, he blatantly cruises him. Do we really need to perpetuate the myth that gay men are child abusers when most abusers present themselves as heterosexuals (yes, statistically speaking your children are safer with a drag queen than your sister’s husband)? And is that why the transphobic and homophobic New York Times recommended the film? All of this is compounded by some narrative shortcuts in the final act, so that whatever good will is built up by the performances and the earlier scenes, ends up squandered.

[tatooineknights]

I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi - like my father.

[captaingimpy]

The Revenant (2015) Review: A Quiet Masterpiece in Brutality and Survival

It took me far too long to finally sit down and watch The Revenant, and now that I have, I’m kicking myself for the delay. This movie is intense, brutal, and, honestly, pretty close to a perfect film for what it is. What stands out from the start is the quietness of it all. Compared to most films—and even compared to other works by director Alejandro González Iñárritu—The Revenant thrives on…

[zanephillips]

Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976)

[graceashcroft]

“The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.”

[filmescapism]

⋆˚｡⋆ ⋆˚｡⋆⋆˚｡⋆ ⋆Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma⋆˚｡⋆ ⋆˚｡⋆⋆˚｡⋆

[thegirlwhorunsforthetrain]

No One Rides For Free by Judith Sonnet

“He needed to die,” Continue reading Untitled

[ainasluv]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER.

[ruleof3bobby]

FLAWLESS (2007) Grade: C+

Bad title to start. Even for a heist film it was a predictable and not believable. Wasn't a fan of #DemiMoore as the female lead. Ending was a snooze.

[torbins-braid]

soft Anakin

[tuserlivia]

NATALIE PORTMAN and HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as PADME AMIDALA and ANAKIN SKYWALKER in STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)

[projectcatzo]

Monkey Man is a movie about--and I mean this in the most literal way possible--how the kindness and wisdom of trans people can alter the trajectory of not only your life but also society

[tatooineknights]

Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.