Now with more updates!

I think I'm going to start updating from both ends of the 65 movie backlog.  The number has remained constant since  I keep seeing new movies!  9 so far this month, and while I think it's more methodical to do it in chronological order, I'm thinking I'll get caught up quicker if I post recent stuff as well.

Most of the backlog comes from February which was a mental month for me watching flicks - 40 movies!  I had 4 movie channels that were playing all kinds of classic flicks, plus whatever theatre shows I could get out to as well.

Anyhow, I think I'll be doing the updates more randomly, or at not least not completely chronologically.

Juncture

directed by  James Seale (2007)

Juncture is a noirish revenge flick with a pretty good ending that leaves an opening for sequels, or just for imaginating what happens next.  It's satisfying on a bloodthirsty level, but it's a real B flick, not terrible, but not super compelling either.  It's something that probably read real well as a screenplay.  You've got a protagonist who's a well to do good looking lady executive, with a tragic past, and an even more tragic future.  Isn't that always the way though?  Anna Carter, (Kristine Blackport), is head of a richie rich charity board and gives out cash money to worthwhile causes, though you hear her talk about that more than you see her do it, mostly she just flies around the country and talks snotty to her boss.  Actually the flick could have done away with the majority of those scenes, because the real action is around her off the books job as a gun toting lady vengeance. She's the one woman taxi driver weather underground travelling around the country and raining bullets down on the scum to clean up the streets.  It starts off with a bang, she offs a child molester just been sprung from jail, then goes on from there unbottling her genie with the hand gun so to grant other bad folk a Charles Bronson Death Wish.  There's character development scenes around her relationship to her boss and her law clerking best friend, also some ooolala sexy time with a new guy trying to spark a romance, but whatever, because this one is all about the Dirty Harriet action.  Oh yeah, she has cancer in her brain and that's why she decides to do something mean with the rest of her life.

I have to admit I'm a little ashamed for enjoying this.  I like these vengeance flicks though, and I like them even better when it's a woman dealing out the vigilante justice.  It's not that great though, in truth I fast forwarded much of it. It's got some interesting camera work but all told it's not much of a much.  Made the most of a low budget though.  Good job there, James Seale.  I hope you get summat even more pulpier next go round.

Dream Lover

directed by Nicholas Kazan (1993)

I caught this playing about 1/2 way through.  It's an early 90s thriller starring Mädchen Amick and James Spader, but it feels like it was written in the 50's.  It's an old school story, with some ridiculous bits, but overall it's a lot of fun. It's got a Hitchcock feel with the suspense. Spader doesn't get to be weird much in it, as this was back in the days when he was a straight up pretty boy, but he does a good job.  So does Amick with the femme fatale role.

Mädchen Amick is lying to her husband about her past and James Spader gradually twigs to the fact that his wife is not who she says she is.  He finally confronts her with proof of her lies when he tracks down her parents and brings them home.  The scene when he bugged eyed watches her reaction is priceless.  I missed the beginning where they get together, but I didn't really mind because I think the best part of the movie is probably the cat and mouse gamesmanship.  It's a gas....light.

Bonus: there's some crazy carnival dream segments that would make David Lynch proud.

 

It's all on youtube, so I'm gonna watch what I missed.  James Spader and Mädchen Amick are both looking gorgeous in this, so I expect there will be some steamy seduction scenes.

Amick - "Getting to know someone is like peeling an onion.

Spader - "It makes you cry?