Will Menaker

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Favorite films

  • Body Double
  • Escape from New York
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Great Escape

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  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

    ★★★½

  • Gladiator II

    ★★

  • Bad Santa

    ★★★★½

  • Carry-On

    ★★½

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  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

    Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

    ★★★½

    Going on a hunger strike until I can see chapters 2-5 of this. I've seen people call this a self-indulgent vanity project and I say good! Indulge away! Give me something big and vain and personal! Honestly, big respect to Costner for doing a grand Western epic with three or four semi connected plot lines, none of which pay off in this first chapter, but I want to keep watching and find out if any of these settlers found their new Jerusalem. It looks gorgeous and plus it has Michael Rooker, Will Patton and Jeff Fahey, which is good enough for me.

  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★

    City of Rome? More like the City of ZONE (Out).

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  • Psycho

    Psycho

    ★★★★★

    Before the Janet Leigh shower scene, no one in America knew what a naked woman's body looked like, in fact, most women didn't even know you were supposed to be nude to bathe. Hitchcock's suggestion of nudity on film and frank depiction of sex outside of wedlock created horniness for the first time in our history. Hitchcock got everyone sprung before immediately showing the most brutal murder that had ever been depicted in art. The juxtaposition of these two heretofore…

  • Cure

    Cure

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    "I was once full, but what was inside me is outside now,” A former psychology student obsessed with mesmerism, turned amnesiac gets a series of totally normal and sane people to commit murder simply by confounding them by not answering their questions, talking in circles, smoking a cigarette and asking them "who are you? Tell me about yourself." If this was just a movie about serial murder via hypnotism it wouldn't be one of my all time favorites, but Kurosawa…

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