Wes Edwards

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Favorite films

  • Blazing Saddles
  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • The Children Are Watching Us
  • Nuts in May

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  • The Faculty

    ★★★

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    ★★★★

  • The Outfit

    ★★★½

  • The Long Voyage Home

    ★★★½

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  • The Lighthouse of the Orcas

    The Lighthouse of the Orcas

    ★★★★

    A movie from the end of the world.

    Not that kind–from the far end of South America–the rugged remote coast of Patagonia, 800 miles south of Buenos Aires.

    There aren’t many people: This place is for sheep, guanacos, sea lions and whales.

    The last of these draw Lola (Maribel Verdu) and her young son Tristan (Joaquin Rapalini) there from Spain. Tristan has autism and he has expressed emotions just once, when he reacted to photographs of the orcas that swim…

  • Cisco Pike

    Cisco Pike

    ★★★★

    Kris Kristofferson died in September at age 88.

    Quite a guy.

    If you don't know about him, or know him only from Blade, take the time.

    Movies were just a small part of his life - In it Kristofferson alternately kicked ass or got kicked. He put it all in his music–writing some of the finest songs of his generation.

    Kristofferson was already in his mid-thirties when he played his first big movie role - Cisco Pike in 1972. He…

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  • The Faculty

    The Faculty

    ★★★

    The Faculty is the horror movie John Hughes never made. Every archetypal teen character is here, on a familiar high-school battlefield, where adolescent dreams smack into the realpolitik of social status.

    It's tough enough without an alien invasion.

    Resetting Invasion of the Body Snatchers at a dismal Ohio high school was an inspired idea. Kevin Williamson, who wrote the story, does not have the same spirit as Hughes, but he understands the setting in a similar way. He gets the…

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    ★★★★

    This movie never seems to get all the praise it deserves. It was one of the big Hollywood productions of the 1970s and it delivered plenty of only-in-the-movies thrills. It is so well-made that you fall right into its preposterous concept–which doesn’t feel all that preposterous after a while.

    The great cast helps: world-class freak-out artist Veronica Cartwright doing her thing, Leonard Nimoy looking both shady and dapper playing a psychiatrist, young Jeff Goldblum being young Jeff Goldblum. (He's exactly…

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  • Hereditary

    Hereditary

    ★½

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

    I had an unusual reaction to this movie. Annoyance.

    The filmmakers show enormous technical and creative skill. This is a well-crafted movie, with command of tone and story from the first frame to the last. No shot is wasted.

    But about that story... What is its message? In particular, how is this film describing or commenting on mental illness? Horror films often use mental illness as a thematic or character point. It’s a trope. In fact, it is so routine…

  • The Outfit

    The Outfit

    ★★★½

    Nobody does it like Robert Duvall. He doesn't need a lot of dialogue. In many performances, his best moments are wordless reaction shots. The camera picks up the liveness in his face and we seem to read his mind.

    We get to know his characters little by little, from the inside out. Duvall doesn't use grand gestures to do the work. Instead he embodies the character fully, scene by scene. His discipline and consistency create an honest depiction. Duvall's characters…

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