Awesome Welles

Favorite films

  • Mean Streets
  • The Lives of Others
  • Dazed and Confused
  • The Wicker Man

All
  • Anomalisa

    ★★★★

  • Psycho

    ★★★½

  • The Big Short

    ★★★★

  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    ★★★

More
Manson

1973

★★ 1

Manson (1973) is a quickie, explotation documentary made only a few of years after the case. The sleazy 1970s voiceover cements the mondo film vibe. There is no footage from the trial nor any interviews with Manson himself. Over-stretched, even at 80 minutes, the film is padded out with scenes of naked hippie chicks covorting in waterfalls etc. The man himself is only glimpsed through the recollections of former cell mates and other drug-addled hangers-on, which lends Manson a grotesquely…

Splash

1984

★★★½ Liked Watched

The orginal "fish out of water comedy"! BOOM!

Thank you very much I'll be here all week, please to tip your waiter!

More
Ghost in the Shell

1995

★★★★★ Liked 7

This cyberpunk classic was a huge influence on both The Matrix (1999) and The Fifth Element (1997), whilst in itself owing no small debt to Blade Runner (1982). Ghost in the Shell is an ode to technology, identity, collective vs. individual consciousness and boobs. Hardly surprising that it blew my mind when I was sixteen.

Pain & Gain

2013

★★½ 17

On the basis of the Transformers films I used to believe that Michael Bay hated women, however having seen this film it turns out he hates people, full-stop.