Monday, January 13, 2014

FOUR FILMS - GOOD OL' FREDA, RAZE, HERE COMES THE DEVIL, AMERICAN HUSTLE

GOOD OL' FREDA

No great Beatles insights but an extremely warm witness to history documentary about The Beatles secretary and fan club president, Freda Kelly.  The most interesting part was the relationship between The Beatles and their growing fan base in the early 60’s.  Lovingly chronicled, an enjoyable film.



RAZE

If you enjoy women beating the crap out of each other than this film is for you.  The fight scenes are well-choreographed, the set-up is handled well, the whole thing is paced competently leading to a satisfactory if downbeat conclusion.  The unpleasantness level is high which puts off the notion of repeat viewings.  Sherilyn Fenn has not aged well.



HERE COMES THE DEVIL

The ferocious and tense and highly imaginative first 20 minutes of this Spanish horror film unfortunately gives way to a predictable minor league PET SEMETARY storyline.  A lesser horror film.



AMERICAN HUSTLE

The phrase “style over substance” was made for this film.  Excellent care was taken with the 1970’s setting, the clothes, Christian Bale’s combover, Bradley Cooper’s beard but the end result is really a nothing film – no interesting characters, clichéd action, dull convoluted story.  Don't quite understand how their semi-fictionalized version of the ABSCAM scam figured into the overall film.  


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