Buck A Review
(Not as frequent as he’d like) filmmaker Douglas Buck spends a lot of time at the cinema rep house and at home watching old movies. In a new-fangled modern approach to the old index card cataloguing system he used to compulsively follow as a teen, about 4 years ago, Buck started posting a photo or film poster on Facebook for every one of the films he saw. Soon enough, this led to him including the occasional single sentence or brief paragraph write-up. Helped along by the surprise appearance of a small number of seemingly interested thread commenters as well as his own obsessive-compulsive traits, this then (perhaps inevitably) developed into longer form reviews and discussions for each and every one of the films. And here we are. Below will be a mishmash of older entries and current. Feel free to chime in.
The views and opinions expressed in the “Buck a Review” column (and in the comments field) are those of the individual author (or commenter) and not those of Offscreen or any of its partners.
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Rambo III (Peter MacDonald, 1988)
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Cujo (Lewis Teague, 1983)
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Smithereens (Susan Seidelman, 1982)
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Creepshow (George A. Romero, 1982)
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, 1925)
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Burn, Witch, Burn (Sydney Hayers, 1962)
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Secret Rites (Derek Ford, 1971), The Wormwood Star (Curtis Harrington, 1956) and Invocation of my Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969)
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New Year’s Evil (Emmett Alston,1980)
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L’Inferno (Francesco Bertolini/Adolfo Padovan/Giuseppe De Liguoro, 1911) & The Devil’s Cabaret (Nick Grindé, 1930), followed by The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
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La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946)