November 1, 2018 “Marfa Girl 2” (* out of four) was a torturous sequel to the equally awful 2012 drama that focuses on an aimless 16-year old (Adam Mediano) who spends his days skateboarding, having sex, arguing with his girlfriend, and thinking about escaping the confines of small-town Texas life. Don’t look for any more plot than that or anything else either. Yet another unwatchable smorgasborg of sex, drugs, and debauchery from director Larry Clark but this makes his 1995 “Kids” look like “Titanic” by comparison. Continue reading →
November 1, 2018 “Hacker’s Game Redux” (** out of four) was a jumbled follow-up to the 2015 melodrama which I don’t think anyone was exactly waiting by their laptops for a sequel to; this time around, a young computer prodigy (Chris Schellenger) is hired to work for a company he previously hacked which are involved in multiple international business dealings. Subsequently, he meets and falls in love with a cyber-detective (Pom Klementieff) who is trying to arrest the same arms dealer with him the computer prodigy’s company is working for. Improvement over the original stalls after a while and loses its way. It’s hard to make a movie about computer hacking when the film material is so hackneyed. Twisted and stylish music score by Fabien Waltmann. Continue reading →
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