Tag: John Waters
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This Bonkers John Waters Film Blasted Indie Movies
There are few filmmakers more notorious than John Waters, the sensationally shocking auteur of bad taste and singular vision. While his early films cast an unforgiving light on the people on the fringes of society in America, his work garnered the interest of Hollywood, giving him access to bigger stars and bigger budgets. From this…
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Perpetrator Review: A Trippy Coming-Of-Self Flick Bathed In Blood [Fantasia Fest 2023]
Jennifer Reeder’s “Perpetrator” is a spiritual successor to 2019’s John Waters-y, super-sensory-heightened debut “Knives and Skin,” serving vibes as a main course. That’s not entirely a damning accusation. Reeder’s style provokes delirium and allows her characters to float through hallucinogenic universes, which the filmmaker somehow controls. “Perpetrator” feels indebted to everything from high school humor…
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‘There’s Something About Mary’ Does Something Other Comedies Rarely Do
During a time when R-rated studio comedies were a relic of the past, two sibling writer-directors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, challenged what could be shown inside mainstream movie theaters. In 1998, a film that featured comedic gross-out gags akin to something out of a John Waters film became the third highest-grossing film of the year,…