The Vast of Night: A Mark Bousquet Review

Balder bless filmmakers who know how to make a 90-minute movie. Seems like everything these days is a 2 hour and 45 minute epic, and that’s fine, but sometimes I just want to watch a movie that’s not going to involve hitting pause so I can take the dog out. With THE VAST OF NIGHT […]

Soylent Green: A Mark Bousquet Review

I’ve never watched SOYLENT GREEN because I know how it ends. Dumb. If you are like me and have avoided watching the movie because you know the big twist (which I won’t give away on the odd chance you’ve never heard of the film), rectify that mistake. Because while I knew where SOYLENT ended up, […]

Point Blank: A Mark Bousquet Review

An intense meditation on manhood and loneliness, POINT BLANK is a stylish thriller directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin. An adaptation of Donald Westlake’s first Parker novel, The Hunter, Marvin growls and stares and sulks his way through one of his best pictures. Walker (renamed from the novel) is tough guy criminal who’s […]

The Ninth Configuration: A Mark Bousquet Review

If you like movies, go watch THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. (It’s streaming on Prime.) I almost don’t want to say anything about it because it’s such a unique film. It’s brilliant and terrible and confused and purposeful. It’s a mess and it always knows what it is. Things happen that have no bearing on anything else, […]

Logan’s Run: A Mark Bousquet Review

Come for the set designs, stick around for the costumes, marvel at how the power of Farrah Fawcett’s feathered hairstyle is impervious to the passing of centuries, and do your best to ignore everything else. LOGAN’S RUN is never better than an okay, but is nonetheless so 1970s it is well worth a watch. It […]

The Lighthouse: A Mark Bousquet Review

Directed by Robert Eggers Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson I always feel a bit of pressure to give a film like THE LIGHTHOUSE a better rating. No, not because I once planned to write a book (or maybe I did …?) way back in the MV1 days called THE LIGHTHOUSE, but because we need […]

The Long Goodbye: A Mark Bousquet Review

When I watched the clumsy SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL last week or so, I made the point that altering source material is not an automatic reason for me to dislike a movie. SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL isn’t mediocre because it changed almost all of Ace Atkins novel or gutted all the heart and charm from Robert Parker’s characters, or […]

Godzilla Vs. SpaceGodzilla: A Mark Bousquet Review

1994 Toho Pictures Directed by Kensho Yamashita Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Hiroshi Kashiwabara If a seven-year old offered to make you dinner, you might well end up with a meal the equivalent of GODZILLA VS. SPACEGODZILLA: it’s got too many ingredients, it’s not made particularly well, and even though it checks all the […]

Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II: A Mark Bousquet Review

1993 Toho Pictures Directed by Takao Okawara Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Wataru Mimura Godzilla movies are about a big monster causing massive destruction, and yet the first 19 films largely feel almost intimate to me. Perhaps it’s a result of Godzilla being a dude in a rubber suit, or perhaps it’s because […]

Godzilla and Mothra: A Mark Bousquet Review

1992 Toho Pictures Directed by Takao Okawara Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Kazuki Ōmori I have not watched all of the Godzilla movies, but I’ve watched most of them, and this is the first time I watched a Godzilla film and found myself wishing for the human scenes to last longer and the kaiju […]