THEKNEEJERKREACTION’s Favourite 100 Movies

We all have our…things, right? Those passions and hobbies that, theoretically, keep us going (and sane) through this crazy world. Two of mine, as an astute observer of this blog might note, are writing and movies. To say that one didn’t influence the other, and vice versa, would be complete bullshit, as my love of […]

A Revisit: Wild at Heart (1990)

David Lynch. Love him or loathe him, you have to admit that the man most certainly had his own style that he, mercifully, had not readily compromised in all his years as a prolific and highly esoteric filmmaker. His key titles are predominately dark, absurd, violent and erotic, always with a sly and subversive sense […]

A Revisit: Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

In the way back years of 2007-2011, I was a film revisor at a company in Vancouver BC called Technicolor Cinema Distribution and during my tenure there, this admittedly absurd and right-to-the-fucking-point titled flick came through my revising workspace, mildly intriguing me with it’s hefty marketing campaign and why-the-hell-not premise. While I didn’t end up […]

The Post (2017)

In my near half century on this small blue world of ours (damn, that’s depressing to see in writing), I’ve come to realize that there are three tiers, when it comes to the work of one of the finest filmmakers who’s ever lived – Steven Spielberg. In the top level, Tier One, you have most […]