Spitball Army

rewatched Oct 13, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.5 [blu-ray, Netflix] I’m glad to have not seen this as a pre-teen when it was first released. Yet, it’s been at least 25 years since I did first view it, and the emphasis for me has shifted from the episodic backwoods horror to the moral quandary […]

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watched Oct 13, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.4 [DVD, Netflix] The sea will swallow you whole, says this bleak, grey and miserable little movie, which uses a plaintive and bare minor-key piano & violin score to drive the figurative point home. https://boxd.it/kOtdN

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watched Oct 13, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 4.4 [blu-ray, Netflix] This one was a motley motley, with overall good intentions, and sweet with no ambitious message. Which is to say that it seemed to me like a generally inoffensive TV pilot that never made it to its first season, and was remembered by no one. […]

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