
Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is the best kind of failure, impassioned and singular, but it's a failure all the same— glacially paced, stiffly acted, shapeless, ...
Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is the best kind of failure, impassioned and singular, but it's a failure all the same— glacially paced, stiffly acted, shapeless, ...
It is also slightly confused, off-handedly comic, and unusually bizarre in the mode of mid-'90s Spike Lee. For his part, Lee has always been a ...
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It's such a great film because it subverts the idea of addiction and loneliness and creates a post-modern treatise that can be read on many levels.
I have to admit though that Bill Gunn had more control over his own material than Lee: the remake is amazingly disjointed and even longer than the original, ...
A remake of Bill Gunn's 1973 independent film “Ganja and Hess,” Lee offers an uncanny analysis of religion, art and sexuality through a story of vampirism and ...
I love the idea of remakes expanding and changing the themes and messages from the original in putting them into context with modern times.
There is an elaborate speech in both Ganja & Hess and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus about the wisdom of dumping certain bodies in certain locations because even if ...
It's a true horror film & tackles the big ideas without didacticism or shallowness. An endlessly fascinating & nutty film that demands a re-watch, even by those ...
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a bold but wildly uneven, bloody mess of a film, sunk in large part by the subpar performances by nearly every major character in ...
There are a couple long sex scenes (both straight and lesbian) and a couple disturbing, gory parts, but I don't think Kelly-Jordan Enterprises ...