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Blake Davis

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:: I grew up here in Oklahoma City, was accepted to NYU Film School but couldn't afford it, so I went to school at the University of Colorado in Boulder on a scholarship. Have worked for several movie studios and done a little modeling, and through it all, have continued writing movie reviews (I've been doing it for newspapers and magazines since I was 11 years-old). Am currently finishing my first book.
Favorites:: Pauline Kael once said that great movies are rarely perfect movies, and the movies we tend to watch over and over and grow to love are even less perfect, I've discovered. The ones that continue to get me are: Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, Running On Empty, Aliens (directed by James Cameron), Bull Durham, Dazed and Confused, Wonder Boys, Almost Famous, Evil Dead 2 and almost anything by David Lynch. Paul Thomas Anderson has kicked my butt in the last few years. And I think I like Election more each time I watch it.
Publications:: KFOR Channel 4 News

Total Reviews:: 148
Total QuickRatings:: 108

Location:: Oklahoma City

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	54%	Basic Instinct (1992)	" Another over the top classic from Paul Verhoeven." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 14, 2005
3/5	33%	Breakin' (Breakdance: The Movie) (1984)	" When I was ten, I thought it was the coolest movie I'd ever seen." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 14, 2005
2/5	8%	Jack Frost (1996)	" There's a scene with a carrot in this one that I believe is a first." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 14, 2005
3/5	——	Of Unknown Origin (1983)	" An intelligent overlooked horror film about writer's block." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 14, 2005
4/5	95%	Suspiria (1977)	" A get-under-your-skin makes no sense classic with some of the scariest images ever put on film." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 14, 2005
4/5	47%	Prince of Darkness (1987)	" One of John Carpenter's most underrated films, gory, grim and good." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 14, 2005
4/5	71%	The Dark Crystal (1982)	" A leap into the darker side of Jim Henson's imagination, a wonderful movie." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Mar 27, 2004
4/5	83%	Gremlins (1984)	" Joe Dante's most successful film, like William Castle crossed with Looney Tunes." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Mar 27, 2004
5/5	92%	Blade Runner (1982)	" Visually stunning detective story, and a defining work of science fiction." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Mar 27, 2004
4/5	63%	Home for the Holidays (1995)	" Jodie Foster follows up her directing debut with this underrated, intelligent comedy." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Mar 27, 2004
	49%	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	" The entire event is gut-wrenching, but Mel Gibson makes a movie that gives you the guts without the wrench. His Jesus is a whipping post." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Mar 27, 2004
3/5	33%	Phantasm II (2000)	" A silly piece of gross-out joy from the imaginitive Don Coscarelli." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 27, 2004
5/5	90%	Blow Out (1981)	" Brian DePalma's masterpiece, a wonderful movie." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 27, 2004
2/5	50%	Higher Learning (1994)	" John Singleton at his most pretentious and preachy." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 27, 2004
3/5	55%	Dune (1984)	" A lavish, sci-fi enigma from David Lynch that sticks with you." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 27, 2004
	82%	Monster (2004)	" Watching Monster is to witness a genuine Hollywood moment, one where a single actress with a single performance upsets the equilibrium of the whole town." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jan 27, 2004
3/5	44%	Cutthroat Island (1995)	" A big, cheesy guilty pleasure full of beautiful landscapes and true swashbuckling." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 19, 2003
4/5	61%	The Rocketeer (1991)	" An overlooked classic that is alive with the heroics and nostalgia of big-studio era Hollywood." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 19, 2003
2/5	21%	Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989)	" The only thing worse than letting William Shatner act in a movie is letting William Shatner direct one." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 19, 2003
	94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" This unique series of films has reminded us that it is still possible to change the world, and that it is achieved in simple gestures of belief, love, and personal sacrifice." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 19, 2003
4/5	75%	Sweet Liberty (1986)	" A sweet, funny comedy about the perils of being a writer and making a movie. An underrated charmer." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 15, 2003
5/5	95%	True Believer (1989)	" One of the best courtroom dramas ever made, and a movie that almost nobody knows about. A terrific picture." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 15, 2003
	80%	21 Grams (2003)	" The movie crushes its characters under its foot, then steps back and wants you to look at the mess and admire it." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 15, 2003
4/5	51%	Ghostbusters 2 (1989)	" A loose, assured sequel that has the breezy ambition of simply being fun and likable. And it is." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 15, 2003
	77%	Bad Santa (2003)	" One of the most wonderful pieces of anarchy to come out of Hollywood in years; it has the jittery feel of a movie that's ahead of it's time." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Dec 15, 2003
	97%	Alien (1979)	" A beautiful, quiet, and amazingly poetic film visually that lets its shots linger and build a mood of genuine isolation and dread." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Nov 4, 2003
5/5	100%	Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)	" One of the best documentaries ever made, more fascinating an exploration of obsession than the film it's about." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Nov 4, 2003
4/5	59%	The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987)	" A scary, hallucinogenic and underrated horror movie, and one of Wes Craven's best." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Nov 4, 2003
5/5	96%	Dazed and Confused (1993)	" Maybe the best movie ever made about American teenagers, casual and funny in a totally unique way." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Nov 4, 2003
	36%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)	" Given the opportunity to work with such classic material, all the director manages to do with it is to turn the whole movie into a shallow calling card for his visual skills." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Nov 4, 2003
4/5	91%	The Breakfast Club (1985)	" A teen classic and one of the holy five John Hughes films from the 80's." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Oct 7, 2003
	95%	Lost In Translation (2003)	" Before you know it, Sophia Coppola has wrapped you in a warm, fluffy blanket and you'll find yourself looking out the window wondering about what's going to happen with your life." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Oct 7, 2003
4/5	71%	Back to the Beach (1987)	" A bouncy, high-energy spoof and one of the best movie musicals of the last couple of decades." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Oct 7, 2003
	40%	Anything Else (2003)	" The whole movie feels like a warm-up, a dusting off of cobwebs, like Woody Allen has just woken from a long nap and is finally ready to get back to work." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Oct 7, 2003
4/5	73%	Stormy Monday (1988)	" A strong exercise in mood early in Mike Figgis's career." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Oct 7, 2003
	82%	Thirteen (2003)	" It's a two-hour gut-wrench that just keeps tightening, and ends in a place that doesn't make you feel much better, like watching an after-school special gone horribly wrong." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Oct 7, 2003
3/5	59%	The Blob (1988)	" A fun, cheesy remake from writer Frank Darabont, who gets the tone just right." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
5/5	78%	Mystic Pizza (1988)	" One of the most charming coming of age movies ever made." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
2/5	42%	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Freddy's Revenge (1985)	" Maybe the weakest entry in the popular series of movies." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
3/5	90%	The Return of the Living Dead (1985)	" A funny, gore-spattered homage." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
3/5	86%	The Stepfather (1987)	" An inventive, overlooked, classic slasher film from the 80's." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
	41%	Freddy vs. Jason (2003)	" Played for laughs, the two horror icons have been castrated. No longer scary, they're like a Las Vegas lounge act, sandwiched somewhere between Celine Dion and Debbie Reynolds on the strip." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
3/5	50%	Black Widow (1987)	" A smart, twisty, stylish thriller with a good Debra Winger performance." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
3/5	77%	Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)	" A smart self-referential horror movie that plays the references for scares, not laughs." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
	69%	Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)	" It's a great, swirling action movie, but it's so heavy on plot twists and characters that the whole thing feels like a delirious jumble." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Sep 12, 2003
4/5	86%	Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)	" One of Francis Ford Coppola's great movies that slipped through the cracks in the late 80's." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jul 14, 2003
4/5	95%	Red Rock West (1999)	" A great example of western film noir from director John Dahl, a modern day master of these types of films." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jul 14, 2003
3/5	56%	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master (1988)	" A good sequel in the series directed by trash auteur Renny Harlin with just the right flair." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jul 14, 2003
4/5	64%	The Frighteners (1996)	" An incredibly underrated scare-comedy from Peter Jackson that deserves a much wider audience." — KFOR Channel 4 News Posted Jul 14, 2003

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