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Last four logged: a couple of real gross shorts. Tai Kato's interpretation of a classic ghost story. Lovecraft horror starring Dean Stockwell.
Last four logged: really embarrassing nonsense, devoid of any voice or originality. It's safe to say I'm not the target audience for the work of Marina de Van.
I am not at Emerald City, and I've never wanted to be there more
Logging for the new year: Park's latest is a little bit De Palma, a lotta bit Coen Bros. Some low budget regional Yeti horror. Jeon Do-yeon is incredible in Lee Chang-dong's melodrama about the limits of faith and forgiveness. Middle-school BEAU TRAVAIL.
The final four of my 2025: Mickey Rooney party crashes the Silent Night, Deadly Night series. A couple of J-horror also-rans. One of Linnea Quigley's crowning achievements and a perfect way to ring in a new year.
Last four logged: if you think you're too good for HOME ALONE you can go and fuck yourself. One of Kore-Eda's best. Two seasonal sequels.
Videodrome reference, hell yeah Jane
Of course his full name was Frankenstein'sagar Monsteragon
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Last four logged: one of the most psychotic things I've ever seen in my life if we're being perfectly honest, no matter the holiday. Three from Charles Burnett.
HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest
BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my
BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.
Next four: Insect politics. My flower in your barrel hasn't stopped the slaughter yet. To die and live in Los Angeles. Everybody wants some.
Last four: another notch in Samara Weaving's Final Girl belt. Josh Safdie takes post-war assimilation anxiety to the next level. Wim Wenders pays his respects to Ozu. As shocked as anybody to report how taken I was with Craig Brewer's melodramatic Neil Diamond cover band movie
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Still unsure what everybody's deal is with Emerald Fennell, normies don't seem to care but I've never seen the internet be more hateful to a female director. All over a book that, to put it as diplomatically as possible, sucks fucking ass.
Homie is ducking through door frames, hulking in the shadows, towering over his co-stars. Started to percolate in my brain during Frankenstein but now I'm sure: he's got big movie star energy right now, but you can tell he's really gonna age into a magnificent character actor.
Not the first one to say this but the closest comparison I can make is ROMEO + JULIET. Not just stylistically but also the star power of our two leads. Colossal chemistry, hella kissin'. A+ kiss movie over here. Nobody's ever known better what to do with Elordi.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS: surprised as anybody to report that I kinda fucked with it! All artifice and melodrama with zero subtlety, while being both extremely earnest and unironically funny, qualities very much lacking in most modern romance. Linus Sandgren shoots the hell outta this.
Last four logged: affecting little dramatic short. A little Lonergan, a little Ozu. 100% without question would risk it all for Varang.
Numan doing Down In The Park in Urgh! A Music War one of the greatest performances of all time
Logging through it: Wry early film from Sarah Jacobson. Final flick in Radiance's Corneau box set features a manic Depardieu. Reichardt's Certain Women is slow, still, and perfectly measured. Kore-Eda goes procedural.
Do I have to pretend to like 3 doors down now?
Next four: all-timer shitty guy in Corneau's Jim Thompson adaptation. Delightful, cozy Powell + Pressburger set in the Hebrides. Toni Servillo once again Sorrentino's secret weapon. Everything about Sarah Jacobson's biggest/best picture reminds me of making movies with friends.
Last four logged: the Alain Corneau box set from Radiance has some gems, including this filthy cop thriller. Jessie Buckley pretty much has that Oscar on lock. Marlon Wayans and a surprise Heidecker really the only redeeming factor of HIM. Wagner Moura is 100% fully my guy now.
🚨 To Live and Die in LA is streaming on a bunch of platforms right now: the Criterion Channel, Tubi, & Pluto TV. could not recommend it more
Feeling extremely insulted by the autistic-coded sentient hologram character in Starfleet Academy, it's never been more embarrassing to be a Trek fan, really
Last four: Flynn trades in his tough guys for lil Eddie Furlong in something like if Neuromancer met EC Comics. Zombie nonsense with historic pedigree, lame kills and a lot of tits (derogatory). Joachim Trier's tremendous new flick. An audacious epic shown in its ideal format.
I have also been doing this. I'm not a ski jumper but I do like the idea of flying farther
Last four, marathon edition: a sublimely perfect bad movie. If Abel Ferrara saw FADE TO BLACK or VIDEODROME and then huffed a bunch of ether. Trashy euro-horror with a cenobite-worthy final ten minutes. Rural slasher with great kills, zero tits (complimentary)
