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Film critic. Strange Harbors is a site about movies, television, and pop culture. The Strange Harbors Podcast.

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Never expected good news to come this early on Election Day

04.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I did not care for After the Hunt

03.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Voted early for Zohran

27.10.2025 00:11 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wife wanted in on the trend, so here are 5 movies each to get to know us:

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Faves of 2025 so far

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Nosferatu: Always in the bag for Eggers, but this is the first time I felt his slavish devotion to detail obstruct imagination, and ironically, blood in the veins. My wife literally turned to me afterwards and said: “We should’ve just watched Coppola’s Dracula instead.” I agree.

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Happy holidays everyone

28.11.2024 21:50 — 👍 65    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Saw Gladiator 2

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Gladiator 2:

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Wicked: Quite infectious and I liked this much more than I thought I would, mostly because Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo break their backs carrying it, but if you watched this back-to-back with Spielberg’s WSS you would go catatonic. John M. Chu just doesn’t have it.

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Extra thoughts on Juror #2

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Thank you, Tyler, for the kind words!

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You didn’t specify when you mentioned this on the other place and I was so positive that you meant Nosferatu. Now I know.

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Luckily, yes!

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Extra thoughts on Juror #2

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A Different Man: I loved The Substance, but this is the essential self-hatred text of 2024. Effortlessly smart, a movie with a million layers underneath a cruel, nasty joke of getting exactly what you want. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are unbelievable.

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THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

THESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.

14.11.2024 17:47 — 👍 78    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 4

Thanks so much, Daniel!

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Thank you, Sean!

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Thank you, Aaron! I literally think about this movie every day. Loved your episode on Thesis with Pascal, and I’m so stoked to listen to your full Red Rooms take!

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Film Review: Red Rooms — Strange Harbors Digging up turpitude from the deep recesses of dark web opportunism, Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is a serial killer thriller that finds power in its restraint and shocking prescience: an evil — yet vita...

On Red Rooms and our moral stasis

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Juror #2 duty

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Seeing all my old friends on here again

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You can actually feel the computing power sweat bullets as it tries to imitate something real for 15 measly seconds

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Turning over a new leaf on Bluesky by not asking why it looks like that

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Won’t jump to conclusions, but Conan seems to like movies a hell of a lot more than Jimmy.

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Inaugural Bluesky 2024 faves post

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