“Who's got no rizz now?”
Eat your heart out Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; this is the real best animated film of 2023 with comic book-inspired style animation! After years of not caring for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and after marathoning a good portion of the movies, I can finally say I saw something that lives up to the concept’s potential.
I hope that older fans aren’t off-put by the movie, as it is the first to truly embrace the…
"The world is changing. Truth is vanishing."
Not only am I lucky that I got to see this a week early at my first local theater prescreening in over five years, but I'm incredibly lucky that it was in IMAX. I'm fortunate because, like the last few entries, this was fucking amazing. Apparently, with an estimated budget of $290 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made, and it shows. Just after this, my wife and I…
“Don't hesitate... because your time is prescribed.”
It’s been a long time coming. Finally, we get a Saw movie with John Kramer upfront and center. But at what cost? Since he was milked of every possible involvement after his cancer diagnosis in Saw IV, V, VI, VII, and Jigsaw after killing him off in Saw III, there’s nothing they could do to bring him back short of jumping the shark and going supernatural. So they opted to muddy the waters of…
"You will always be a priest, Father Merrin. Only your faith can save you."
The studio was horrified by Paul Schrader's final cut of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, and this is the retooled effort. It's often regarded as a studio horror movie void of any creativity by corporate shills like director Renny Harlin and writer Alexi Hawley. Having now seen it in its entirety, I'll admit that studio genericness runs rampant in this version. To that effect, it has…
"What the fuck?! This isn't real. This isn't real. This isn't real."
TMDB has a vendetta against short films or miniseries that are only released on YouTube or films that are simply student films without festival showings. Letterboxd sources their catalog from TMDB so that is why this keeps getting removed. I have been involved in many arguments with those gatekeeping cinema over on that website. That being said, this will be removed eventually. I will keep a record of…
“My head is raining.”
The trailer evoked the aesthetic of the original Hills Have Eyes and Wolf Creek reimagined as The Blair Witch Project. The actual film is just half of a generic found footage film and half of an acid trip— and not in a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas kind of way— full sound design flexes and random horror images masquerading as cosmic horror. Suffice it to say, I just didn’t click or vibe with this film.…
