Gonna give this one the light pass for the genuinely very good and creepy murder setpieces which are a harrowing combo of procedural docudrama recreation and blunt proto-slasher brutality complete with the heavy breathing, POV voyeur-stalker imagery, and entire lengthy scenes of bloody victims just being dragged around screaming by a motiveless killer in a mask. It's pretty wild, cold-blooded stuff for 1976 and I think this would be remembered a lot more fondly if it had more of the…
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The Beast 2023
In a letter to fellow writer Morton Fullerton circa. 1900, Henry James famously wrote about the “essential loneliness” of his life, an overwhelming and powerful solitude that he felt more deeply about than even his artistic discipline. Three years later in 1903, he published a novella called The Beast in the Jungle, a work of overwhelmingly tragic, romantic fatalism about a man who lets his life (and romantic interests) pass him by in a petrified state of fear over an…
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The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
Is it possible to frame an entire feature film and hang it on your wall? Have we discovered how to do this? Asking for a friend.
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Wonder Woman 1984 2020
When they said "Wonder Woman 1984" I thought they meant like neon colors and synths but they meant all the horrifying, Reagan-era geopolitics and Middle Eastern stereotypes. Doesn't help that it also looks like shit and has no sense of character or pace. It can't even successfully recreate the clean action or lead chemistry that the first film had let alone attach them to some sort of story. The whole thing just bizarrely lumbers to its 5 minutes of weightless…
