Suffice it to say I was not expecting to see a laser shoot-out in front of an H&R Block.
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Masters of the Universe (1987)
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Immaculate (2024)
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A dopey premise with a lousy script.
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The Boy and the Heron (2023)
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Dark Passage (1947)
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Trippy!
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
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I also saw this in the theater when it came out, and had about the same impression this time. The slow unraveling of the mystery in the first two acts is great; the final act dropped all the cleverness in favor of ghastly jump scares. Which is fine enough!, but meant that it felt like all the stuff it had going for it in the beginning just kind of petered out.
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Days of Heaven (1978)
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The brownest movie I’ve ever seen. Four stars.
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Riddle of Fire (2024)
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I can’t overstate how much I adored this movie. It’s like watching a magic trick. There are so many ways it could have gone awry — tonally, stylistically — but it never does.
It’s one of those movies you would expect to walk away from thinking, “I see what they were going for, but they just didn’t pull it off.”
Riddle of Fire pulls it off.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
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I’d never seen this movie before and I have to admit I had no idea the title was a metaphor. I had pictured a Hitchcock-like twist where a number of rings is the giveaway to some clue. Nope!
Saw this on 35mm which is always a treat. Lots of surprising unpredictable twists to the story. Hume Cronyn as the manipulative lawyer Keats was great.
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Arthur (1981)
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What can you say about “Arthur”?
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Nathair – Gilera (2023)
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I have to resist making excuses for this. Yes I love this because it sounds like it was recorded in a basement, OK?
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Nowhere (1997)
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This movie blew my mind. I’m embarrassed not to have heard of Gregg Araki. It has 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is…maybe understandable? But I can’t recommend it enough.
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The Fall Guy (2024)
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This was fun. I can’t help but love Ryan Gosling (“The Goz”). Some good laughs, though the story was a bit convoluted and messy and the romantic tension not entirely earned.
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Perfect Days (2023)
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13 Ghosts (1960)
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Caught this on Svengoolie.
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Dune: Part Two (2024)
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I just can’t get terribly worked up about these movies. This was fine. I’m just not sure the Dune books benefit from being put onto a screen.
Chalamet is adequate, but he’s distractingly beautiful and his face just doesn’t scream “inner turmoil” to me.
Also for as long as this movie was, it still felt kind of rushed, cramming in all the necessary plot points.
I’ve never been like a “Dune guy” but I for sure enjoyed the book more. I’ll have to read “Messiah” before that movie comes out now.
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Shira Small – The Line of Time and the Plane of Now (1974)
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I love this! I’ve been listening to it all week. This is “outsider music” but is by no means best enjoyed ironically. Some great stuff in here, and such a time capsule of its era. You could try to make something that sounded like this today, but you’d fail.
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Tell Me an Ending (Jo Harkin, 2022)
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American Fiction (2023)
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The Hacienda (Isabel Cañas, 2022)
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Silver Nitrate (Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2023)
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I was intrigued by this Lovecraftian premise, but the execution didn’t quite work, I felt.