Hops on the Hereditary bandwagon quite a few years too late and without understanding what made it work. Soderbergh has no knack for horror, so everything that supercharged Aster's family drama to an infernal degree is replaced with Scooby-Doo level poltergeist "scares", and what's left is a half-hearted meditation on grief and a disinterested voyeuristic observation of dysfunctional family dynamics. The ghost POV gimmick doesn't bring anything particular to the table either, as the ghost just happens to have the…
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The Shadow Strays 2024
It's a shame that this was one of those anonymous Netflix drops with zero promotion, because it's probably Timo's finest work to date, and it deserved to be celebrated as one of the best genre films of last year. Incredibly grimy, gory, and dark action filled with ninjas, exploding heads, sleazy villains, and gun-fu dances. An unflinching, unrelenting, blood-soaked fist in the face of corruption, and one of the most punk rock films I've seen in years. The worldbuilding and…
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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place 2011
Hopefully one day a genius editor will make a new psychedelic "Diaries, Notes, and Sketches" out of Pranksters' 40+ hours of footage: raw parts of their movie that made it to Magic Trip look very promising. The current creative team, however, decided to patch it all together with a bunch of outisde narrative elements that rarely work and sometimes annoy much more than they should. Some of the psychedelic animations are nice, but most of the present day interviews and…
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