An almost perfect horror/thriller lambasting the nuclear family and the patriarchy, marred by a gratuitous nude scene that Jill Schoelen wasn't comfortable doing. The director told her it was important because her character was naked and vulnerable in the shower. Is that why she sensuously slides her robe off and lets it fall to the floor? Instead of just taking it off and hanging it up like a normal person? Also, Schoelen was about 23 when she filmed the scene, but her character is 16. But it isn't a horror movie without T and A, right? Gotta make the Job Bobs of the world happy.
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Beyond the Door 1974
Somebody put Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist in a blender (with most likely copious helpings of cocaine instead of protein powder) and out came this bananas milkshake of a movie. Discomfort meter off the charts when a grown woman kisses a little boy full on the mouth. There's also a foul mouthed little girl who owns twelve copies of Love Story and reads it exclusively. Man perms! Funky jazz score! Exposition dumps! The patriarchy!
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Babylon 2022
Another technically pretty but ultimately hollow Hollywood movie that mythologizes the film industry while all but ignoring its toxicity. The silent, pre-code era was a fascinating time in history, a relative golden age of diverse voices who are only now, a hundred years later, beginning to be heard again. This film barely touches upon these folks, and focuses instead on a Spanish man (Diego Calva) who spends his screen time either doing the bidding of white studio executives (including exiling…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
Meandering pot haze come to life that pretends it’s feminist for a second before deciding in cliché rom-com flourish that a shitty misogynist teenager is the best an idealistic but strange young woman can do.
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