Aaron McMullan

Aaron McMullan

Favorite films

  • Amityville II: The Possession
  • Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
  • Skinamarink
  • Ed Wood

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

  • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    ★★★★★

  • Presence

  • Conspiracy Theory

    ★★★

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★

    Slightly better than the eerily similar Smile 2, which is just as bad but also a fair bit worse. Slightly better because it was undeniably a lot of fun at times, watching Brundlemoore farting out guts in different Rooms 2001. But for the most part I felt like I was watching nothing more substantial than the dire results of a telepod mishap saw a bunch of incel revenge fantasies merged with a third of Under The Skin.

  • Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

    Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

    ★★★★

    As freaky as it is derivative and believe you me when I tell you that there isn't a thing in the whole damn thing wasn't a thing in some other thing first. But did I grip hold the edge of stuff and suck the air into me more times than enough, even times when the thing it was doing was as daft as two wooden bollocks on a bee? Yes I did do those things those many times regardless.

    As these sorts of numbers go, this is quare old steam and better craic than most. That's what I have to say about Asylums Ghost Adventure.

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★★★

    One of the rare ultra-hyped weirdo horrors that absolutely did the job for me. If the job was to carry on like a peak-period Coen Brothers film made sit in front of a mirror saying the Lord's Prayer backwards until it starts coming out in hellsweat and devil drones. Weird and perverse and uncanny and bizarre and not at all right. It made me laugh out loud and shiver all through my soul at the same time more times than enough. Absolutely loved it.

  • American Fiction

    American Fiction

    ★★½

    I enjoyed this for the most part but it's hard to be too enthusiastic about something that feels this much like someone taking so long to think of something worthwhile to add to a conversation that by the time they come back into the room to say it, it has already been said a hundred times and the conversation has moved on so much since that person left the room to think about it that it just feels redundant at…

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