It’s as if Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Deep Rising, Van Helsing) collaborated with John Carpenter (The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Starman) on a pulp story straight out of Weird Tales (Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Clark Ashton Smith) and I mean that as a high compliment. Went in cold, didn’t know anything about it and I had a blast. It’s not a serious movie but it knows that. It’s a B movie with A entertainment. Sometimes you just want something fun. This was that.
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Memoir of a Snail 2024
I thought the writer/director’s previous film Mary and Max was one of the best films I’ve seen in a decade. Well more than a decade later he delivers a film that’s somehow even better and that film was essentially perfect. What an incredible movie!
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Poor Things 2023
First movie I’ve ever walked out of. Only stayed for awhile cause I thought it might redeem itself or get better. It just got worse. So much craft for such a morally revolting story. This is like if Roman Polanski made Frankenstein but somehow even worse than that sounds. I hadn’t watched any trailers or read anything online so I went into this movie not knowing a single thing about it except who directed it. About 15 to 20 minutes…
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Red Dawn 1984
They just don’t make ridiculous right wing fantasy shoot ‘em up movies like they used to. Can I take this movie seriously? No. Because this movie takes itself too seriously? Yes. But was I seriously entertained & amused by the absurdity of it all? Yeah, you betcha. Reagan era Cold War hysteria as an americana action movie where the high school jocks use guerrilla warfare to take on commie Russians and Cubans. As dumb as it sounds but enjoyable in execution.…
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