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Nosferatu 2024
A glorious new pinnacle in the Dracula tradition. Visually there are obvious ways that Eggers is indebted to Murnau and Herzog, but be has taken their influence and draped it lavishly in the best that modern filmmaking has to offer. And there is no other director who has so fully translated Stoker’s anxieties about violence (especially of a sexual nature) from a foreign other or his certainty that there are supernatural forces that defy the cold logic of our modern…
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No Holds Barred 1989
If they had cast anyone with an ounce of acting ability instead of the Hulkster this might have actually been a decent movie
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Young and Innocent 1937
Cops riding in a literal pig cart
*chef’s kiss*
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Emperor Jones 1933
The tragedy of Brutus Jones is about the story of a Black man whose ambitions are too great to be realized in the racist, colonial world into which he is born. As Jones sets out into the world he has visions beyond the humble job he has acquired as a porter on a Pullman train-car. But it isn’t long before he finds himself stymied professionally and romantically. Soon enough his ambitions turn to violent greed and he kills one of…
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