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  The Fugitive Kind 1960

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025 2

  JB’s review: 7/10
  “A little bit slow and dramatic.”

  Ohhh just listen to Marlon Brando purr through Williams’ wordy dialogue. Could someone else pull off a line like “Fly away, little bird” with real sensitivity?

  Magnani stays right beside him, so utterly desolate it’s astonishing. Actually, that sort of describes the whole movie—not for everyone.

  But Lumet’s technical skill is still undeniable: the way he slowly unveils every nook, turns verticality into drama, inserts close-ups. But he and Kaufman were…

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  The Passions of Carol 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  When Shaun Costello made The Passions of Carol, nobody believed in him. Inexperienced, overwhelmed, and over-budget, he managed to pull it off—and it was a financial disaster.

  But now I get to watch a scrappy porn satire of A Christmas Carol on blu-ray, so it ended up being worth it. The crass re-interpretation of Dickens is the main draw; the cocks are huge, but the sex is dull. Except for that one scene with the doll arm…eyebrow-raising.

Popular reviews

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  This House Has People in It 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2020 3

  So, I watched this 11-minute short, then immediately watched this 100-minute analysis on YouTube.

  The bottom line is This House Has People In It is less of a short film and more of a web of creepy websites, pictures, databases, emails, and videos, and you'd really be missing the point of the short if you didn't explore any of it.

  It's like a creepypasta short. While I wouldn't want this to be a trend, I do think it's an incredibly…

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 26 May 2022

  This is something else, even for Cronenberg. Meditative and melancholy with a dark dose of kitsch, story takes a backseat to a weird array of characters discussing Cronenberg’s typical obsessions.

  But even with a danger of coming across too directly, beneath the skin Cronenberg examines himself through Tenser; afraid of the evolution of modern horror, the film regresses, mixing devolving technology with new bodies. (The title is the same as one of his earliest films after all.)

  Crimes of the…