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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2024

  A truly wonderful date night movie.

  From side-splitting satire to gut-wrenching gore, this one’s got it all! Definitely felt like I was being spoon-fed a bit at points, but it was all done with such style that I didn’t care.

  “You can’t escape from yourself.”

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  Memories of Murder 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2024

  Don’t even know what to say about this one. I now understand why people consider this director Bong’s magnum opus. This film has so much to say about power, corruption, and human nature as a whole. Need a rewatch asap.

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2022 7

  I feel like I can smell this movie. The sound design and score are absolutely inhuman. The craft that went into this film, from the human/animal skeletal folk art, to Leatherface’s multiple costumes, really gives it an indelible texture. The simultaneously crude and ornate nature of the family’s “work” comes across incredibly naturalistic, the type of thing that if not handled correctly, could easily fall into contrived pretension. My very high expectations going into this first viewing were justified.

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  Pig 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Aug 2021 2

  What’s in a name? A lot, apparently.

  This movie is a brilliant meditation on grief, and the senses that tie themselves to our memories. Nic Cage is amazing here, and Alex Wolff is pretty great as well. Definitely going to be rewatching this before the year is over.