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Blood Meridian
This film hasn’t been made yet, but I finished the book last night so I’m just gonna give 5 starts anyway cause fuck you.
Here are some facts:
-Judge Holden is one of the scariest/greatest villains in literature and I dreamt last night that he was coming to get me
-Cormac Mcarthy was probably a little insane
-The most sympathetic characters in this still mercilessly scalp innocent people because ‘it’s just something to do’
-A necklace made of human ears is due for a comeback
-If Chamalet gets cast as ‘the kid’ I’ll go out and ‘Luigi’ a CEOTranslated from by
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Nosferatu 2024
I would give this 3 and a half stars if I hadn’t sworn off half stars forever. I consider 4 stars and above to essentially mean that pretty much everything about the film works in its entirety (with 5 stars usually meaning it also had some sort of profound personal impact). And as much as I really want to love this film, I cannot shake the feeling that something about it just didn’t add up for me. There are individual…
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The Substance 2024
Didn’t quite know when to end; perhaps didn’t earn its final minutes when it descended into complete madness, BUT, had me completely and utterly gripped for a good 95% of its run time. Felt like a classic Cronenberg story (using body horror to explore themes of identity and being at war with one’s self) but with as bold and confident a directing style as I have seen. I enjoyed the exploration of the sickness in our culture—especially within the entertainment industry—that fetishises youth and beauty to such a degree that it can force people to both psychology (and in this case physically) split.
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