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My Old Ass 2024
Best film surprise in awhile. A transporting last-summer-before-college comedy of existence, with Maisy Stella as Elliott, the elder teen preparing to leave her (sumptuously idyllic!) lake town for a new life in the city. One night tripping balls with her galpals, she sees a vision of her future: Aubrey Plaza, her 39-year-old self. The time-travel mechanics are pleasantly nonsensical but emotionally meticulous. Young Elliott is bored of her home and optimistic about the boundless horizon; Older Elliott seems as broken…
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Badge 373 1973
Watched this in preparation for Screen Drafts’ Eddie Egan draft. Egan was the true-life cop whose drug bust inspired “The French Connection.” Egan himself acts in this movie, while Robert DuVall plays “Eddie Ryan,” a character inspired by Egan. I’m saying it’s MAXIMUM EGAN. None of the artfulness of William Friedkin, but lately I’m a sucker for any New York ‘70s crime. The plot demonizes Puerto Ricans and sanctifies Eddie’s overt loose-cannon racism, and teases the action lunacy of the…
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The Substance 2024
Hate to say this about any movie, but — it just looks cheap. Half the runtime’s in Demi Moore’s apartment. A TV network building is, like, one studio plus a long corridor. The grand New Year’s Eve finale looks like it was shot in a high school auditorium. I appreciate the reference points — Cronenberg, French Extremity, “Seconds” — and it certainly delivers on GROSS. But at a certain point I felt like Moore was performing less a character than…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
Had to watch something the day David Lynch died and this one was calling to me. For a couple years there I secretly preferred the first act, the whole nonstop Lynchian weirdstuff parade of carcinogenic diner waitresses and omni-wood interiors and the Suth’n way David Bowie says “Judy” and Harry Dean Stanton’s cuppa Good Morning America. But on this viewing, the MOVIE part of the movie really hit me, because on this viewing, I was thinking a lot about death.…
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