Alien: Romulus is an excellent example of a studio having no bottle. You can see how much some of the creative team respect the subtlety of Alien 1, but instead of understanding why that movie works so well (hint: its through building tension through slow terror) it instead spunks its load maybe 45 minutes in and becomes an absolute mess of poorly shot action and jumpscares with Marvel-level dialogue. I saw Coffee describe this as less of a movie as…
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The Shining 1980
Never saw before and got the chance to see it in 35mm. Can't really add anything that hasn't already been said other than Shelly Duval didn't deserve the hate I think she did a good job
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The Iron Claw 2023
A rare one I'm going to write an actually serious review for cause I have a lot to say.
A lot has been said about the 'movie biopic' genre that we are currently seeing become an incredibly saturated market. Bohemian Rhapsody was pretty rightly lambasted as the most cookie cutter formulaic example of the genre, and even since then we've seen biopics of Elton John, Elvis Presley, Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Enzo Ferrari, Air Jordans, Blackberry, the list goes on.…
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American Fiction 2023
I could watch Jeffery Wright pretend to be hood to white people for hours
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