Crazy how I’ll rate this so low despite being beautifully shot, performed by a fantastic cast, with nothing short of brilliantly immersive set and costume work and AND being narratively based around one of my most treasured pet interests (The Manson Family). Yet, while it’s all very interesting, meditating on the way America and Hollywood was changing in the late 1960s, it collapses when the storyline converges. When we see the Manson kids show up on Cielo Drive, in order…
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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005
Laughing, crying - nay - SOBBING.
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American Psycho 2000
I first saw this film when I was a teenager, soon after it came out. My mother and I watched it on TV because we thought "oh, it's got that chap from "Newsies" (Ortega, 1992), that'll be fun!"
Well, it was. It became my favorite movie, and still is.
It was fun and it did really contribute to shaping my perspective on life, art, music, and cinema. Probably also my sense of humor.Don't get me wrong, this is a…
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Annabelle Comes Home 2019
Another entry in my Conjuring Universe chronological watch!
This is a fuckin' grab bag of a movie. A truly postmodern attempt to squeeze as much as possible into a relatively modest runtime.
Here are some things I loved:
Visually, the tension rises through the film. As more and more leaks out of the Warren's secure room of haunted objects (watch this and then go and watch Ed's tour of the "museum" on YouTube, and appreciate how hard the set designers…Translated from by
