Even as such a massive fan of all things Lynch I'd had the pleasure of taking in, I had never seen ERASERHEAD (or ELEPHANT MAN or INLAND EMPIRE for that matter) until today. I think more than anything it was the thought that once I had seen all his films, I wouldn't be able to experience them for the first time ever again. I'm well aware that the art he made is the exact type of art that changes and…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE was my first time back in the theater since March of 2019 and it was also my first Cronenberg on the big screen. Oh, how I missed it.
Anyway, the movie's fantastic. I'd purposely read nothing on it to go in cold and I have a lot of thoughts, many of which have probably already been written more eloquently by more astute viewers so forgive me if my takeaways are redundant. But to me this is…
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The Mothman Prophecies 2002
THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES is an interesting one for me. I am unbelievably predisposed to engage with something that revolves around a cryptid-based metaphysical conspiracy and the formal idiosyncrasies director Mark Pellington employs make for some truly next-level vibes. On the other hand, I tend to have little patience for something with absolute zero levity (especially when it runs two hours) and I don't find Richard Gere as compelling an actor as most.
But the good here is so good that…
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The Last Stop in Yuma County 2023
One of those rock-solid clockwork potboilers we don't really get all too often anymore (or at least to this high of quality), LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY feels more than anything else like a "look what I can do" style exercise for writer/director/editor Francis Galluppi and, in that respect, it's a showstopper. There's a deeply felt love for international 70s genre cinema here, even down to the opening theme feeling ripped straight out of some Guido and Maurizio de Angelis…
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Us 2019
Apocalyptic Duality.
Jordan Peele is a master filmmaker, in every sense of the term. His writing is dense, filled to the gills with breadcrumbs and double entendre. Yet, somehow it's also light and always entertaining. His direction is steady, unrushed. Yet, his calculated pacing and knack for musical cues lend an air of almost Amblin-esque charm to everything he touches. I'm unsure of his exact technique for working with actors, but damned if every single performer we see isn't perfectly…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Not at all what I had expected from three decades of build-up with having only seen the few clips of this that invariably end up on any "cinematic greatest hits" montage; it's less fun, more lyrical, and generally a different beast than I had come to expect from watching mostly later-career Spielberg growing up. This isn't to say that this film doesn't feel like his work (it has all the character touchstones we've come to expect), it's just riding a…
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