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Companion 2025
Jack Quaid might be getting typecast as a "Hughie Type", but at least he's good at it.
This film is a fun inversion of some classic genre horror/suspense tropes. I wish I had gone into this one without knowing the early "twist", but it was such a heavy part of the marketing, you kind of couldn't miss it. Sophie Thatcher did a great job, there is some solid camera work, and all the effects shots are pretty subtle but well…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Beautiful animation, solid characters, an engaging fantastical world, and excellent music. This is a great addition to Miyazaki's body of work.
I do think it feels a little clunky in a narrative sense though. I did watch the dub, so maybe the original dialog would have cleared up some of the clunk.
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Blue Velvet 1986
I watched this movie and Mulholland Drive pretty close together the first time round, and I found how weird and also intentional Lynch's style was to be extremely interesting. I originally rated both films 5 starts, because they seem so cohesive unto themselves, and they both provoked a lot of further thought from me. The only Lynch film I had seen previously was Dune, and it wasn't exactly representative of his larger body of work.
On second watch, I'm still…
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Phantasm 1979
This is one of those movies whose central premise is so specific and strange that I'm surprised that it was marketable at all, let alone that it ended up with several sequels. It also belongs to the category "movies that I always saw on the horror section shelves of my local video rental store when I was a kid in the mid nineties", so it has always been a little extra intriguing to me.
The first half of Phantasm is…
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