Joel Hicks

Joel Hicks

Cadaver-Slapstick is my favorite genre.

Favorite films

  • Alien
  • The Straight Story
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Bride of Frankenstein

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  • Murder on the Orient Express

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • Lost Highway

    ★★½

  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★

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  • Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express

    ★★★★

    Maybe the real murder on the Orient Express was the friends we made along the way.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    SO fun! Visually stunning (especially in IMAX), very good performances, and an appropriately absurd way for Bong Joon-ho to mark the second Trump era.

    Side-note: is it physically possible for Toni Collette not to steal whatever scenes she’s in? That woman can do whatever she likes, goodness.

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  • Disco Inferno

    Disco Inferno

    ★★½

    Cool aesthetic and some neat ideas that aren’t allowed to go many places due to the short runtime

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★½

    A few thoughts:

    1) I absolutely love comic book movies that feel like comic books (thus my soft spot for movies like Aquaman), and this certainly does that incredibly.
    2) the animation is clearly spectacular, and the storytelling decisions around the animation like Gwen and her father’s last scene are very fun.
    3) love the Spot as a villain bursting with aesthetic possibilities. His black and white scenes felt like I was reading a DC Vertigo comic book.
    4) The…