There’s always this depressing caveat to watching classic movies that actually live up to their reputation: you end up thinking, 'So they made the best of this genre 42 years ago, huh?' The Thing is without a doubt one of those. It’s the kind of film that makes you want to retroactively take a star off 95% of the movies in the genre in anger because barely anything has come close to how well-written, shot and acted it was four…
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Evil Dead Rise 2023
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In my review of Evil Dead (2013), I wrote that one of the film’s shortcomings was the lack of the insane hilarity the Deadites brought to the original trilogy, whether in an on-the-nose way, like in Army of Darkness, or in the they’re-so-doomed-that-it-circles-back-to-being-funny way, like in Evil Dead II. Not that anything could have saved that forest fire of a movie but at least then one could say, ‘Well, at least the Deadites were cool.’
I’m happy to announce that…
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The Batman 2022
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“Sunday, September 22. People are writing reviews for the holiday. Even with the rain. Hidden in the logs, is the element, waiting to rate like snakes. And I’m there too. Writing. Two years of Letterboxd have turned me into a nocturnal animal. I must choose my movies carefully. It’s a big watchlist. I can’t review them all.”
I adore this movie, especially the first 25 minutes or so. Everything from the opening monologue, to Riddler being straight out of Zodiac,…
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