Dana Deane

Dana Deane

Favorite films

  • The Exorcist
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Boogie Nights

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  • Saint Maud

    ★★★★

  • Hereditary

    ★★★★½

  • Under the Shadow

    ★★½

  • Under the Skin

    ★★★★½

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  • Saint Maud

    Saint Maud

    ★★★★

    Religion is horrifying indeed. The ending is shocking.

  • Hereditary

    Hereditary

    ★★★★½

    I worship Toni Collette.

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  • You Won't Be Alone

    You Won't Be Alone

    ★★★★

    The other day, James recommended this movie to me, forgetting that I recommended it to him a year and a half ago. The sleight of my friend not immediately heeding my movie recommendation a year and a half ago aside, he was right that it’s my kind of movie. 

    I’m a sucker for any witch movie, and this one is no exception. It’s an artsy fartsy Sundance film about a teenage girl who’s been hiding in a cave her whole…

  • Smile 2

    Smile 2

    ★★★★½

    Love love love love love. Far better than the first, or at least far more exhilarating, and that’s saying a lot bc the first was excellent. But aside from the common themes of trauma, self loathing, and mental/behavioral health issues, these are completely different movies. Smile 1 is a more “serious” movie, but Smile 2 manages to artfully deal with these same dead serious topics while keeping the audience regularly laughing with the characters’ witty and relatable millennial banter. That’s…

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