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Late Night with the Devil 2023
So that's what happened to Colbert!
Clever premise and very well executed. Someone described it as Network crossed with The Exorcist and that's about right.
Dastalmachian earns it with his portrait of fictitious late night variety show host, Jack Delroy. The attention to period detail makes the found footage hook work. Perhaps most importantly, the Cairnes brothers are able to sell the premise because they're treating the demonic realm as a terrifying reality.
At the same time, they're doing a…
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Sound of Metal 2019
Respectable.
The filmmakers will never admit it, but films like this are by default stories of man seeking divine grace. The decision to make this a double themed narrative of sobriety and deafness was a little false advertising but it certainly didn't derail the film.
Honestly, the biggest disappointment to me was the decision to make Black Gammon a sludgy, artsy vegan alt metal band rather than a more conventional heavy metal band. Admittedly, it would have been a much…
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Man of God 2021
It's a good thing that Hollywood ignores Orthodox Christianity in its various films. The few I've seen were made by people who were either Orthodox or had an intention to portray the faith and their subjects respectfully. Not only is Yelena Popovic' Man of God a great film, I see its very existence in 2022 as a sign of God's grace and benevolence. Just as the case with Andrei Roublev and The Island, it might be a hard sell if…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023
When a major film studio that presides over some of the most successful franchises in modern cinema history actively makes so many bad choices and fails to learn from its mistakes, one can reasonably conclude that this is not mere incompetence. It is willful malevolence and contempt.
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