Silicon Valley manager, Science Fiction enthusiast, published author, occasional critic, occasional editor, and terrible banjo player.
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Broker 2022
Take it as you will, but "Broker" is a film about human trafficking. Oh, it's bittersweet, funny at moments, weird at others, with most of the markings of a dark comedy, but beneath it all there's still an underlying motif - someone, somewhere, is benefitting from selling children. They may not be hardened criminals running pregnancy farms, they may be decent, downtrodden people (like here), but the system is running on green, and neither the movie nor any of the…
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Creepshow 2 1987
What I was saying about "Lifeforce" both applies and doesn't apply to "Creepshow 2". Unlike "Lifeforce", which was much too expensive and spectacular to be true video product, "Creepshow 2" comes straight outta Compton...I mean cheap thrilla-land whose rotting corpses and wild imaginings fueled many a childhood dream over years. I can't really remember, but I'm pretty sure all of my childhood friends watched original "Creepshow 2" when it finally appeared in video-stores near us. Creep himself was slightly less…
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The Dark and the Wicked 2020
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Day 3 of the Pick your Poison Challenge (https://letterboxd.com/aubra_/list/pick-your-poison-challenge-2024-1/)
Can't quite put my finger on it, but I could watch Vinnie Jones bash peoples' heads in all day long and not bat an eyelid, but give me a creepy smile floating in the dark, and I'm at the edge of my seat, brimming with anxiety. It doesn't have to be a cheap jump scare for it to work, nothing even needs to happen - the potential alone is enough. It…Translated from by
