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  From Dusk Till Dawn 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 15 May 2019

  There's something admirably punk-rock about this movie giving so little of a shit that it only bothers to live up to it's 'vampires but this time they're in a bar' premise in the last 40 minutes. But once it does, wow does it have a good time with it. The crazy schlock of the last third alone is worth the price of admission. Overall still held back from greatness because the lack of characterization in the first two-thirds makes them…

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  Us 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2019

  A bit torn on this one. On the one hand, if you look at Us just on a surface level, it's fantastic.A beautifully crafted, entertaining as hell popcorn horror-flick that's jam-packed with a creative energy unlike anything I've seen in a long time. But on the other hand, Us is so desperate to be about something that it completely loses track of itself. I know there's a lot to unpack here and plenty of people will find the symbology rich…

Popular reviews

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  TRON: Legacy 2010

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Jul 2016 3

  Genuinely don't get the hate for this one. It's a style over substance flick for sure, but god damn is it stylish. The visual design is consistently beautiful the entire way through, constantly offering up cool new LED infused eye-candy. The score is the perfect blend of epic orchestral and Daft Punk's signature groovy electronica. While the characters aren't complex in any substantive way, they are well defined and consistently fun to watch, especially Bridges' awesome anachronistic hippy-Jesus depiction of…

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  Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Sep 2016

  Film #1 of my Hoop-Tober 3.0 list!
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  It's hard to tell what exactly Season of the Witch is going for as it ping-pongs from murderous robots to spooky small towns to vague witch-craft related "ancient technology". The whole thing ends up being a confusingly jumbled mess and it's not hard to see why it bombed so fantastically upon release, even without considering the lack of the iconic Michael Myers. Not to mention the myriad of stilted performances (try as…