From out of the past, where forgotten things belong
You keep coming back like a song.
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Smile 2 2024
Think about the tour.
Fuck the tour.
Kind of an abrupt way to start, but I cannot bury this lede. Cristóbal Tapia de Veer's score for the first film blew my hair back so hard that it still lingers as one of my couple favorite scores of this progressing decade, and dude was given license to go fully fucking buckwild here. Seems that was the order of the day in the production writ large, but whatever restraints were left on…
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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 2016
From out of the past
Where forgotten things belong
You keep coming back
Like a songI remember hearing, or reading, several years ago an argument for the non-existence of ghosts. It went thus: for the many billions of human or humanlike lives which have ended up on this Earth, were even a fraction to have produced spiritual remnants, the surface of the planet, every square inch of the globe, would be swimming in such beings. Stacks of them on…
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The Woman in the Yard 2025
Have a hell of a needle to thread, because somewhat frequently here I felt like this was all a little too straightforward, too willing to follow in the footsteps of its other recent trauma horror forebears. Then, right toward the end, things start getting a little more abstract, and found the abstraction convincingly evocative (and, I suspect, just withholding enough to mislead some folks; the Wikipedia summary of the plot right now e.g. completely misinterprets the ending). If there's some…
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Death of a Unicorn 2025
About halfway through, Ortega's Ridley comes across an old tapestry depicting what happened once upon a time when humanity attempted to exploit unicorns. All sorts of brutality is depicted thereupon, many a death on the part of the foolhardy humans. As these deaths are later reenacted within the film itself, a sense develops that this is sort of like a narrative feature adaptation of the A+++++ all timer tweet wherein a mysterious lady flips a tarot card that depicts the…
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The Final Destination 2009
The most violent episode of That's So Raven I've ever seen, certainly.
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Nathan for You: Finding Frances 2017
Does my voice sound familiar to you?
A raw weaponization of the fundamental unknowability of other people, paraded through actors, paid company, unfamiliar faces, untrustworthy recounts, ultimately back to who has always been the show’s central question mark. After all, how could they be understood when we so struggle to even approach understanding ourselves, our true motives, our true feelings, our true needs. If people are to us what we need them to be and what small glimpses we can…
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