This was nuts… I feel like I just went to the circus. Though maybe I should’ve expected that when a puppeteer adapts a feminist horror/sci-fi story for 2004, he may gravitate towards zany aughts caricatures and cutting-edge special effects. I typed a bunch of other stuff about this movie but actually it was funny and insane enough to be impenetrable to any serious thought (Jon Lovitz is in it). Expecting a 2020s remake soon 🔮
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A Different Man 2024
Was this a perfect movie? Amazing performances, harrowing story, a crazy body horror moment. And wow it looked gorgeous
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Kinds of Kindness 2024
Poor Things was great, but I was so excited when the lights went down and it became clear that this was more tonally aligned with his other work. What a fun theater experience— you forget the audience you’re sitting in is small when you are all together laughing, gasping, horrified, devastated, disgusted. Yuppp. Yorgos has a power. He brings qualities out of his actors that no other director can, however divisive his filmmaking style may be (I saw some very…
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Longlegs 2024
All comparisons to Silence of the Lambs aside, this had potential to stand on its own on, maybe under different direction. There's something disconnected and kind of disingenuous about it? I laughed out loud a couple times. Did I still feel scared walking home from the theater? Maybe a little.
The line at the end that was something like “She was a nurse for 8 years. Now she helps kill kids full-time 😈🫢” haha ok!
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