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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Late in the movie, a young woman in the row in front of me leaned over and whispered to her friend,
‘I hope it’s over now.’It wasn’t.
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Piranha 1978
Terror, horror, death. Film at eleven.
Joe Dante’s early creature feature is properly old-fashioned, campy, and surprisingly violent given the absurd premise. No one is spared — even kids are served up as fodder for the ferocious little eaters. The titular piranhas are mostly shown as a flurry of teeth, blood, and air bubbles or as a school ‘swimming’ in a suspiciously straight line. Even so, the effects hold up well enough, even though the piranhas sound like a swarm…
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Bend It Like Beckham 2002
A Sunday afternoon feel-good movie with a touch of cultural struggle, some football, a slightly problematic relationship, and two likable leads in Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley.
You don’t see many of these outsider-teen-doing-sports movies nowadays. Used to be loads of them.
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Dead & Buried 1981
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Dead & Buried is a slow and deliberate, old-school horror film. It’s considered a classic, but for some reason, I’ve never gotten around to watching it before. With a script by Alien writers Shusett and O’Bannon, I expected a certain level of quality—and it is good—but this is not a film that’s in a hurry to show its hand. It would be borderline boring if not for a constantly eerie atmosphere that sometimes reminds me of The…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
So, my son wanted to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street, and as luck would have it, I had the 4K Blu-ray on hand. Immediately after the film ended, he asked if we could watch the second film too.
Proud dad.
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