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A simple and straightforward comedy film with a bit of a weird premise (a school who teaches you how to become a confident man, filtered through 60's macho ideology) that's really tied together by one thing...
Delauney is a bastard. A bastard distilled into it's most hateable, poshest, irratating form. And there's an art to making a character so easy to hate, a character that inspires actual, genuine frustration and anger that all you can do is root for his…
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I'm currenty writing this review a week after I watched this movie, and it's been a reaccuring presence in my mind ever since, more so than most movies I've watched in years.
Visually, the movie is amazing. While most of the movie is in taxi rides, something about the way the cities are captured, the stark light and dark of the evening alleys of Paris and New York, the soft blue morning Light of Helsinki, the busy lights of LA,…
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Watched at Cultplex's Nightmare on Elm Street 40th Anniversary event.
My main takeaway from watching A Nightmare On Elm Street for the first time, especially as someone who has only properly gotten into horror films within the last few years, is seeing a classic movie like this and seeing how it's influenced more modern horror movies, but also just how unique the film is in it's own right. Many films have been influenced by A Nightmare on Elm Street, but…
Watched at GASP! Horror Film Festival 2024
The idea of a found footage film about a group of YouTubers playing a murderous horror game seems so obvious in retrospect, and this film does that idea justice. It weaves fun horror set pieces with layered characters, great acting, and a discussion of many of the uglier sides of online content creation. This was so much fun.
