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September 5 2024
closer to a 4 than a 3 for me. I was primed to like it as a lover of journalism movies, and thought this was very well directed, edited, and acted (I will always love u John Magaro!) with lots of retro broadcast production-design porn, so that was fun.
the choice to focus on the in-the-moment reporting and the short-term journalistic ethics conundrums that arise out of the situation as it unfolds (rather than digging into the sociopolitical context of…
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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon 2006
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was pleasantly surprised by this for the first two thirds— loved the mockumentary style and it gets lots of entertaining mileage out of the cognitive dissonance between the mundane logistical preparations and the fact that the preparations are for a killing spree. (the cardio! best joke in the movie.)
Unfortunately goes downhill once the film crew grows a conscience, put their cameras down, and it becomes a standard slasher— mostly because this is THEEEEEE most generic slasher plot ever and…
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Jurassic Park 1993
a perfect film. I might love it even more as an adult than I did as a kid.
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 2021
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