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The Zone of Interest 2023
Words truly fail me when it comes to this haunting piece of filmic brilliance. See it and turn the volume up. The sound design and score are devastatingly genius.
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Talk to Me 2022
It’s not often that I watch a horror film (or a film of any genre whatsoever) and I feel as if it is being confrontational toward me. Note: I mean this in the best way humanly possible. Talk To Me gets in your face, pushes you down on the ground, spits on you, and taunts you endlessly. AGAIN…I mean that as the highest praise possible.
Truly disturbing. Truly uncomfortable. Truly hypnotic. Truly cringe-inducing. Somehow relatable at times? It ticks all…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
I had really wanted to read the source material prior to seeing this masterpiece of film; but, like with most of Scorsese’s cinematic adaptations of books…I ended up letting him tell HIS VERSION of the story first and I dug back into the source text later. Which I’m fine with. I generally prefer the Marty version anyway. I’d rather live in his version of “reality” than anywhere else.
Scorsese paints this particular “world” as only he knows how…very authentically. The…
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