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  Alita: Battle Angel 2019

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025 1

  This is honestly such a strange film. A massive budget dystopian action film with an obvious YA demographic, and yet they cram tons of ideas and fairly interesting world-building (most likely from the source material this is based on but I can't confirm that) into a shorter than average film and you really feel it. It is far from a disaster but it is all over the place and anything that I was particularly interested in vanished as soon as…

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  Don't Look Now 1973

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Feb 2025

  Criterion Collection - Spine Number #745

  A visual masterpiece, emblematic of a very specific aesthetic period in horror. It's a mysterious and off-center horror taking place in Italy and it honestly does feel very related to a giallo film, if it were somehow made by a craftsman like Roeg. A married couple who, in a very rare portrayal, genuinely love each other immensely, experience the greatest trauma parents can experience and they try to move on. Mystical, nefarious forces seem…

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  All the Moons 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Feb 2022

  Really floored by this one. Vampires have been such a main character in the culture, growing far past the confines of horror. At least for me, it can get tedious being spoon-fed the same mythology and list of traits with every new iteration of story involving vampires. I think the way this movie goes about doing so is brilliant, and captivating because the progression feels so natural. So much so that I could totally see the perspective that they might…

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  Hellraiser 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Oct 2022

  There's quite a lot to like here, depending mostly on what you are looking for. Admittedly I had unfair expectations given that I think Bruckner displayed some of the potential that is required to make a Hellraiser entry soar in The Night House. In some regards, it shows here like I hoped, but it isn't perfect. Jamie Clayton's portrayal of Pinhead absolutely rules, even more than the promotional images hinted at, and in general the increased presence of Cenobites and…

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