Really cool to see how many tropes of modern zombie storytelling and creature design can be traced to this film. The story was pretty lackluster and it suffers from the Men Yelling At Each Other syndrome that plagues so many older horror/disaster movies that are otherwise pretty compelling, but overall it’s fun to watch a little bit of history
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Black Bag 2025
This being my third Soderbergh film after never having explored his filmography until recently, I’m struck by how compact and fluid his plots are and the mastery he has of genre conventions without being stifled by them. Black Bag is no different, a contraption of perpetual motion which hits all the beats of a spy thriller and relational drama, sacrificing neither of them in favor of the other. This may be where it breaks down the most for me –…
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Chicken for Linda! 2023
Has to go down as a top movie of 2024, not least for the scene where a love-struck French guy steals a cop’s gun
A breakneck ride with delectable animation, at times mind-bending and intricate, at others soul-crushingly tender and simple. Every visual detail of this is given its due diligence – the distant characters and objects enveloped by bubbles which shift and grow with them, evoking the power of memories and the inevitable singularity within which we navigate our…
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003
This gets the award for worst color palette ever. Such a drab and boring reimagining of a defining horror film. The remake has none of the courage to linger on the grotesqueness of its setting or subjects, none of the necessary intelligence to situate those subjects in a compelling or even humanizing arrangement; It doesn’t understand the complexity of its villains and their own victimization at the hands of industrialization and organized abandonment – instead, it portrays them as consciously…
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