I’m either going to be unpacking this one for a while, or I’ll drift away glad I watched it but unlikely to revisit. I’m genuinely on the fence right now. When the credits rolled, I said to my buddies that I couldn’t even begin to comprehend how a movie like this is conceived and assembled. Directors and artists like Brady Corbett are operating on an entirely other level, and I can’t help but tip my hat. Everything here was placed…
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 2013
My curse is having a perfect pitch for Anchorman 3, McKay and Ferrell no longer speaker, and of course… me not working in Hollywood. When this movie is carving its own path, it is at its strongest. All the stuff surrounding the news team working the graveyard shift on the 24hr news cycle, and then the utterly bonkers third act with Burgundy in the lighthouse, that’s all much better than re-treading say, the news team rumble. I think there was…
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The Mist 2007
Spky Szn #9: Still rips, closing in on twenty years later. I’ve definitely come to appreciate the black & white version the most, as it really does evoke the “thing from another planet” vibe of 50’s horror, but in full colour the thing that’s aged best here (frighteningly so) is the human horror. The “Mrs. Carmody’s” of every community are a lot easier to spot now, and it’s terrifying to think how quickly things would descend like this. Truly spine chilling horror.
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The Substance 2024
Spky Szn #6: Do I give it a heart? The thing is, I kinda consider a heart a sign that I’ll watch the movie repeatedly, and I think it will honestly be a long time before I revisit The Substance. This was such a wild ride, and I like to think of myself as fairly desensitized, and my mouth was hanging open multiple times throughout the film, especially the endlessly relentless climax. This was a higher budget modern Troma pic,…
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