This is gonna be hard to review.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a great film. It's a great watch from the perspective of watching it for the horror or its weirdness. The body horror is so good. The effects are great and it's so creative. The main story and its themes are about a person known simply as The Salaryman becoming more machine than man. It's like Eraserhead (which this movie takes a lot of inspiration from) in that you…
What's Up Doc? is a homage to the screwball comedies of Classic Hollywood. I personally never saw any others. Going by this movie I may like them.
The films main plot is about four identical briefcases and the mix up shenanigans that go down.
The comedy in this movie is great. The fast talking wordplay jokes, some physical humor and absurd situations all come together as all of it is well acted and directed. The way all the characters bounce…
52 Films Directed By Women 2025: #14
It's almost shocking seeing how Sofia Coppola doesn't have her style be less moody here. I know she kept going further into a dreamy atmosphere style, but if there'd be a place to stop that development, it'd be a historical biopic. Better yet, the decisions really work, albeit there's a point where you can feel the length of the film.
The film is very painterly. There's a shot of Marie getting a letter…
HORRORx52 2025
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Category 4: The horror film that's been on your watchlist the longest
Lots of walking around spooky Gothic sets with the plot only really developing in the second half, and what plot there is being shallow and feeling like it should be more. None of that ever feels like it matters though. Bava isn't just a fantastic director at setting the mood, but he executes on it perfectly even more with him being a great-ass cinematographer. The movie's pitch black, and often feels like you're seeing faces amidst a black void, and damn he does good at that.
Cobra Thunderbolt packs it all in. The rad chase scene. Battles that range from typical action movie, to the city police battling terrorists, but it's like Vietnam. Both types of scenes having endless explosions. To a name like Dick Smore, which weirdly sounds like the male-equivalent name of a Bond Girl.
The way Villeneuve deals with exposition is almost like the opposite of Lynch, and unsurprisingly better. The former does is all naturally, with a few moments where it's a little more explicit. The latter does exposition all in bulk, with the moments Villeneuve being a bit more explicit on being poorly explained or just not explained. Looking back, it makes sense since Lynch dislikes revealing information.
Denis Villeneuve's Dune really is the Peter Jackson adaptation of Lord Of The Rings compared to David Lynch's Ralph Bakshi.
