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Rebel Ridge 2024
"I think he’s on the Wikipedia page."
Saulnier has never disappointed me, from MURDER PARTY to this.
REBEL RIDGE is better Jack Reacher than Jack Reacher. One of Saulnier's best, up there with BLUE RUIN and GREEN ROOM.
Please cast Aaron Pierre in everything. And AnnaSophia Robb. And feel blessed that we are in what my friend Lowell calls "the golden age of Don Johnson".
Fantastic little thriller that I will watch again with the missus this weekend.
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The Brutalist 2024
I am the last person I know to have to seen this brilliant, moving, gorgeous epic about broken people and art and vision and othering.
But, I went to the theater across the street for its final show before, I dunno, SNOW WHITE maybe, and I had the whole theater to myself! A private screening with a beer (they serve beer), popcorn, and me. (There WAS a mouse in the theater, and I expect they've seen the movie a few…
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The Substance 2024
This might be the most exciting and ingenious movie of the year. It’s certainly the gooiest.
DEATH BECOMES HER as a Grand Guignol black comedy.
I’d love to see it on the Oscars, because they’d have to work extra hard to show a goo-free clip.
Demi and Margaret absolutely crushed it. No, quite literally. And they were brilliant.
And it was a wonderful symphony of practical effects and makeup, right down to the (spoiler) glorious firehose of blood.
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National Theatre Live: Treasure Island 2015
Stumbled on this on Vimeo (for free!). Absolutely spectacular, riveting production.
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