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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I was really looking forward to this but I didn't really enjoy it. Production design was all great and I loved the creepers, but I thought the film was really messy and was pretty bored by the end. Most of the cast did a good job, Pattinson was good as always, but I thought Ruffalo's Trumpian performance was awful. Didn't think the dialogue was any good either. It's all a bit PKD, which I liked, but doesn't go anywhere particularly…

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  Them! 1954

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  A solid century of monster movies and that shot of the big ant gnawing on a human ribcage has got to be one of the best moments ever. This was a lot of fun with strong characters. All the stuff in the desert was great, but the grand finale falls a bit flat.

Popular reviews

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  Occult 2009

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Oct 2020

  God as a big, writhing, interdimensional mass of leeches that really, really wants its loyalists to commit mass violence. Found this much scarier than Noroi. Truly fucking alarming score. Very “literary” in a weird way, and genuinely shocking when it takes a hard turn towards real life horrors. Loved Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s small role, that was a nice surprise.

  
  Also: Western directors who feel like they need to make a found footage movie, please watch Shiraishi’s good movies. You’ll notice that they are absolutely terrifying, and at no point do they have the cast running around screaming with their camera wobbling all over the place.

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2022 3

  The grim and gritty take on Batman has been the go-to for years now, so this super emo take exists in a world where you can basically open the movie with Riddler bludgeoning a guy's head in. It's cool to finally see a focus on detective work in a Batman movie, I think the plot was interesting and it touched on Real World Topics in some not-totally-insufferable ways. It's also cool that they're not doing that steampunk anachronistic Gotham bullshit,…