Category: Movies
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Dracula, or, There’s Some Horrors in This House
Some quick thoughts about Hammer’s 1958 classic Horror of Dracula. (Spoilers for a movie from almost 70 years ago)
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The Innocents and the surprising rarity of satisfying ghost stories
My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting
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Reaction Heroes
A simple yet shockingly insightful observation about super-hero inflation and bringing the stakes back into action movies
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One Thing I Like About One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.
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One Thing I Like About Dead of Winter
Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington
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Cinematic Smackdown: The Tragedy of Macbeth vs True Grit
What happens when Joel Coen brings the full force of his filmmaking skills to an adaptation
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One Thing I Like About The Roses
The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere
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One Thing I Like About Honey Don’t!
Honey Don’t! is the kind of independent, noir-tinged, straightforward detective story that just doesn’t get made anymore. (No significant spoilers)
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One Thing I Like About Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls has so many of the components of a good movie
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One Thing I Like About K-Pop Demon Hunters
I never expected this movie to treat the question “am I in the target audience?” as completely irrelevant
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Movie List Monday: Oh, So That’s Why We Have Movies
A list of movies with scenes that taught me why the medium exists in the first place