movie review
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Years ago, I saw a movie. An adaptation, I assumed, inspired by Lovecraft’s The Color from Outer Space — which is my favorite work by him for it’s relative lack of racism. Just a rock that changes everything around it, the living things in its vicinity taking its influence into themselves as an indescribable color…
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This is a review of Longlegs. !!!Major spoilers for the entire movie ahead, reader beware!!! There’s been an uptick in the amount of media featuring satanic concepts lately, some well-done and others lacking in nuance in a way that might have been fine in the 80’s, but grates nowadays. Longlegs is, unfortunately, in the “lacking…
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It should come as a surprise to no one that I love Godzilla, and though my knowledge of the franchise is slimmer than that of your average superfan I still ran to the theaters as soon as I realized that a new Japanese rendition of Godzilla was out. I was late to the punch —…
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Videodrome is a 1983 science fiction/body horror film directed by David Cronenberg at his most fucked. I love it for all the reasons I love Cronenberg’s other work: the viscera, the artistry of corn syrup and slime, the sexual innuendo of horror, and the vigorous application of latex. It’s a favorite Halloween haunt, but so…
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The French Dispatch feels like a lot of the Wes Anderson movies I’ve watched (regrettably, not all of them, namely Isle of Dogs and Fantastic Mr. Fox) in that the colors are warm, the cinematography acutely aware of shifting moods and personalities of the characters, and filled with a certain kind of cozy charm that…
from the pen of icarus blake 