This is why they're not making pennies anymore.
Miss you, Tony Todd, you legend.
2025
Maybe I wasn't in quite the right mood but this didn't hit for me like I hoped it would, I was so hyped for a "Substance but make it fairy tale". There are some exquisite scenes in here - all of Elvira's fantasies are gorgeous 80s gaussian throwbacks, all the better to contrast with the truly nasty moments of body horror - but they didn't come as frequently as I would have liked. What in most films I would consider…
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2025
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I cannot believe this wasn't overhyped - it was BETTER.
If Hollywood decides to continue making musicals then the only person who should be in charge is Mr. Ryan Coogler.
Only someone with such understanding, love, and respect for the art of music could make a film containing one of the most beautiful renditions of "Wild Mountain Thyme" ever made, shortly coming after the cinematic audacity of the "I Lied To You" sequence collasping time and space in a jawdropping set piece. I look forward to watching this film over and over again.
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2023
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Me after I don't take the party drugs and start seeing The Little Girl Man. Oh is this not a safe space suddenly.
Is it fair for me to try to review something that is so clearly My Kind Of Shit? I love animation, I love stop motion animation, I love things about how Havin' A Mom Is Haahd, I love pretentious horror, I love stuff about How Hard It Is To Make Art including (perhaps especially when) the artist…
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1953
Thank god I tend to avoid star ratings because where would I even begin with this one.
Immediately after this ended I said to my very good friend, "I enjoyed watching this, I cannot recommend it to anybody in good faith."
This movie is:
1/4th the most incredible production design to ever exist, flawlessly translating the illustrations of Dr. Seuss into three-dimensional reality in a way that has not been achieved since, even with many, many tries
1/4th serving cunt…
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2024
The short version: I DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE SOLITARY CRAP ABOUT FIDELITY TO THE STAGE MUSCIAL, THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD FIDELITY TO THE BOOK AND THEY SHOULD HAVE KISSED DURING "DEFYING GRAVITY" I AM GOING TO DIE ON THIS HILL AND LOSE TO A DOG AT CHECKERS.
The long version: after over two years of griping about this thing's very existence (the context being that I got to see the original Broadway production with the original cast in 2004…
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2001
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With the screens on a flight I was on only deciding to work for the last 50 minutes, and no indication of where to connect headphones, I watched the first 45 minutes of Fellowship of the Ring with closed captioning and no audio.
The way that I could recall the exact phrasing and delivery of every single one of Ian McKellan's lines as Gandalf. The way the entirety of Bilbo's character played fully on Ian Holm's face. The way every shot was fully legible on that tiny, outdated back-of-seat airplane screen, the central focus of each shot composition perfect. Pure lightning in a bottle filmmaking.
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2025
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Based on the comments I overheard while leaving the theater, I truly have no idea what people want out of movies!!!
I sat there at the end thinking "wow, that wasn't as cerebral as I thought it would be, but it sure is nice to get some old-fashioned crowd-pleasing blockbuster sci-fi filmmaking back, the kind of thing Spielberg would make back in the day but with more violence and swearing."
And then overhearing people saying,
"Did you like it?" "No,…
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