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An ‘X’ -rated time capsule
8/10 X is a period piece from behind the camera, a celebration of long-expired tastes to tell a story contrasting the generation that popularized them, the passive changes time brings and the active reactions to those changes. Texas, 1979, the … Continue reading
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Tagged A24, Actual pornography, Halloween, Mia Goth, Scott Mescudi, Slahsers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Ti West, X
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‘Halloween Kills’ lumbers dully, aimlessly through theaters
1/10 Halloween Kills is a film after Michael Myers’ own heart, a mindless machine doing something no one really wants over and over again with no distinguishing features, nothing to say, no discernible motive and no discernible reason why audiences … Continue reading
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Tagged Haddonfield, Halloween, Halloween Kills, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Myers, Pontiac Illinois city budget
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A quarantine with The Master
Several years ago now, I started systemically moving through the work of high-profile directors. This is part of the path from loud movie nerd to legitimate film scholar – film scholars actually study film, they don’t just write about it. … Continue reading
Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick, Dial M for Murder, Disney, Dr. No, Foreign COrrespondent, Francois Truffaut, Frenzy, Gone with the Wind, Halloween, I Confess, Independence Day, Jamaica Inn, Lifeboat, Marnie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Windo, Rebecca, Rope, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Silence of the Lambs, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Strangers on a Train, Studio system, The 39 Steps, The Birds, The Dark Knight, The Lady Vanishes, The Paradine Case, The Trouble with Harry, Tippi Hedren, To Catch a Thief, Torn Curtain, Under Capricorn, Vertigo
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