Just : despite a seemingly endless blur of soulless, lifeless, shit-stained consumeristic slop being plastered across our screens week in and week out, there can still be true power in film as a transcendental medium. Coogler deserves every bit of praise heaped upon him for this one. Phenomenal stuff.
P.S. Marvel fucking WISHES they could make a mid-credits scene that good, holy shit.
P.P.S. Jesus Christ, the voice on Miles Caton.
“When you can lie about everything, when you deny everything, how can you tell the truth about anything?”
Sex-pionage meets The Thin Man meets a script that cracks like a fucking bullwhip and sleek jazzy mystery vibes like no other. Fassbender and Blanchett are something special here. Legitimately one of the best love stories of the past 10 years. Soderbergh, you dog.
“For a minute there, I thought you were human.”
Demián Rugna’s tune-up game before pumping out When Evil Lurks. Couldn’t give less of a shit that it sort of feels like a series of disted vignettes at times—the guy just understands what “fear” is, pure & simple.
Once again emanating those same Lucio Fulci “we’ve entered the doomsday realm” vibes as he masterfully does with Lurks, only this time linking more to City of the Living Dead or The Beyond in how inconsequential everything seems. Creepy shit happens in a…
Has to be the best ever death via genital piercing, right?
Goddamn do I love this franchise. A formula that never gets stale, and yet they somehow manage to make it feel fresher than ever. New rules, new lore, new kill scenarios, new character dynamics (family ensembles in horror movies = awesome), rational thinking on display like never before, a VERY extended opening that kicks some serious ass, the best damn death scene of the whole franchise (I’ve always been…
Two films now in 2023 have dared to examine the fallout and societal implications of WWII’s nuclear exclamation point:
1. A hard-hitting social drama chronicling years in the life of a man broken and haunted by his own failure to prevent the darkness and devastation that enveloped the world following the introduction of the atomic bomb and the inadvertent opening of a door to an endless plague of hopelessness and destruction set upon future generations; a film which truly encapsulates…
Believe me, I know. I’m as surprised as you are. Not sure I’ve ever been unironically this far in the minority on a major release before. But fucking Todd Phillips, man. How dare you. Every fiber of my being wanted and expected to hate this. But nope. I liked it. Hell, I really liked it.
Ah, fuck it. I LOVED it.
Phillips clearly noticed a lot of people might have misunderstood the sympathetic & non-toxic point of the first one—especially with the…
