Everything you’d want from a trip to the movies, delightfully funny while also devastatingly heartbreaking. It’s so easy to get lost in all that Anora is, so engaging in its narrative, and visually provides that classic Sean Baker aesthetic. Bakers films are like a dream, always such a true-to reality look at different types of people. Bakers films mostly focusing on sex workers is such a nice change of pace from the usual character study picture; he focuses on these…

Rewatched this eariler with some friends, Murder Party is a film I had seen a few years ago and I had ed liking it. It’s been due for a rewatch for quite some time, and it’s just as over the top as I . It has a simple but engaging premise, but does meander quite a bit through the second act. The third act does sadly make Murder Party feel tonally imbalanced but it’s easily the biggest highlight here. Murder Party…

Cruel for the sake of being cruel. Attempts to provide a very Halloween II (Rob Zombie) character study but gets terribly lost. The kills are graphic, and most of this just feels entirely miserable. It’s much more akin to the first than the second, at points really shies away from the main narrative just for multiple gross-out moments that get kinda stale. Gore doesn’t really get to me, so I just felt pretty bored throughout most of this, not really…

I’m not sure who Alien Romulus is even for. Was the original films fan base clamoring for Ian Holm to be revived with CGI? Or for classic lines to be repeated with the most unsubtle delivery possible? Why was this the direction they chose? I’ve liked Fede Álvarez's previous work so I was excited when he got attached to this project, but what happened here? Even when the fan service isn’t happening I felt little to no tension present, there…

Sets to reinvent the established and cliche formula of slashers; hard to say if it does but it definitely has moments of greatness. The tone of this film is terrific, bleak, it prays on how sick and twisted these killings are. A game of cat and mouse, kills that absolutely pull zero punches. Slow paced but works in what it sets out to do in putting us in a killers perspective. The human characters are cliche; filled with cringy and…