Viewing Journal: 10/31/2022

HAPPY HALLOWEENER

this Halloween I went Trick-or-treating as the character "Drunk Neighbour in a Lime Green Speedo with Pasty White Legs" 🤘

(Many of my neighbors are now legally blind)

648) WENDELL & WILD

(2022 dir. Henry Selick) Date Seen: October 31 2022

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647) LOVE ON THE GROUND

(1984 dir. Jacques Rivette) Date Seen: October 31 2022

Viewing Journal: 10/30/2022

646) TÁR

(2022 dir. Todd Field) Date Seen: October 30 2022

645) SEVEN STAGES TO ACHIEVE ETERNAL BLISS [BY PASSING THROUGH THE GATEWAY CHOSEN BY THE HOLY STORSH]

(2018 dir. Vivieno Caldinelli) Date Seen: October 30 2022

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Viewing Journal: 10/29/2022

644) THE GOOD NURSE

(2022 dir. Tobias Lindholm) Date Seen: October 29 2022

643) THE WHITE REINDEER 

         [VALKOINEN PEURA]

(1952 dir. Erik Blomberg) Date Seen: October 29 2022

642) THE HAUNTED HOUSE

(1921 dir. Keaton/Cline) Date Seen: October 29 2022

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Viewing Journal: 10/28/2022

641) TILL

(2022 dir. Chinonye Chukwu) Date Seen: October 28 2022

640) PREY FOR THE DEVIL

(2022 dir. Daniel Stamm) Date Seen: October 28 2022

What's with all the PG-13 demonic possession flicks? Lionsgate in particular has like 20 of these things coming down the pike. 

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Viewing Journal: 10/27/2022

639) SIGNIFICANT OTHER

(2022 dir. R.Olsen/Berk) Date Seen: October 27 2022

Starts promising enough then devolves into silly DREAMCATCHER (2003) territory. Skip this and see WATCHER if you want to see the great Maika Monroe thriller of 2022.

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638) LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S 

                   BLACK & BLUES

(2022 dir. Sacha Jenkins) Date Seen: October 27 2022

Viewing Journal: 10/26/2022

637) 

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

(2022 dir. Martin McDonagh) Date Seen: October 26 2022

A triumphant & praiseworthy return to form for Martin McDonagh. (after the ill-conceived 3 BILLBOARDS in late 2017).

636) ALL HALLOWS' EVE 2

(2015 dir. lots of people) Date Seen: October 26 2022

individual segments: (favorite highlighted red) 

• Mike Kochansky's "Mr Tricker's Treat"                   *1/2
• Kondelik bros' "M is for Masochist"                        *1/2
• Jesse Baget's "Trickster"                                            *1/2
• Marc Roussel's "The Last Halloween"                      **
• Elias Benavidez "A Boy's Life"                                  **1/2
• Antonio Padovan's "Jack Attack"                             **1/2
• Jay Holben's "Descent"                                            **1/2
• Ryan Patch's "The Offering"                                    *1/2
• Andrés Borghi "Alexia"                                              ***

635) 

  THE WOMAN WHO POWDERS HERSELF 

  [LA FEMME QUI SE POUDRE]

(1972 dir. Patrick Bokanowski) Date Seen: October 26 2022

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Viewing Journal: 10/25/2022

634) TICKET TO PARADISE

(2022 dir. Ol Parker) Date Seen: October 25 2022

633) KOTOKO

(2011 dir. Shinya Tsukamoto) Date Seen: October 25 2022

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632) TWISTED NERVE

(1968 dir. Roy Boulting) Date Seen: October 25 2022

Viewing Journal: 10/24/2022

631) MY POLICEMAN

(2022 dir. Michael Grandage) Date Seen: October 24 2022

630) ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS

(2001 dir. Sam Irvin) Date Seen: October 24 2022

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Viewing Journal: 10/23/2022

629) THE CURSE 

                 OF BRIDGE HOLLOW

(2022 dir. Jeff Wadlow) Date Seen: October 23 2022

628) AMITYVILLE: DOLLHOUSE

(1996 dir. Steve White) Date Seen: October 23 2022

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Viewing Journal: 10/22/2022

627) BLACK ADAM

(2022 dir. Jaume Collet-Serra) Date Seen: October 22 2022

• Cacophony of visual clutter sporadically broken up by moments of honest grace & wit.. It bums me out though how a lot of these superhero things are starting to feel like big pastiches of every comic book movie ever made, all mixed together, all playing out at once.

• Not since 2014's RUN ALL NIGHT have I been split 50/50 on a Collet-Serra. I'm ordinarily a big fan.

• It's obvious this is all a big passion project for Big Swollen Johnson (aka Chrome dome Supreme aka The Rock Hard Duhwayngus) so I wish the drama at the core of the story moved me more. 

• Added to the "mixed but worth seeing" section of my ongoing Super Heroes & Villains @ 24fps listicle.

626) PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL

(1983 dir. Hua Shan) Date Seen: October 22 2022

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Viewing Journal: 10/21/2022

625) TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

(2022 dir. Ruben Östlund) Date Seen: October 21 2022

624) BABY BLOOD

(1990 dir. Alain Robak) Date Seen: October 21 2022

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