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A ★½ review of Jonah Hex (2010)
“Hey, Hex! What happened to your face?” “Cut myself shaving. What happened to yours?” The earliest plans for an adaptation of the Jonah Hex comics date back to 2000, when 20th Century Fox developed a one hour television adaptation, but nothing came from it despite having Akiva Goldsman. By 2007...
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Doesn't make 'm not goobers though. Obviously they're the good guys who make good guy choices, but they're always depicted as the awkward man who can't help but trip over their own shoe laces. I mean, I get the appeal; goofy, stumbling guy gets with the hottie. Trust me, I get it. And that's kinda why they put it there; For early 20-something guys like me to get dreamy-eyed over. But it was pretty damn prevalent in the 90's and early 00's. Tarzan and Jane from Disney's Tarzan is one of the few examples where this dynamic is reversed.
I was able to watch Demon Slayer Infinity Castle in theaters, despite moving to Europe. Got the tickets for half off too! Which meant the theater was PACKED, I haven't been in a full theater since I think Spider-verse 2.
I quite enjoyed it, despite it being quite long. The animation and sound design are as fantastic as ever, but I do think the main fight against Upper Moon 3 wasn't quite as fun as the Entertainment District arc, which I still consider the peak of the whole series.
The movie has made 600 million USD, which has broken all sorts of records. It's kinda nice to see as an anime fan, but at the same time I'm not exactly happy either that more and more manga are being adapted as movies.
I quite enjoyed it, despite it being quite long. The animation and sound design are as fantastic as ever, but I do think the main fight against Upper Moon 3 wasn't quite as fun as the Entertainment District arc, which I still consider the peak of the whole series.
The movie has made 600 million USD, which has broken all sorts of records. It's kinda nice to see as an anime fan, but at the same time I'm not exactly happy either that more and more manga are being adapted as movies.
An Argentinian in New York
1998 dramedy. A divorced dad misses his daughter at the airport as she flies away to NYC for an exchange program. When she doesn't come back 3 months later he makes the trip to get her. What follows is a reverse Beau is Afraid situation, where the child psychologically tortures the parent by stringing him along an impossible scavenging hunt just to get back at them over an old slight. At least for a bit. Then it plods into the corny territory of a Hallmark movie, signing every scene IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE SET THEM FREE, while only sparing minute or two for culture clash gags, which have been all but ironed out by time since 1998 (Americans don't put milk in their coffee! Americans don't allow smoking anywhere!). I guess bidets still aren't popular over there though.
1998 dramedy. A divorced dad misses his daughter at the airport as she flies away to NYC for an exchange program. When she doesn't come back 3 months later he makes the trip to get her. What follows is a reverse Beau is Afraid situation, where the child psychologically tortures the parent by stringing him along an impossible scavenging hunt just to get back at them over an old slight. At least for a bit. Then it plods into the corny territory of a Hallmark movie, signing every scene IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE SET THEM FREE, while only sparing minute or two for culture clash gags, which have been all but ironed out by time since 1998 (Americans don't put milk in their coffee! Americans don't allow smoking anywhere!). I guess bidets still aren't popular over there though.
A ★★★★★ review of Infernal Affairs (2002)
“Think about it. A man with 28 personalities. That means the second he wakes up, he starts role playing. He starts to forget which one is the “real” him.” While the writer of this film, Alan Mak, had wanted to make a police and gangster film for a while, his specific inspiration for this movie...
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Papá es un ídolo ("Daddy is My Idol")
2000 comedy and companion piece to Un argentino en Nueva York (same director, same leading man). In the first movie the dude goes to NYC and learns to let go of his daughter, in this one he goes to Spain and tries to win back his son. Neither of these movies are good, but this one is the more emotionally stunted/stupid of the two.
The ski resort setting is a wasted location (it's dull B-roll that doesn't even cut it as publicity) and I don't understand why the father would take the kid there if the kid doesn't know or care about skiing and the father, a former pro, quit due to a heart condition. The point is that they run into the boy's mom, who abandoned them years ago and is now dating a dashing ski pro. Pissing contest ensues.
These late 90s-early 00s Argentinian location comedies make Adam Sandler's Netflix stint feel like the glory days of 1930s screwball.
2000 comedy and companion piece to Un argentino en Nueva York (same director, same leading man). In the first movie the dude goes to NYC and learns to let go of his daughter, in this one he goes to Spain and tries to win back his son. Neither of these movies are good, but this one is the more emotionally stunted/stupid of the two.
The ski resort setting is a wasted location (it's dull B-roll that doesn't even cut it as publicity) and I don't understand why the father would take the kid there if the kid doesn't know or care about skiing and the father, a former pro, quit due to a heart condition. The point is that they run into the boy's mom, who abandoned them years ago and is now dating a dashing ski pro. Pissing contest ensues.
These late 90s-early 00s Argentinian location comedies make Adam Sandler's Netflix stint feel like the glory days of 1930s screwball.
Infernal Affairs is way better than The Departed. The latter is almost an hour longer and that adds nothing to the film as you have a love triangle for really no reason. The ending for The Departed is also quite a bit worse and as Hollywood-afied as you can make it and Marky Mark's character is just added to the movie so that can happen essentially. Every tense scene in the original is less tense in The Departed; for example, in The Departed the fate of the Police Chief is super obviously apparent whereas you don't know what's going to happen to him in Infernal Affairs.A ★★★★★ review of Infernal Affairs (2002)
“Think about it. A man with 28 personalities. That means the second he wakes up, he starts role playing. He starts to forget which one is the “real” him.” While the writer of this film, Alan Mak, had wanted to make a police and gangster film for a while, his specific inspiration for this movie...
Infernal Affairs was such a surprise movie for me because based on the horrible American cover art I thought it was going to be a Hong Kong action flick. Then, as I'm watching the movie, I realize it's a gangster movie (and I usually hate gangster movies), but then like an hour in or whatever, I'm like "this movie is really fucking good".
The Naked Gun (2025)
Did what it’s meant to do, even if it kinda sputtered through the finale. It much else to say other than it’s existence is justified by both the writing and performances honoring what came before it, as well as keeping the torch lit.
Did what it’s meant to do, even if it kinda sputtered through the finale. It much else to say other than it’s existence is justified by both the writing and performances honoring what came before it, as well as keeping the torch lit.
A ★★★★ review of Sinister (2012)
“Listen to me, Mr. Oswalt. If you sleep in this house, it’s just going to do terrible things to your head." The writer of this movie, C. Robert Cargill, was inspired after watching the movie The Ring, but rather than a ghost girl, decided on a take on the Boogeyman. While the initial idea was...
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What the Waters Left Behind ("Los olvidados")
Blatant rip-off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Starts with a bunch of filthy hippies in a van enroute to shooting a documentary, ends with a horrorshow banquet hosted by a family of creeps where the main course... is to die for muahahahahahahahahahaha it's flesh it's human flesh.
The selling point here is the real-life location of Epecuén, a lakeside town that was suddenly flooded in the 80s and today its ruins make for a scenic, watery ghost town that immediately add production value to any shoot. So it's kind of a bummer that all they could think of was to reskin Chainsaw.
Thing is there's a lavishness to the blocking and composition (including one too many drone shots) that goes against the faux grimy documentary thing they're shooting for, and a lot of the blocking and directorial choices that're trying to be scary or sexy or whatever just fall flat or comical.
The bottom line is that Texas Chainsaw Massacre always felt plausible. There's the Texas in the title, but the point to me was that a wrong turn anywhere in the middle of bumfuck nowhere might put you in murder country. Here Epecuén, with its insistence on lore and heritage, is elevated by a Gothic grandeur that makes everything feel theatrical and phony. The movie starts with a scene of a girl screaming and running away from an attacker wearing a bullhead before getting brained, and the whole thing is so cheesy and hackneyed that I thought it would be revealed to be the movie the characters were making. Then the title dropped and I gave any hopes up.
Blatant rip-off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Starts with a bunch of filthy hippies in a van enroute to shooting a documentary, ends with a horrorshow banquet hosted by a family of creeps where the main course... is to die for muahahahahahahahahahaha it's flesh it's human flesh.
The selling point here is the real-life location of Epecuén, a lakeside town that was suddenly flooded in the 80s and today its ruins make for a scenic, watery ghost town that immediately add production value to any shoot. So it's kind of a bummer that all they could think of was to reskin Chainsaw.
Thing is there's a lavishness to the blocking and composition (including one too many drone shots) that goes against the faux grimy documentary thing they're shooting for, and a lot of the blocking and directorial choices that're trying to be scary or sexy or whatever just fall flat or comical.
The bottom line is that Texas Chainsaw Massacre always felt plausible. There's the Texas in the title, but the point to me was that a wrong turn anywhere in the middle of bumfuck nowhere might put you in murder country. Here Epecuén, with its insistence on lore and heritage, is elevated by a Gothic grandeur that makes everything feel theatrical and phony. The movie starts with a scene of a girl screaming and running away from an attacker wearing a bullhead before getting brained, and the whole thing is so cheesy and hackneyed that I thought it would be revealed to be the movie the characters were making. Then the title dropped and I gave any hopes up.
A ★★★★ review of Zombieland (2009)
“Time to nut up or shut up.” The idea for this movie had been in the minds of writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick for a while. However, while they originally conceived of a spec script for a television pilot, it was soon developed into a movie with the help of director Ruben Fleischer, who also...
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1978
Another horror movie from the Onetti Bros (who made What the Waters Left Behind/Los olvidados). It's the better movie and makes for a nice showcase of young talented people making a quantum leap in quality in their sophomore (?) project while still banging the same drum.
It's an all-in-one-night movie, set in 1978, which is the year in which 1) Argentina hosted and won the FIFA World Cup while 2) under a brutal military dictatorship that caused 30,000 deaths and disappearances. So it's military torturers watching the world cup final late at night at a clandestine detention center, which immediately kills muh immersion, because I spend the rest of the movie thinking there's no fucking way the final was played at night. I texted mom and dad while watching to confirm or deny the time and mom doesn't remember but dad remembers partying in the streets in the afternoon so there.
In any case the torturers fuck up by unwittingly kidnapping a satanic cabal and unleashing demonic forces, mostly upon themselves, so there's little tension to the horror. Even when the last half hour focuses exclusively on a handful of innocents trying to make a run for it I'm thinking, all they've known is torture the whole movie, and we don't know them as anything other than broken shells, so there isn't much tension to their escape either. Their deaths feel more random than their torture scenes, too.
Another horror movie from the Onetti Bros (who made What the Waters Left Behind/Los olvidados). It's the better movie and makes for a nice showcase of young talented people making a quantum leap in quality in their sophomore (?) project while still banging the same drum.
It's an all-in-one-night movie, set in 1978, which is the year in which 1) Argentina hosted and won the FIFA World Cup while 2) under a brutal military dictatorship that caused 30,000 deaths and disappearances. So it's military torturers watching the world cup final late at night at a clandestine detention center, which immediately kills muh immersion, because I spend the rest of the movie thinking there's no fucking way the final was played at night. I texted mom and dad while watching to confirm or deny the time and mom doesn't remember but dad remembers partying in the streets in the afternoon so there.
In any case the torturers fuck up by unwittingly kidnapping a satanic cabal and unleashing demonic forces, mostly upon themselves, so there's little tension to the horror. Even when the last half hour focuses exclusively on a handful of innocents trying to make a run for it I'm thinking, all they've known is torture the whole movie, and we don't know them as anything other than broken shells, so there isn't much tension to their escape either. Their deaths feel more random than their torture scenes, too.
A ★★★★ review of The Craft (1996)
“If God and the Devil played football, Manon would be the stadium that they played on. It would be the sun that shone down on them.” This film was made as a collaboration between producer Douglas Wick, who had a concept blending together high school life and witchcraft, and writer Peter Filardi...
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I was most impressed by Sean Penn. On an unconscious level I recognized him, but I was so fully convinced by the performance, I didn't realize it was him until the credits rolled. "Wait, Sean Penn was in this? Who? Oh shit, the colonel"
A ½ review of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
"You left." This film was put into production pretty much as soon as Winnie the Pooh entered public domain, allowing the characters to be used. However, due to the fact that the Disney versions of the characters are still under copyright, the characters had to be altered significantly in order...
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Hundreds of Beavers, 9/10
This is the Canadian indie sleeper hit from 2022. It's a slapstick comedy about a trapper in the frozen wilderness who is trying to win the hand of the local merchant's daughter by bringing him beaver pelts. The plot is decidedly shallow, because this movie is all about its presentation, which is best described as a black and white silent film in the style of Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton with a heavy dose of internet-era absurdism. The presentation is deliberately cheap and shitty-looking with cheap costumes, tons of obvious green screen, and animation reminiscient of Terry Gilliam or early internet flash cartoons. But it's so committed to the bit and creative that it ends up being one of the most unique movie experiences of the decade. In addition to the aforementioned inspirations, it also includes straight up video game-style graphics to show how many pelts the trapper has acquired, and the merchant has a board displaying all the different items he can accrue with different resources, throwing in a dose of Age of Empires or survival crafting games into its wild mix of influences. And some action scenes could be straight from a Crash Bandicoot level.
I loved it. It's incredibly unique, energetic and entertaining. It's a film that can truly be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age, language or culture. There truly is no other film like it: it's a combination of homage to a bygone era, love for filmmaking, and a high-effort shitpost. Towards the end the movie gets truly completely absurd, and the creativity with all the visual and slapstick gags stays all throughout the film. It was made for a paltry $150,000, which is truly remarkable even considering its deliberately lo-fi presentation. An absolute banger, and one I'm going to buy on physical media.
The Death of Stalin, 8/10
On the other end of the comedy spectrum we have this, a very dark and grounded comedy about very real situations with the highest of stakes. It's about - you guessed it - the death of Stalin in 1954, and the consequent power struggle between the different members of the central committee. It's got an absolutely stacked cast with Steve Buscemi, Paddy Considine, Olga Kyrulenko and Jeffrey Tambor among others. It's also very good, mostly thanks to the stellar acting. It's one of those movies where you'll be laughing, and then realize you're laughing at horrible things and feel kind of uncomfortable. It manages to derive a lot of humor from just a bunch of old men bickering with each other and moving very awkwardly. Apparenly it's also quite historically accurate to the events, so props for that.
This is the Canadian indie sleeper hit from 2022. It's a slapstick comedy about a trapper in the frozen wilderness who is trying to win the hand of the local merchant's daughter by bringing him beaver pelts. The plot is decidedly shallow, because this movie is all about its presentation, which is best described as a black and white silent film in the style of Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton with a heavy dose of internet-era absurdism. The presentation is deliberately cheap and shitty-looking with cheap costumes, tons of obvious green screen, and animation reminiscient of Terry Gilliam or early internet flash cartoons. But it's so committed to the bit and creative that it ends up being one of the most unique movie experiences of the decade. In addition to the aforementioned inspirations, it also includes straight up video game-style graphics to show how many pelts the trapper has acquired, and the merchant has a board displaying all the different items he can accrue with different resources, throwing in a dose of Age of Empires or survival crafting games into its wild mix of influences. And some action scenes could be straight from a Crash Bandicoot level.
I loved it. It's incredibly unique, energetic and entertaining. It's a film that can truly be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age, language or culture. There truly is no other film like it: it's a combination of homage to a bygone era, love for filmmaking, and a high-effort shitpost. Towards the end the movie gets truly completely absurd, and the creativity with all the visual and slapstick gags stays all throughout the film. It was made for a paltry $150,000, which is truly remarkable even considering its deliberately lo-fi presentation. An absolute banger, and one I'm going to buy on physical media.
The Death of Stalin, 8/10
On the other end of the comedy spectrum we have this, a very dark and grounded comedy about very real situations with the highest of stakes. It's about - you guessed it - the death of Stalin in 1954, and the consequent power struggle between the different members of the central committee. It's got an absolutely stacked cast with Steve Buscemi, Paddy Considine, Olga Kyrulenko and Jeffrey Tambor among others. It's also very good, mostly thanks to the stellar acting. It's one of those movies where you'll be laughing, and then realize you're laughing at horrible things and feel kind of uncomfortable. It manages to derive a lot of humor from just a bunch of old men bickering with each other and moving very awkwardly. Apparenly it's also quite historically accurate to the events, so props for that.
As well as Hundreds of Beavers the same basic team made Lake Michigan Monster, it's apparently even weirder than Hundreds of Beavers (not the former myself yet but absolutely would recommend Hundreds of Beavers)
Steve
Cillian Murphy's new Netflix movie, very glum and dramatic until we hit a corny, optimistic ending. He's the headteacher at a school for kids with violent tendencies. There's a camera crew shooting footage and interviews for TV, and they've just been told that the school's closing within 6 months, and there's an MP visiting, and Cillian's wrestling with booze and oxy, and I have a bad feeling about Suicidey, etc. Chaotic day ensues.
Cillian Murphy's new Netflix movie, very glum and dramatic until we hit a corny, optimistic ending. He's the headteacher at a school for kids with violent tendencies. There's a camera crew shooting footage and interviews for TV, and they've just been told that the school's closing within 6 months, and there's an MP visiting, and Cillian's wrestling with booze and oxy, and I have a bad feeling about Suicidey, etc. Chaotic day ensues.
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