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I Was Spud
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Don’t expect much but takes on film, sports, and other useless thoughts.
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A ★★★★ review of Bugonia (2025)
Yorgos Lanthimos has once again delivered a film that refuses to be categorized, and this may be his most audaciously strange work yet. The Golden Globes call this a comedy. Is it? The answer is chara...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Nouvelle Vague (2025)
There’s something genuinely refreshing about watching Richard Linklater lean fully into his cinephilia and craft a film that unapologetically caters to film enthusiasts. The irony is delicious: the Fr...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025)
I have a 45 minute commute to work every day. After five years working from home and fifteen years before that working ten minutes from home, I finally have the bane of the “lost hours” in the day. It...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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A ★★★★ review of KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
This is the kind of animated film that reminds adults why they fell in love with animation in the first place. It channels the same frenetic, eye-popping energy that made Into the Spiderverse such a v...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025)
Jacob Elordi’s creature bears an unsettling resemblance to the humanoid figure from Tool’s “Schism” music video - all sinew, exposed musculature, and raw vulnerability. Why do filmmakers feel compelle...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Black Bag (2025)
What the worst Bond movies (I haven’t seen all of them) get wrong is trying to inject too much innuendo and sex into their premise, treating espionage as merely foreplay to bedroom escapades. Spy movi...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Sorry, Baby (2025)
Where the hell is this college?? I gather by John Carroll Lynch’s accent that it’s somewhere in the New England region, though the film deliberately keeps its setting ambiguous, adding to its dreamlik...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A ★★★★ review of The Naked Gun (2025)
I came late to the original Naked Gun. I saw Airplane! as a kid and loved Leslie Nielsen in it, but never actually watched the original Naked Gun until sometime in the last five years. I still haven’t...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A ★★½ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)
Before I get into this, I want to make it clear: I hate the title of this movie. It sounds like the title of a 90’s MTV show about underground house musicians or something - like it should be sandwich...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A ★★★ review of Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
“I almost think the devil is here.” “No, just poverty and ignorance.” Jeez Paul. What a jerk. Look, I typically can’t stand 80’s giallo - the garish colors, the convoluted plots, the gratuitous everyt...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Hush (2016)
More horror movie psychos should have crossbows. I’m not a Mike Flanagan aficionado, but I respect his craft. I like Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game quite a bit; I can do without Oculus and Absentia. T...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A ★★★½ review of Chopping Mall (1986)
At BJ’s, our local warehouse store, there’s a robot that rolls around checking stock. It makes little digital whistle noises while it works, and I love it so much. I watched the original Dawn of the D...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Weapons (2025)
Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian is a film that shouldn’t work but absolutely does. Weapons is a maddening, mesmerizing puzzle box that withholds answers with almost perverse glee - and I mean th...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Presence (2024)
If you took Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void and David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, added Lucy Liu, shook it up and really let it settle, you’d come close to this. Steven Soderbergh can make whatever kind of mo...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A ★★★ review of Heretic (2024)
This promises intellectual horror but retreats from its boldest ideas. Hugh Grant delivers a controlled performance as Mr. Reed, transforming his trademark charm into something genuinely unsettling. H...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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A ★★★ review of The Visit (2015)
The weirdest thing about my grandparents’ house growing up was when you turned on their basement light, it also turned on the radio down there, which played a country music station. M. Night Shyamalan...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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A ★★½ review of Willy's Wonderland (2021)
I could write the exact same review of this that I did for Five Nights at Freddy’s. This is what I wrote: “This movie spent too much time trying to build out a backstory that was more sophisticated th...
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October 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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A ★★½ review of World War Z (2013)
I needed a mindless palate cleanser after Salo. This is a frustrating paradox: an action-horror spectacle that somehow manages to be boring. For fans of Max Brooks’ quality oral history novel, the dis...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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A ★★★ review of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
“Political art horror film.” That’s what Wikipedia calls the genre of this film. Now, I’ve seen a lot of movies. Many of them strange. Some of them disturbing. But nothing can quite prepare you for th...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A ★★★ review of The Monkey (2025)
Osgood Perkins has spent his career crafting slow-burn horror that prizes atmosphere over all else - moody, stylish films that linger in shadows and silences. With this film, adapted from Stephen King...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Revenge (2017)
For anybody who’s hypercritical of this film because it’s “unrealistic,” just pretend you’re watching Halloween and Michael Myers is the good guy. Same idea. Jen (Matilda Lutz) is “the shape” and cann...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A ★★★½ review of The Rapture (1991)
Now, this was billed as a horror movie. It kind of is, in the sense that all those movies that get made by Angel Studios could be horror films if you just adjusted the delivery dial a little. This is ...
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October 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A ★★★½ review of Dawn of the Dead (1978)
I had such high hopes for this film. I’d heard good things and Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead is so groundbreaking. It delivers, though it requires patience, especially for audiences who’v...
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October 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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A ★★★ review of The Coffee Table (2022)
There are standard horror movies—your monster flicks and ghost stories. There are slasher and slasher-adjacent films like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street. There are psychologic...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Bring Her Back (2025)
A chilling psychological descent, this film showcases one of the year’s most unsettling screen performances. Word to the wise: if your new foster mom keeps another kid locked in a room, you should ass...
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October 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM