Tag: 2024
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Nosferatu (2024)
I just saw Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu and it was stupid crap. I was going to be kind and call it a mixed bag, but by the end of the film I had no impulse to be kind. It’s intriguing in its premise in that it’s based not so much on Bram Stoker’s original novel as…
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Conclave (2024)
I just saw Conclave and it was great. Based on a novel by Robert Harris, it deals with the sequestering period in the Catholic Church when a pope dies and the cardinals must elect their successor. Ralph Fiennes plays the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Thomas Lawrence, a stoic and serious man caught up…
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Trap (2024)
I just saw Trap and it were crap. (More like Claptrap, amirite?! My humblest apologies.) Of course it was, though, it’s by M Night Shyamalan. He’s only made crap for the last… what? 20 years? Apparently Split (2016) is worth a watch, but I’ve no desire to see another movie about M Night not understanding…
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
So I just saw Da Strange Peeps: Chatper Wun, and surprise surprise, it was a colossal mound of turd. Full disclosure: I’m not really the person to review this movie because I hate the Strangers franchise and concept. The first film, written and directed by then-newbie Bryan Bertino in 2008, was in his words loosely…
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