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  • Backrooms

    ★★★★

  • Motivational Growth

    ★★★★

  • Sound of Violence

    ★★★★

  • Hush

    ★★★★

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Backrooms
★★★★ Liked Watched

Establishing shots.
I love it when I see a filmmaker put obvious thought & care into their establishing shots. The true literal liminal spaces of a movie, you're not meant to linger there, you're not meant really to notice them, the utilitarian drywall mud that holds the walls to each other at what are hopefully sane & uncomplicated angles but arcane inscriptions still have distorting power even with a coat of primer atop them. I've had a vague back-of-my-mind interest in horror…

Jackie Brown
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I never deign to tell people they're watching movies wrong or that I know better (unwise strat for a critic? put a pin in that) but after watching them back-to-back I genuinely don't understand how anyone could maintain that Pulp Fiction is a better film than Jackie Brown.

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Toolbox Murders
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The film that opened my eyes to Tobe Hooper's brilliance was neither The Texas Chain Saw Massacre nor Poltergeist (though I had previously seen both) but rather Toolbox Murders. I was 18 years old, living with my parents and unemployed, having withdrawn from college after a disastrous first semester. It was the beginning of a four-year spiral of depression, isolation and substance abuse: the darkest period of my life thus far.

I rented Toolbox Murders from my local Hollywood Video…

The First Purge
★★★★½ Liked Watched

#52FilmsByPOC 2018 pt. 20.

Attention filmmakers: I don't give a fuck. I'll take all the bad dialogue, bad acting, hackneyed storytelling and lopsided editing you can throw at me, as long as you give me something I can feel. This movie is ANGRY--at white supremacy and out-of-control capitalism, at the institutions that support them, at the lengths those institutions will go to uphold it while simultaneously denying it exists. It's a primal scream of a film, and I felt every…

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