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  Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues 1984

  ★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  The 1972 docudrama, The Legend of Boggy Creek, which was shot in 16mm by director Charles B. Pierce on a reported budget of $165,000, featured interviews with residents who claim to have seen the legendary "Fouke Monster”, a hairy seven-foot-tall Bigfoot-type creature that is occasionally glimpsed on the woody outskirts of town, along with several reenactments of sightings. The end result was a huge success at drive-in cinemas, earning roughly $20 million at the box office to become one of…

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2023

  My favorite film of the year is a Godzilla movie. I did not see that coming.

  The 2023 Japanese kaiju feature, Godzilla Minus One, written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, may wear its melodrama on its sleeve while paying overt homage to past classics like the original 1954 Godzilla and to Steven Spielberg's Jaws, but it also beautifully conveys the inherent anti-war subtext of the almost 70 year-old franchise while maintaining a fun-spirited aura of rambunctiously destructive monster mayhem. In…

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  Suspiria 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2018 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  After leaving her Ohio home and her Mennonite family, Susie, played by Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey), travels overseas to West Berlin in 1977 for admission to the Markos Dance Academy, a prestigious school governed by a group of matrons, including Madame Blanc, a stern instructor played by Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange). Meanwhile, an elderly male therapist, also portrayed by Swinton in heavy prosthetic makeup, grows increasingly suspicious while investigating the disappearance of one of the school's former dance…

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  Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Jul 2019 6

  In 1969, the landscape of Los Angeles is changing. The golden age of Hollywood is in the rear view mirror, as earnestly charismatic icons of cinema are ushered out in favor of complex antihero characters in increasingly cynical stories. The idealistic hippie dreams of peace and love are being corrupted with shady undercurrents. Through it all, however, traces of classic glamour, starstruck wonder, and ambitious hopes can still be glimpsed through the tendrils of cigarette smoke.

  Years after his heyday…

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