i love that this movie is simultaneously the coolest & uncoolest (meant with the utmost endearment). glad we've passed through that stage of its dominance in the culture & its overexposure & endless spoofing so we could come back around to it fresh. we are now very familiar with the wachowski sisters unmistakable brand of goofy, broad strokes, big-hearted (sometimes naive & misguided) sci-fi, *giddy* to apply tropes & archetypes. we have a lot more context & evidence of their work to see this with more…

i love that this movie is simultaneously the coolest & uncoolest (meant with the utmost endearment). glad we've passed through that stage of its dominance in the culture & its overexposure & endless spoofing so we could come back around to it fresh. we are now very familiar with the wachowski sisters unmistakable brand of goofy, broad strokes, big-hearted (sometimes naive & misguided) sci-fi, *giddy* to apply tropes & archetypes. we have a lot more context & evidence of their work to see this with more…

these are just some thoughts. i admit to not engaging with the film itself in these reactions, just some scribblings. i saw the roadshow version.

I like nasty movies. I like nasty characters. I like nihilism. I like when movies are confrontational. I can't say I liked The Hateful Eight. I would be far more willing to embrace its vile attitudes if the story, characters, scenarios or story twists had any semblance of spark to them. But no. It doesn't.…

A bona-fide classic in my favorite subgenre of horror, that of the psychological. A lot of credit goes to Ira Levin’s novel which, though I haven’t read, I hear is an extremely close adaptation by Polanski down to apartment geography, color schemes and dialogue. It takes a plot that could have been very silly or campy in other hands and roots it in relatable fears and a very real sense of inevitability that remains very disturbing. I’m doubting that Polanski…