watching the movies to make for myself a patchwork redoubt out of them
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Ghost Stories 1987
There's time left this season for an expert consultation on structuring the merry amends to your grinchtrodden dog at the goblins' ġēol gaol.
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Guilty Pleasures 1997
Just minor impressions left by these two tales--a drowsy, reminding-me-I-wanna-rewatch-Disconnected segment and then just a practicable fuel for that Sasha Graham crush.
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Sadako vs. Kayako 2016
my top 5 most wanted horror vs horror movies
5. Rumpelstiltskin vs The VVitch
4. Candyman vs Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (must have this exact title)
3. Gremlins vs Ghoulies vs Beasties vs Critters vs the gnome from Cat's Eye vs The Pit vs The Brood
2. Don't Look Now vs God Told Me To
1. Maximum Overdrive vs Tremors -
0.5 mm 2014
This wiped me out. Unsparing, so the elderly aren't magical lessons, but whole & broken, deteriorating people, for whom aging is agency & desire dwindled to the immaterial & unrealized, and these needs are ever-immediate, not receding, not unstuck & out of time. And it's so outrageously funny--Sawa bundles old men into her mercenary care arrangements with flurries of confusion & threats & blackmail. But she's a vital reciprocating presence in lives that have gone without, and out of her strong arm initiations comes this rough…
