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  Dune 1984

  ★★★ Watched by Evan Benner 08 May 2022

  Does literally no one in this universe know how to keep their thoughts to themselves? Shush, expository VO!

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  Frontier(s) 2007

  ★½ Watched by Evan Benner 28 Apr 2022

  Interesting and unsettling as an idea. Unfortunately, I feel nothing but disinterest and disgust for this contemptuous mess, and that's not a sensation I enjoy devoting nearly two agonizingly long hours toward.

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  Color Out of Space 2019

  ★★★½ Watched by Evan Benner 15 Sep 2020

  This is my first selection for HoopTober 7.0.

  Richard Stanley's Color Out of Space draws on some quality influences. The Blob, The Thing, and Mandy come to mind. It does these all justice.

  I'd been super eager to see this ever since it was first teased but didn't make it out for the limited theater run. Got extra excited when it was announced for Shudder streaming, so these past two weeks have been a practice in patience to save this…

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  The Invisible Man 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched by Evan Benner 19 Sep 2020

  Film #4 of 31 in my HoopTober 7.0 selection.

  The Invisible Man is probably my favorite of the Universal classics, and this timely update reinforces that preference. Appropriately, it's an Invisible Man for the Black Mirror age with contemporary anxieties under the microscope.

  Elisabeth Moss, as Cecilia, lays claim to our fullest sympathies throughout her long and arduous ordeal as she is haunted by her manipulative and possessive a-hole of a boyfriend, Adrian (a Silicon Valley luminary played menacingly by…