A breezy, obligatory blip on the radar as far as Holiday slashers go. This one is actually less of a Holiday slasher, and more of an inverted Hallmark movie featuring a lesbian fantasy that occasionally has a killer show up randomly. But it does, at least formally, have the same gimmick as Happy Death Day, Freaky, and Totally Killer in that it remakes a family-friendly gimmick sci-fi/fantasy movie that has a character in an alternate body/timeline/universe. It was co-produced by…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
I often find myself worrying about how dated a movie is at release, or at the very least I think about that fact when musing on the lasting impact a film may have and what it could mean for future generations instead of just our own. Will something stand the all-important time test? And even if it can’t…does that make something less good? Or does it mean it’s an event of the times, something tailor-made very intensely specific to a…
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Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea 2023
Deeply frustrating, overlong, and obvious exploration of bullshit macho possessiveness of women and the loss of a loved one in the most simultaneously cringe and distant manner possible.
Straight-up soap-opera with no camp that never manages to make either its characters' actions OR the setting believable for a second. Why, in this alternate 1969, have robotics and space travel advanced to Star Trek levels but literally everything else is the same? Same society, same social mores, a Manson-like cult, even…
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Black Mirror: Loch Henry 2023
Not very good. An acerbic takedown of true crime documentaries and our collective obsession with them, in addition to offering a critique of how they are framed and edited, that never once explains why making these shows is bad or why liking them is bad. The attempt to say "these are real people and we shouldn't be exploiting them for profit" is completely undone by the fact that this is a show with actors that relies on banking on the…
