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  Postcards From the Edge 1990

  ★★★★ Rewatched by Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 27 Jun 2022

  Wise and funny and so well-acted. Saw this at the theater when I was 12, loved it then too, I must have been a pretty worldly 12-year-old!

  Meryl Streep is beyond great here, such a radiant ending, too.

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  The Black Phone 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 27 Jun 2022

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

  A bleak and disturbing horror film that is somehow simultaneously a rousing, emotionally gratifying, edge-of-your-seat crowd pleaser. Also not surprising that it’s just a real good yarn, being based on a story by the son of Stephen King.

  It was gunning for a solid 4.5/5 but it seemed to wrap itself up far too quickly and cleanly for me. After such a great buildup I wanted more of a climax. But I really loved it otherwise, and that might not bother me on subsequent viewings (of which there definitely will be some).

Popular reviews

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  Evil Dead 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched by Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 04 Apr 2013 25

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

  I've got way too many feelings (all of them positive) stirring around inside of me having just seen this phenomenally entertaining remake/tribute to write a proper review, so I'm just going to list some of the many things I love about it.

  I love...

  1. ...the fact that it pays significant tribute to both 1981's landmark EVIL DEAD and 1987's absurdly creative EVIL DEAD II, in a number of interesting ways while also containing many great surprises of its own.…

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  The Fly 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 08 Sep 2013 15

  It's been a Cronenberg family kind of day, what can I say?

  How can a movie simultaneously be one of the most viscerally disturbing monster movies ever AND one of the most heartbreaking, tragic love stories of the 1980s? It's a rarity to find a movie that hits so squarely on all intended marks (scares, suspense, gross-out moments, special effects, emotional intensity...), but David Cronenberg's still-stunning remake of THE FLY (oh yeah, it's also one of the greatest remakes of…