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Dario Argento finally made a thriller again, and not that..God-awful crime against cinema Dracula 3D, lol.

A prostitute is blinded and targeted by a killer, but joins up with a child to try to survive.

Sounds familiar huh? Yeah, this is pretty much a wink and nod at his previous films, mainly The Cat O'Nine Tails, but it also has details reminiscent of Suspiria and Tenebrae. While I never felt this was truly awful, it was also never great, Dario…

I love a good Baz Luhrmann movie but someone needs to slap the budget out his hands sometimes, haha.

This Elvis biopic, told through the eyes of his strange and nefarious business manager Colonel Parker (Tom Hanks), is a dizzying montage of endless flash, cameras twirling and tilting and CGI overlays and flashing lights and comic book panels and splitscreens and rap music and just.. it's like being inside the world's most gorgeous dryer set to high spin. Staggering in…

Comanche version (under Disney+ Bonus Features tab).

There are exactly two things I dislike about Prey, in particular this Comanche version:

1. The "we are tough men and you're a woman and can't hang with us" stuff. A little on the nose and out of place. Writing strong women doesn't necessitate writing stupid men. Small thing but it's there.

2. That it is an American English production which was dubbed into a special Comanche language version. It should be the…

Finally watched this with my brother, had the Disney+ version so we had the full Dolby Vision experience, Atmos was downsampled but still sounded great (pulled out two speakers and the big old subwoofer).

This was everything I wanted. Best Predator movie in the entire franchise for me, hands down. It's grounded, patient and brilliantly conceived: simply set in the 18th century in the Comanche nation, where the first ever Yautja lands and comes across the young hunter in training…

Warning: this review may contain bursts of uncontrolled late night sarcasm.

I'm not watching Prey until tomorrow (promised my brother we would watch it together, that was a tough one!), but catching up on a few I've wanted to see between episodes of The Sandman. This is unfortunately Alex Garland's first misfire, but oh boy what a misfire it is. Or should I say oh man?

A woman wrought with emotions over her ex's death comes to a cottage in…

Finally watched the Vinegar Syndrome 4K edition of this, beautifully done with massive 16mm grain all over. It's a few seconds longer than previous editions (the female client just leaves Madeleine lying naked as she prepares), and while it's not perfect, there's a very small amount of hairs, scratches or debris overall. The DTS-HD mono track is also clearer than ever, especially those horrible grating noises in the score in the adult scenes.

Is this some landmark of cinema? No,…

One of the movies WB recently axed along with the likes of Batgirl was a sequel to this, and it was very close to being fully completed as well. Figured I'd finally bite the bullet on HBO Max to see if we lost anything decent.

In my humble opinion, no. 😂 Not even a little bit.

There's a moment in Scoob! early on, after the obligatory schmaltzy "we met as kids" scenes (what's up with that trend lately?), when a…

Pat Carroll passed away recently, overshadowed by the death of the great Nichelle Nichols, so I was reminded to continue my Disney 4K viewing.

Here's the honest truth: this looks good but it's never amazing. I think this was originally a 2K scan, and as with the rest there's a ton of DNR, plus the HDR isn't much to write home about either (a few moments like Poor Unfortunate Souls look a tad better, but that's about it). I think…

A three-part Netflix documentary series about the catastrophic Woodstock '99 concert, which turned completely destructive and chaotic and was the antithesis of the hippie love celebration of the legendary concert thirty years earlier.

It's really interesting to see the powder keg this was, and above all I think it's a really great time capsule of growing up in the 90's. I was 12 at the time, and you could feel things shifting growing up, almost in the air: the 90's…