“Tell ‘em I’m going fishing.”
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The Bob's Burgers Movie 2022
“It’s gonna be the sunny-side-up summer of our lives!”
If you know me, you know there was no reality in which I wasn’t going to love this.
I can’t escape the feeling that there were missed opportunities to include beloved regular characters, but overall this delivered on just about all of my (albeit low) expectations.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
“Just be a rock.”
A hilarious and heartfelt romp through the multiverse that’s as preposterous as it is life-affirming. An absurdist cure for the Everything Is Terrible Blues.
I loved every second.
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The Batman 2022
“Fear is a tool.”
This shreds so hard. Equal parts brooding detective procedural//gritty crime thriller with effective horror elements mixed in to boot.
A certified banger.
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
“All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.”
It breaks me more every year.
I think it’s long overdue that I reevaluate my all-time list and bump up IaWL’s position, I really think it might be top 5 at this point.
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Halloween Kills 2021
“This was a safe place and now it’s not anymore.”
My love for the ‘78 Halloween is always solidified in its final moments when Laurie, having stared evil in the face, reckons with the fact that she will never feel safe in this world again. Even in the presence of light, she now fears the dark.
Apropos that, every sequel in this series was at its strongest when it examined the legacy of trauma, and the screenplay for Kills hits all…
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Blood Red Sky 2021
I was drawn in by the preposterous plot description that I saw being tossed around twitter but I now realize that “Die Hard in an airplane with vampires” is reductive, inaccurate and unfair.
I was relieved when I saw the opening credits were in German because I wholeheartedly believe that an American studio/filmmaker absolutely would have made this the shit show I was expecting. but nope. fantastic creature effects, smooth (even if silly at times) plot progression, likable characters and logical setups/payoffs.
btw, my Netflix for some reason defaulted to the English audio and I had to manually change to the original German, that dubbing is horrendous.
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Fear Street: 1666 2021
“It doesn’t matter if we did it or not; they think we’re guilty, so we are.”
Just having recently read Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World, wherein he discusses (and laments) at length the fallibility of humans and how tragically easy it is for misinformation and hysteria to spread —at one point actually citing real texts from 17th/18th century European witch trials to highlight examples of how deadly and unfair the results can be— 1666 functions as both remarkable supplemental material for that…
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Fear Street: 1994 2021
“Sam’s not feeling like herself.”
I am allllllllllll in on this. Some small quibbles so far but they’re hardly worth mentioning. Suspend your disbelief and bask in the glory of this gory slasher that manages to walk the tight rope of including many of my favorite horror tropes while still feeling like its own thing.Very excited to see how this unravels.