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  Omen IV: The Awakening 1991

  Watched 27 May 2023

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

  This film came out a year after PROBLEM CHILD, and owes more to that film than the original OMEN trilogy, which so thoroughly dropped the ball with its conclusion they let this one call itself Part 4 and even use Jerry Goldsmith's "Ave Satani." Bereft of the conspiring cabal who protected her father Damien until late in the movie, Delia (a very good Asia Vieira*) is largely on her own to wreak psychological vengeance on school bullies, dispatch suspicious nannies…

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  The Menu 2022

  Watched 15 Jan 2023 2

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

  I'd have given the movie five stars if we could have seen Anya Taylor-Joy just house that entire burger.

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  Candyman 2021

  Watched 26 Aug 2021

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

  Half Jordan Peele thesis paper, half mess.

  I know we're supposed to call this "Nia DaCosta's CANDYMAN," but it shares with Peele's other movies a social statement that's somehow both glaringly obvious and fundamentally incoherent. The movie can't resist connecting #SayHisName to the basic concept of naming the hook-handed mirror ghost to bring him forward, but who is this version of the monster supposed to be punishing? Cops? Teenagers who take selfies? Successful black couples who try to pretend they…

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  Hotel Room 1993

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  Early 90's American auteurs were obsessed with hotels and bellhops, as evidenced by BARTON FINK, MYSTERY TRAIN and the collective group of indie darlings who came together to create FOUR ROOMS (interesting fact: Steve Buscemi turned down the part of the bellboy in that one, not wanting to essentially reprise his role from FINK). Lynch wasn't about to be left in the lurch, producing his own hotel-based anthology film as a television project: three stories, all set in the same…