Rich people drama. Docuseries on HBO about a family that USED to be above the law. type of families I went to school with. Entitled, rules don't apply to them, parents have a Wikipedia page, so forth.
The film is about a set of twins with a very complex relationship with their mother who had some sort of facial trauma. They live in a large isolated house where their mother seems off. The boys begin to question the mother's identity, believing that she isn't the same person as the one who went into the hospital. They begin to question if she is their real mother, and then, where their real is if this is in fact not the woman they know.
Slow burn leads to a horrific ending. The audience, like the boys, are never sure if this is a stand-in until the end, when the unimaginable answer becomes definitive. I see it has been remade in English with Naomi Watts as the "mother." I don't recommend that either.
The gist is a widow whose husband just committed suicide begins to figure his disturbing secrets. Ends up finding this murder house he built in the woods that is exactly like their house except for sort of off and unfinished. All is not what it seems.
Interesting movie. One of the ghost-as-a-metaphor movies. Like the Babadook except without an annoying child.
Concept was super interesting. The inverse house adds to the whole dream quality. Similar to Us in that way.
More than decent (but forgettable) debut by Dave Franco. Stars the lovely Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Sheila Vand, and Jeremy Allen White. Toby Huss is also in it as a red herring. So, yeah, incredible cast.
It follows two couples who rent a house in the wilderness. Things start to happen and they suspect they are being watched. It's creepy as shit.
Things escalates. People make poor decision and get themselves killed. Recommend.
Gist is a guy who is out there killing prostitutes. One played by Ilenia Pastorelli, a very pretty lady, loses her sight in a car accident that results when the killer pushes her car into oncoming traffic. Her car hits and orphans a Chinese kid.
She eventually goes to visit the kid in an orphanage. He escapes and they make a deal. He’ll be her guide if she lets him stay there. Eventually, they get to tracking down the killer to get their revenge.
This all leads to a cool scene where her and the kid work together to try to shoot the killer.
Another cool scene comes when Pastorelli’s character gets lost in the woods and feels her way to a building. Once there, she accidentally turns the lights on and has to get them off before the killer shows.
It becomes clear at one point that Argento doesn't know much/anything about snakes.
Great dog movie. Good girl. Also, it is a positive portrayal of sex work. That’s sweet. Like Dressed to Kill, but not transphobic.
Weird to see a Rock movie where he is the fourth banana. Also, him and Terry Crews teaming up together is cray.
Lot of suspension of disbelief. Steve Carrell goes from paper-pusher to superhero as soon as he is promoted to field agent. Anne Hathaway, my queen, was looking fine though.
It’s almost humorous how elaborate the plot gets. Lotta Fincher themes getting explored here and done really well. Narcissistic sociopathy. Check. Scathing media takedown. Check. Trouble relationships with money and power. Check. Extreme misogyny. Triple check there. Amanda Dobbins, whom I love on The Ringer, asks if the film is “a misogynistic summary of all the ways that a woman can falsely accuse a man.“ Also, based on a Gillian Flynn novel.
The Amazing Amy shit is a really great way to fuck somebody up. She has no real friends, a total sociopath, the only people in her life are her parents and people she’s manipulating (her husband, the dumb pregnant girl, so forth), but she is pretty capable and plays a great victim. Her husband, Ben Affleck’s character Nick, is really gonna have a shitty life. And in the end, they’re back where they started, in a loveless marriage but now there are no illusions, I guess. Here you are raising a child with a woman that was going to kill herself to frame you. That kid is going to be fucked, one of her playthings.
Loved Tyler Perry. Wasn't a fan Neil Patrick Harris. Structure of the movie is pretty good. One thing I couldn’t really get behind is how the detective and everyone when the gone girl returns after having obviously murdered someone is just like, “meh, it was just a goof.” White people are indeed crazy.
A frontier/cannibal comedy-western about getting "the hunger" after eating human flesh as well as coked-up energy and super healing. It was pretty great.
I somehow watch a lot of cannibalism movies. I can’t stomach the thought of meat—long time vegan. (Parker is rumored to have been a vegetarian after this all went down, by the by). I feel like a starving in the wilderness scenario would be the only way I would ever eat meat again. But that would indeed be some shit that I would t be able to bounce back from. It’s one thing to say that you could do it if you were starving. But having a chunk of long-pig in front of you that you gotta eat to live. That would fuck up me real bad. So, yeah, exploring the deep questions here. Ye olde “would you eat someone” dilemma.
Pretty terrible and quite offensive. I feel like it was pretty inappropriate in 2011, and has aged terribly. They call some shit “gay“ twice, for example. The combination of racial, rape, child pornography, and children doing drugs humor is really something. Not exactly a Christmas classic.
