4K night

Steph:

Davis excels at portraying her dual role; I found her character witty and resourceful and entertaining to watch destroy shit, and I liked Jackson too, he was hilarious and endearing, a highlight of the film for me, not to mention that little girl almost making me sob in all her scenes, and while a ton of implausible plot points showed up, including the fact that none of the good guys seemed human—they couldn’t die, not after flying…

Secret Movie Club—Josh’s pick

Josh:

I was kind of on the fence for a lot of this, with its very confident direction and maybe slightly less confident screenwriting, with a really strong, endearing lead performance from Melissa Barrera, and I guess maybe I expected Lindy to play up the horror elements more, or to create more ambiguity about Monster’s existence, but I think she wraps it up just perfectly, almost Immaculate-esque in the stunning, satisfying way the work reveals itself…

Steph:

Here’s another film about dead women driving a dude’s plot forward and how murder is such a turn on and something about art and snakes and mythology, which feels like it’s in there as some kind of pretentious performativity, and I would’ve laughed out loud through the whole thing if the film ever managed to land on a tone.
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Josh:

This starts out so slick and cold and giallo-esque that my heart started racing, and “act one” is…