Chase Reed

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Favorite films

  • Close-Up
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Inherent Vice

All
  • Peter's Computer - Desktop Cleanup

  • Mike and Melissa

    ½

  • Slugs

  • Clown in a Cornfield

    ★★★

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Please Baby Please

2022

★★★★★ Liked Watched

500th film in my Letterboxd diary and what a perfect film to mark the occasion

Paint

2023

★½ Watched

Not good. I can see parts where this may have shone a little more brightly on the page but all of the scenes felt awkwardly stitched together and the performances were underwhelming to boot. Many characters/arcs were underdeveloped and for a movie “about” an artist who painted indelibly serene images there was maybe one shot that was composed in a painterly manner.

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Assault on Precinct 13

1976

★★★½ Liked Watched

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

Scream VI

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

What if—bear with me here—I were to tell you the new Scream films (and by new I’m exclusively referring to 2022 and SCREAMVI, not the latter-day Wes Craven-directed Scream 4) are, in fact, the stone-cold cleverest ‘puzzle box’ films you’ll ever have the pleasure of watching in your life, if you know what to look for?

What if I suggested that there’s a hidden subtext to these films that only the craziest, conspiracy-minded, batshit-insane viewers would ever catch onto?

What if I posited that…