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The Return of Count Yorga -1971 okay this one ruled. Way better than the 1st. Everything is just a little bit more. More camp, more blood, more vampires, more grotesque. Yeah, I dug it.

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem-2024 a doc about the rise and fall of 4chan and it's effects on culture and politics. Sometimes I listen to podcasts about internet stuff because I know so little about what is happening culture wise on there. It can be really interesting to me. This was kind of my same idea. I think I would have fared better if I knew a little bit more about things (polotics, world events, and internet culture) going into watching this. It feels like when parents watch a doc or talk show about something street culture related and they think they are down and can therefore accurately judge and critique. But they really only have a very very peripheral understanding and in turn no understanding at all. That's how I feel after watching this. Maybe it's best I just stay in my lane. I have no idea what's going on, My G.

How The West Was Won -1962 a grand Hollywood epic with tons of stars and production money. Feels like one of those Disney family movies of yore. This was just okay for me and not really worth the almost 3 hour run time. Also, I love Jimmy Stewart. But casting him as a badass mountain man was not the move.

Valhalla Rising-2009 during Viking ish times a one eyed slave is repeatedly forced to fight to the death. He escapes with a boy and travels with a group of Christian warriors. Lots of cool visuals and trippy scenes. Some great gory violent deaths. I originally watched this because it was cut up to make a fan video for an Orange Goblin song. And the video rules. The movie was good, but I actually think the fan video might be better and all that you really need to watch. Mads Mikkelsen is great and Refn’s direction is colorful and interesting. The story needs a little bit of help though.

The Ugly Stepsister-2025 often times I hear “reimagined fairy tale” and it's really cheesy and heavy handed. This one was actually worth watching.
Every character has flaws and exhibits good and bad traits. There are definitely some flinch worthy body horror scenes. This sat well with me. The more time ed and I thought about it, the more I enjoyed it.

No Way Out-1950 Sidney Poitier plays a doctor trying to save a man who was shot. But eventually he dies and it results in a race riot. The version I watched of this censored the offensive language from the bigots. Which I think was in poor taste as reading between the lines of what was being said, it was so ugly, it added to your loathing and understanding. Heavy imagining this scenario happening and being the doctor in that situation where you can’t just think about your work, you have to think about how prejudiced society will react to what you are doing. As I am sure many Drs. have had to live through. But I hadn’t really thought about what that particular scenario would be like. Pretty well done, Poitier is always great, some of the other actors could step up a bit more.

Glass Onion-2022 kind of a part two for knives out in that it follows the detective from the first one, but that is the only connection. A whodunnit that takes place during the pandemic centering around an Elon Musk type and his group of friends. There's a fun Gordian knot moment with Janelle Monae’s character just smashing to an answer instead of wasting time solving a puzzle. I like these movies because 1. They are beautifully designed. The set and costumes are always extremely thought out and designed. 2. It's a good twisty detective story. 3. It's an ensemble cast who appear to be having fun with it and that definitely reads across the screen. This is nothing blowing your mind but still a light, easy enjoyable watch.

Friday-1995 drunken rewatch for the millionth time. This movie just doesn't get old for me. It's still just as funny as the first time I saw it and I almost every line. Truly a classic.

Born To Be Bad-1953 some conniving blonde (Joan Fontaine) moves in with a woman soon to be married to a very wealthy man. Naturally it's not only the apartment she's moving in on. This is fun because Fontaine is so hilariously faking demurity. Robert Ryan plays a wolf, so incredibly forward. He's got great lines like “I love you so much I wish I liked you”. Fontaine goes in and perfectly ruins everyone's lives but really it's their fault for falling for it. This would have been great but the ending doesn't commit and is pretty weak. Also the wealthy bachelor is a complete wet noodle jerk with no convictions. Shocker.

Auntie Mame-1958 loved this. Beautifully lit, reminiscent of its roots as a Broadway show. All of the clothing and interior design are worth the price of ission. Story is about an eccentric aunt who inherits her nephew after her brother dies. But more than that it is the story of her striving to not raise him into a yuppie pod person. Constantly battling against the bank and new englanders who want to turn him into a “top drawer” rich jerk. She wants him to appreciate the beauty in life. Feels incredibly ahead of its time and easily could have been made during the Reagan era or right now. Has a lot to say but is still light and easy to watch like a Broadway show. Also the kaleidoscope style credits in the opening scene are stunning. Just wow. I really enjoyed this.

Mad Dog and Glory-1993 De Niro plays a smart and friendly but mild mannered homicide detective who saves the life of Bill Murray-a big shot gangster/comedian? To repay De Niro, Murray gifts him Uma Thurman for a week. A kind of silly love story that has a fair amount of blood and violence. This was an odd film. Nothing you need to rush out and watch, but I enjoyed it more than I didn’t. You don’t need to change the channel if this just happened to come on.

Beggars of Life-1928 A farmer looking for sex adopts a girl (Louise Brooks) and gets to “pawing” at her. After killing him, she finds herself hopping freight trains with a hobo headed to Canada. He seems pretty righteous and gets to taking care of her. Starting with dressing her up like a boy. Every cop in the area is after them and hot on her trail. They wind up with a group of hobos who insist on keeping Brooks around with the intention of turning her into their gang rape fun girl. It’s disturbing how the leader of that gang is so diabolical and rapey then turns out to not be that bad of a guy? Hey-raping a minor is no big deal. A man has his needs. Brooks is excellent and does not ham it up too much like many silent film actors. Pretty good little adventure-ish tale with a feeling of urgency and dread throughout. Some of the plot points are so heavy but treated kind of lightly. Overall I enjoyed this quite a bit. Apparently the train wreck in the movie was real and the wreckage is still there. Some beautiful poetic quotes like the namesake: Ain't it funny when you think of the millions o' people in warm houses and feather beds, an' us just driftin' 'round like the clouds? But I guess it's about even when you boil it down. Even them people in feather beds ain't satisfied - we're all beggars of life.

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Red Rooms-2023 Yeah I really dug this. Not sure how I was supposed to feel by the end. In some ways you could look at it like this girl was doing all of this to try and really catch this guy. With the exception of the selfie she took in the dead girl’s room. On the other more likely hand you can look at it like this girl is insane obsessed and left the video of the youngest girl being killed at the mother’s house to fuck with her. But it doesn’t explain sending the bitcoin trail to the prosecution. A super weird examination at obsessive crazy chick characteristics. I guess not all of it makes a ton of sense. Either way, extremely well done, creepy and had you believing the atrocities committed were too horrific to even show in this movie. What you don’t see really is scarier than what you do. I went for a run after watching this and actually didn’t bring my headphones so I could spend the time just thinking about what I had just seen. Yeah, this was pretty excellent.

Tower of London-1962 More Vincent Price. A Roger Corman remake of the original 1939 movie (wild that Vincent Price is in both!). The grisly torture and evilness of the first is lost in this version with really crappy borderline comedic ghosts and Price’s over the top hammy performance. I probably would have liked this better had I not seen the original as the story and plot are pretty diabolical and make for a good movie. But the OG one crushes this so much there’s really no comparison and no point to watch this version.

Laura-1944 After being very publicly onished by two elderly queens (those bitches borderline threatened me) for not having watched this yet-I finally got to it. And of course they were right. This is a must see. Excellent film noir directed by Otto Preminger. Gene Tierney may be at her height of absolutely STUNNINGLY beautiful here. She plays a woman everyone loves but winds up dead. Vincent Price perfectly plays her slimy cheating boyfriend who also happens to be an older woman’s fuckboy. I gotta give it to him, he’s perfect in this role. Dana Andrews plays the detective investigating it all. Also perfect. Some great twists I didn’t see coming. Just all in all extremely strong in every aspect. Recommended.

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Ladies of Leisure-1930 Stanwyck’s first team up with Frank Capra. She plays a “paid party girl” who falls for a super wealthy painter. Shocker, his family doesn’t approve. Lots of downer moments that aren’t treated like that big of a deal. The film starts with Stanwyck meeting her rich beau after leaving a gangster’s boat party-her face streaked with tears and she’s clearly leaving in a big hurry. They never come out and call her a hooker but you get the picture. It’s definitely pretty heavy at times but still is a light hearted lil rags to riches love story? What can I say, even this early on Stany’s got the chops to pull this all off.
*after writing this I searched our messages and found your review. I feel like they really could have leaned into all of the despair and hopelessness of Stanwyck’s character more. Like realizing she’s just a hooker and will never be able to have a decent man and jumping to her death off of the boat. But no, instead that’s just washed over because her rich boyfriend is at her bedside when she wakes up. It’s all pretty tragic and sad. Also that wealthy artist guy is a fucking herb. She could do better.

Climax-2018 This started with a lot of promise and then totally sucked by the end. Some French dancers in a snowstorm accidentally drink LSD spiked punch and shit goes off the rails. There were some really cool scenes like a hallway lit in green with a contortionist doing all sorts of weird movements in the background while some girl loses her shit. But they got too cute. Like everything is shot upside down for way way too long. It’s actually annoying. And look, I’ve done a lot of acid, some parts tracked but others were just so stupid and ridiculous. Speaking of ridiculous, let's talk about French dancing. No. just no. I don’t know, they all just seemed kinda lame and corny. This would have been better if they pushed it much farther than they did. We didn’t even really get any hallucination scenes. Would have liked it to be more horror-y. This was just okay and not really worth watching or reading subtitles for.

Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (5)-2015 This may have been my favorite one yet? They keep getting better? I think by this point they realized that let’s just have Tom Cruise do his stunts and action-y stuff and not talk too much. Then we’ll put a bunch of good ing actors all around him to carry the acting side of things. And I’m pretty good with that. It works. Thanks Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Simon Peg, Jeremy Renner etc etc for completely carrying the acting and comedic side of the movie, you know, making it watchable. But I do have to give it to Tom Cruise, there’s some great action parts and stunts in here too. Pull it all together and it ain’t half bad at all.

Night Tide-1961 A very young Dennis Hopper plays a sailor who falls in love with a girl who believes that she is a mermaid. His girl makes her money as a sideshow attraction and lives above the carousel on the boardwalk. Everything about her is super weird. Not to mention her last two boyfriends turned up dead. Hopper begins having these odd dreams about his girl turning into an octopus and what not. The whole vibe is kind of weird-o fantasy with a tinge of creepiness. The acting is super stiff and the story is a little disted at times but I dug the overall aesthetic and plot and just the original strangeness. Plus the little jazz parts on the beach and club were kinda fun too. The bigger names of the musicians being Paul Horn and Chaino.

Happy Hunting-2017 Another humans hunting humans movie. A town deals with its problem citizens by using them as prey in an annual human-filled turkey shoot. An out of town alcoholic ends up on the wrong side of the hunt and finds himself up against a whole town of idiot good ol’ boys. This had promise but the acting was pretty crappy and so was most of the story. Some fun parts and overall not terrible but certainly not something anyone would need to watch unless you were trying to watch all of the humans hunting humans movies.

I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang-1932 Paul Muni finds himself at the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up on a chain gang for it. The conditions are horrific with men being beaten and worked to death. All of the prisoners seem to be united together without any fighting amongst themselves. Like they all are suffering so hard together, there's no energy left for fighting amongst themselves. Some really powerful scenes that do a great job showing the hopelessness felt by all of the men across all of their races, when typically in jail they would be segregated. Muni does a stand up job through a wide range of emotions. Some ups and downs throughout the movie but overall a perfectly pre-code sort of ending that wraps everything up in a way that it doesn’t? But keeps ya thinking. This was pretty great.

The Last Wave-1977 Peter Weir made this in between Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Plumber. And much like those other two this one also rules. The same sort of I can’t put my finger on it creepy uneasiness that he somehow imbues his movies with. Richard Chamberlain plays a lawyer haunted by weird realistic dreams that seem to come true. They get more and more vivid as he takes on a case defending 5 Aboriginal people in a murder trial. All of this seems to coincide with these super odd weather phenomena. Really enjoyed this. Couldn’t tell if the ending was really happening or another dream which I think was intentional? I guess I would have liked that more wrapped up a bit but still an excellent movie.

Havoc-2025 Gareth Evans directs Tom Hardy in this police/gang war action movie. Kind of feels futuristic at times (or maybe I’m just so out of it it felt futuristic to me 😁). The color scheme and lighting reminded me of Blade Runner a bit so maybe that was it? Either way it worked, definitely looked good. Tom Hardy really feels like a street kid to me. He looks like he’s broken his nose before or actually been in some fights in real life. I like that he’s not so polished, I don’t have to start out pretending he could actually be this character. A pretty damn good modern action movie with a big budget. It does not improve on or best the Raid movies however, contrary to some of the promotional things around this movie-like calm down. There’s not enough fighting for that. That is not a slight though, I did enjoy this pretty easy straight forward action movie.

The Harder They Come-1972 Somehow I hadn’t seen this yet. However, every time the soundtrack comes in, I end up playing it once a day for a month or so. I kinda figured this was going to be one of those music movies that really isn’t very good but is just a showcase basically for the music. Turns out I really sold this film short. It was pretty excellent as a stand alone movie. Probably did help a bit how much I love the soundtrack and hearing those songs while watching though. I appreciated the glimpse into that life and what that looked like. Plus I loved looking at all their styles. It's killer. The acting was way better than I expected as well. Yeah this kinda ruled. Totally deserves all the hype surrounding it. Without giving anything away, the ending has a callback to an earlier scene that is absolutely perfect 3rd wall breaking way to end the movie.

Dead Mail-2024 a weird guy who eats ice cream with his bare hands kidnaps a synthesizer hobbyist. While in captivity the hobbyist manages to get a blood soaked help letter into a mailbox. When this arrives at the local post office their dead mail department is on the case. This wasn’t particularly creepy or scary but I liked it more than I didn’t. Unusual characters and storyline than what I am used to seeing. A little stiff at times but overall not that bad. Certainly not a must watch but not a bad option when undecided and not that interested in focusing too hard. One particularly painful to watch glue scene for anyone that has used hobby glue before.

So Big-1932 thank you for sending me the end of this! I would have missed all of young Bette Davis’ part. A well written story about a girl (Barbara Stanwyck) who grows up outside of high society. When her father dies she accepts a job in a very bucolic area and ends up marrying a farmer. She takes on the life of a farmer's wife and soon has a baby who is “so big”. When her husband dies, she does what she needs to, to keep the farm alive. Thankfully her quick thinking and work hard attitude brings her out on top. When her son wants to abandon beauty and art for a life as a yuppie stock market schmuck, Stanwyck is beside herself. Thankfully her “so big” son meets Bette Davis who shares his mother's love for beauty and disdain for soulless yuppie turds. While we get these two powerhouse actresses on the same screen, I don't believe that they actually interact in this movie. Still I really enjoyed the story, message and acting.

Merantau-2009 pre The Raid you've got Iko Uwais and Gareth Evans teamed up to make a silat action movie. The righteous country boy adept at martial arts finds himself in the rotten city only to right urban injustices. I watched a little video about some of the main points of silat before watching this, which was nice. Some really cool action scenes and a pretty straightforward story. You can tell that they are learning their way through this movie and perfecting things so that by the time we get to the second Raid they are super in their zone. But this was still a quick great action watch. Just less so than where they end up a few years later.

J.D.’s Revenge-1976 okay so I watched this mainly because those are great initials😁. In New Orleans two couples go to a show where one of the men, Isaac gets hypnotized. Naturally that leads to him getting possessed by some old street dude with an axe to grind with the local preacher (played by Lou Gossett sans JR at the time). This is notable for all of the flashback tripping out scenes showing super gory butcher montages that seem borderline arty. That's kind of a stretch but they look like something that would be in a more modern self conscious horror movie not a 70’s blaxploitation flick. There's also a scene where possessed Isaac beats up his girlfriend and to console him, his friend is like man sometimes you've gotta hit
your woman, they like and need it. That was obviously a bit cringey but felt kinda funny like I can't believe they wrote this shit into this movie. The story is a little jumbley but overall I enjoyed this. Maybe it was just the super gay hot guys in short shorts football scene.

The Wrong Man-1956 Hitchcock directs Henry Fonda in this true story of a family man falsely accused of armed robbery and what that does to his family and life. Not your typical Hitchcock story but definitely a Hitchcock film. Expertly laid out with incredible attention to detail. Fonda is always amazing and delivers here. An excellent portrayal of the feelings of helplessness and slow build of dread as reality sets in felt very authentic. Very well done, but kinda stressed me out and made me anxious. Not in an enjoyable way.

Sunset Boulevard-1950 Rewatch with Nick. He liked it (thankfully-It’s so good I would have been annoyed I think if he didn’t). Wilder really makes excellent movies. He is so capable of making something funny and silly all the while dark and depressing. It’s incredible. I didn’t pick up that was Buster Keaton playing cards at her house until this time around. I will read some of my movie books tonight about this. But this is always an enjoyable watch. A damn near perfect film (I’ve been on a good run lately).

It-1927 The movie that brought the term It Girl to the world. Based on a story by Elinor Glyn. Clara Bow plays a cute fun shop girl at a department store where she falls for the boss. Bow uses her wacky “It” charms to woo the man even though she is not in his social standing. Pretty light hearted love story that I surprisingly was super sucked into and ended up enjoying and thinking about for a few days after watching. I really enjoyed this. And Clara Bow definitely has It.

Executive Suite-1954 Barbara Stanwyck and Shelley Winters in a movie together sounds like a match made in heaven for Janis. The cast is STACKED. Apparently so much so that they had to cut corners everywhere else. Like instead of a score they just used sounds from the city in the background. It all works out fine and doesn’t feel cheap. This is the story of what happens inside a large corporation when the head honcho dies and there is an internal power struggle to find the leader. I sort of struggled with the story a bit because I just don’t really care about corporate life. Naturally the acting all across the board is top goddamn notch. But the cast is SO grand that everyone has relatively small roles. Worth watching for the acting, but I just didn’t really dig the movie itself that much.

Drop Dead Gorgeous-1999 Stacked cast in a really weird campy mockumentary of a small town beauty pageant. Nothing particularly amazing but I enjoyed its odd campiness pulled through with great acting and comedic delivery. Yeah, just silly. This was fun.

Lady Snowblood-1973 RULES! A baby girl born from tragedy is raised to be an assassin to avenge her mother and family. Written by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub). BEAUTIFULLY shot. Tons of scenes with snow and cool squirting Japanese style blood and stark lines against the background. Soundtrack was pretty damn excellent and surprising at times. I love a cold bad bitch. Yup this was damn near perfect.

Murder on a Honeymoon-1935 Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper are back solving a murder. This time while Hildegarde is on vacation in California. No school kids in this film but instead we are treated to a cute dog. Pretty much delivered exactly what I was expecting after watching their other film. And I was totally good with that. I appreciated the kindness and comion Withers gave to a woman who was maybe a little loose with her virtues. I didn’t totally expect that of her, but instead of judging, she gives out comionate sound advice. Still the same silly murder mysteries as one would come to expect from them otherwise.

Sudden Fear-1952 Joan Crawford giving terrified insanity face! This was excellent. Jack Palance (giving crazy angular boney face) gets rich playwright Joan to fall in love and marry him. But something doesn’t seem right. Like his obsession with the dangerously steep steps or his wedding ring! Soon a plot unfolds that leaves Joan absolutely shook and fighting for her life. Great shots and angles, an excellent story that isn’t as straightforward as you would expect. Really cool super tense scenes. And a pretty perfect ending. Palance is absolutely diabolical. Yeah excellent, I LOVED this.

The Night Strangler-1973 Fucking Ruled. How have I not seen this already?! I made the mistake of thinking there was only one of these movies and accidentally watched this one without seeing The Night Stalker (I thought that was just the name of the TV show one). No big deal though, I could follow without a problem. Super campy 1970’s modern vampire movie with genuinely funny parts plus some belly dancers and a couple of pretty funky break filled tracks. Shot in the underground part of the city of seattle and looked genuinely creepy. What was one of the most incredible things about this was how they managed to keep the scarieness but still be so comedic. This was so fun, loved it.

The Invisible Ray-1935 Karloff plays a mad scientist working in a super moody castle on some radiation that ends up affecting him mentally. All this starts kicking in right around the time his wife leaves him for some chump. Then Lugosi (a slightly less mad scientist) steals his ideas. Obviously this is a ticking time bomb. So naturally, Boris fakes his own death and starts murdering everyone involved and tying it all together with these weird statues he steals-all while GLOWING. I’m a sucker for mad scientists and these actors and moody castles and revenge. So yeah this was good in my book!

The Prey-2018 Another humans hunting humans movie and also a prison fight movie in one! An undercover cop in Cambodia gets arrested and thrown into a super violent jungle prison. But the warden and inmates are in for a surprise, because this is no average criminal, this is a badass secret agent! And let me tell you, he takes no time flexing his fighting skills. Throw in some prison torture scenes with really intersting music choices like steel drum island music or upbeat rockabilly? I don’t know the soundtrack rules actually. Next thing you know some prisoners get sold to these dudes paying big money to hunt humans in the jungle-no doubt. This is not the best of these genres I’ve seen but I did really enjoy it. Fight scenes were decent, the location was great, and some cool shots. A little cheesy, sure, but I liked it. My only real gripe would be the subtitles were not that great. There were lots of language changes that were a little confusing to follow but all in all, the plot wasn’t that deep so it was fine.

Dishonored Lady-1947 Hedy Lamarr plays a woman at the top of the design department of a big magazine. She likes to spend time with a number of men (read high body count) and everyone hates her for it. Except all of the men who are under her spell. This drives Lamarr to attempt suicide by crashing her car into (very fortunately) a psychiatrist’s house. He soon starts treating her and is basically like “abandon your old slutty life, take on a new identity, and try to be a proper lady”. So she does, only to fall in love with her downstairs neighbor and work partner. But she abstains from sex the way a good girl should. So naturally she falls in love with him. When she gets tangled up in a murder and her past comes to light, the new relationship is put to the test. I liked her better when she was galavanting around town, drinking and belittling the men who would aggressively hit on her. Hedy is stunning as always. But the movie was just okay. Kind of felt like this whole thing was a warning to women not to get around or have a career. I’m good without that lecture-thanks.

Hundra-1983 Like a female Conan story with sex slaves and a feminist agenda. This fucking ruled. If I would have seen this when I was a teenager, it would have been a cult classic amongst my crazy friends and I. No clue how it has such a poor rating. The cinematography is actually pretty good, the acting is decent enough and the costume design is great! Hundra’s feminist tribe gets killed by these brutes in horn helmets. It’s up to her to repopulate her tribe and spread their feminist ideals. After some questing she finds the perfect dude but when she tries to rape him, he can’t get it up because she’s too butch (which makes no damn sense, she straight up looks like a Frazetta painting but whatever) which leads us to a barbarian make over scene! Yes bitch, how could this get any better-throw in a makeover montage for the warrior chick. Thank you. Yes, big fun. I wish there was a part two.

Blonde Ice-1948 A noirish film about an ice cold blond who has no qualms killing anyone that threatens her monetary and social status. Pretty low budget and the acting is eh but still really fun and enjoyable. Largely because of her use em and lose em attitude about the men in her life. Could this have inspired Serial Mom? Lots of similarities in the character’s behavior. Ha!

The Woman in White-1948 A handsome art instructor moves to a mysterious mansion with even more mysterious pupils. Sydney Greenstreet plays a conniving villain (shocker) who seems to control everyone in his . The women in this movie are STUNNING. Just absolutely beautiful. The actual woman in white with her cape in the ghostly fog is a treat. The story gets a bit muddy at times but overall this was pretty good. Could be one of those movies that creep on being a horror movie like Diabolique but maybe are or maybe aren’t. Like a horror movie I could watch with my mom for Halloween. As always Greenstreet is phenomenal.

Mission Impossible:Ghost Protocol (IV)-2011 Well the spy tech is finally starting to seem advanced and ahead of modern times. This was ever so slightly worse than part 3 but better than part 1 & 2. They did dispose of the love story from the last movie instantly in this one. So that's cool. I thought I would hate these more than I do. So far they’ve all been very watchable. Nothing amazing but enjoyable enough big box movies. On to part 5!

Count Yorga, Vampire-1970 A hip 70’s vampire movie with a bunch of silly sex scenes. I think that if you haven’t seen Dracula 1972 AD then you should watch that instead. But if you really dig hip vintage vampires then give this a go. I’ll be watching part 2 this week. Cause you know I dig that shit.

Heretic-2024 Hugh Grant tries to illustrate the glaring issues with religion to two girls who come to his house trying to convert him. But little do they know, he is actually the one trying to do the converting. There’s a whole lotta yappin’ going on. Like way too much. Feels like when I’m at work and someone is talking to me about the differences between the Yes album pressings and I’m just tryin’ to write movie reviews clearly not interested or paying attention but they just keep on going. The nerve-(i’m clearly a jerk, but sometimes it’s just taxing to be talked at. And that’s what this movie feels like). That said, I did enjoy the movie mostly. The acting was good and I appreciated how both sides of the religious arguments were represented rather intelligently. Also wasn’t a concept I’ve seen 8 million times. This was good. But I did have some issues that prevented me from loving it.

Mission Impossible III-2006 This one was even better than part 2. Philip Seymour Hoffman is totally hateable as the villain. The stunts were somehow even more wild (a CRAZY tractor trailer scene). I feel like the franchise is actually starting to get good. However, they wrote in this totally stupid love story that was just awful. I don’t think Cruise can deliver love, like he’s incapable of that emotion or something? I don’t know, it just doesn’t really read coming from him for whatever reason. I enjoyed this and am actually looking forward to the next one. They keep getting better!

The Woman in Red-1935 This was just what I wanted with my 3rd Stanwyck on a Saturday. I love how she is always just flipping off Society types and their codes of conduct. She does it so gracefully but also so fulfillingly.

Illicit-1931 Stanwyck doesn’t want to get married but society forces her to abandon her feelings about matrimony and wed some total dork. He cheats on her (and let me tell you he is slumming) and Stanwyck doesn’t care, she just decides that their marriage is too uptight and they should live separately so as to care for each other more? This tomfoolery continues on throughout the movie with everyone in society being all up in their business and judgey as fuck. The story is so-so and feels like the movie is trying to tell me something about being unconventional and boys will be boys etc. Naturally Barbara is great she’s so sure of herself and full of youth and ideals but this isn’t one of her best simply because the story is just so eh.

Annie Oakley-1935 Our girl Stanwyck plays the title character with kindness and grace. A very Hollywood adaptation of this story. She bests every man around and they all seem to fall in love with her. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Annie Oakley story. I was a good shot, and was always the only girl at the Rod and Gun. Naturally I liked this better than probably most people would. The love story is super heavy handed and sappy. But as always Barbara elevates this movie. I liked it, but not sure if I would recommend it to anyone else. Not worth sitting through the cringey Native characters as comic relief if you aren’t already super invested in the story.

I hit all the marks on the Hooptober and on the Horrortober lists plus I watched all of the movies on Variety's top 100 Horror movie lists that I hadn't seen. I didn't do one of the extra credit movies on Hooptober because I'm kinda sick of zombies.

• The Oblong Box
• Vampira
• Malignant
• 13 Ghosts
• Martyrs
• Panic in Year Zero!
• The Return of the Vampire
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• Train to Busan
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I didn't watch The Crow, Halloween, and Trick r Treat because I've seen them too many times and didn't feel like it. Otherwise I hit everything in both lists.

• Invaders from Mars

  USA 1986 Tobe Hooper, Underground
  21. Sci-Fi
  11. This is a little bit of a reach as this isn't a masters of horror movie but it is directed by one of their directors sooooo thats where i'm at

• The Fury

  USA 1978 DePalma

• The Hunger

  UK/USA, 1983, LGBTQ
  15. 40th anniversary

• A Quiet Place

  USA, 2018, Post Apocalyptic

• Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

  Japan, 1968, Post Apocalyptic

• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

  British, 1927, Hitchcock

• Clown

  USA, 2014

• The Other

  USA, 1972

• The Wasp Woman

  USA, 1959
  17. Morbid MC Svengoolie!

• Phantom of the Paradise

  USA, 1974 DePalma, Devil

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.