My Best Friend’s Exorcism

So, I also highlighted this trailer. I'll talk about this movie as well. I really liked this book by Grady Hendrix, and it's one of those books that seems to naturally translate well to a screenplay (though the credits call it a teleplay). It's not a super dense or super long novel. It has a…

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Blonde

So, I highlighted the trailer. Guess I gotta review it, huh? I saw someone dub this film Marilyn Monroe: Fire Walk With Me, and that's quite apt. It doesn't have the intensity of David Lynch's film about a girl trapped in a nightmare on her way towards her inevitable end, but it is a similar…

Prey

This is one of those movies that I want to like more than I actually do. It addresses some of my issues with a movie monster, has some great individual sequences, but I don't think it actually comes together all that well. It's got a couple of ideas that it introduces and never explores with…

Scream (2022)

#2 in my ranking of the Scream franchise. This is probably the best sequel to the original Scream, and that ends up kind of sad. The 2022 entry in the franchise is a perfectly acceptable, if unimaginative, reboot/sequel thing that balances new and legacy characters to varying degrees of success. It also seems to want…

Elvis (2022)

Did you ever wonder what Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story would have been like if Baz Luhrmann had directed it? Well, wonder no more because Luhrmann made Elvis. I imagine there's a very narrow section of the moviegoing public that is going to really love it. It's going to be the small cross section…