Daniel Cruse

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  • Heat
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Stop Making Sense
  • RoboCop

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  • Ed Wood

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  • The Equalizer

  • Superman

  • La Chimera

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  • Superman

    Superman 1978

    Watched 01 Jan 2025

    I have a unique relationship to Superman as a cultural figure, because I was raised one city over from the small town of Metropolis, Illinois.

    My grandparents lived there for all of my childhood. The town had a population of less than 6,000 at the time, but they took pride in sharing a name with the place Superman called home. There’s a large Superman statue, a yearly convention, a museum, and a Superman contest that I won at the age…

  • Alien

    Alien 1979

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Aug 2024

    Seeing the Xenomorph for the first time, Ash mutters “Kane’s son” to himself. It’s a quiet line I never paid much mind to.

    Kane refers to the crew-member who literally birthed the creature from his chest. But after Prometheus, the line spoke to me in a different way. Biblical allusions are more apparent in Scott’s prequel films. Considering this, whether Scott intended it at the time, it was hard for me to not read the line as a double entendre.…

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  • Ed Wood

    Ed Wood 1994

    ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2025

    Maybe my favorite Burton. If he was ever going to make a prestige play, this was the perfect source material and he absolutely knocked it out of the park.

  • The Equalizer

    The Equalizer 2014

    Rewatched 02 Jan 2025

    So many diabolically funny moments in this movie. The flash iPhone pictures outside of the diner, pushing the little skull ornaments toward the guys on the table before killing them, flicking the lights on and off at the end.

    Sara got me the trilogy on 4K. This one looks beautiful in the format. The colors really pop.

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  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

    ★★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2018

    “Remember, what makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man.” 

    It is crazy to me that we’re in a year where Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War came out and this Sony animated film is the best superhero movie I’ve seen in 2018. It’s difficult to collect my rambling thoughts about how much I loved this film so this review won’t be very analytical. 

    Everything about this movie was so fresh, beautiful, and fun. The story was suprisingly mature for…

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019

    ★★★★★ Watched 25 Jul 2019 2

    “Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It’s called manslaughter.” 

    Tarantino has done it again. Every component from cinematography, lighting, soundtrack, direction, editing, writing, pacing, tone, and especially the acting is totally phenomenal. This was my first time seeing a Tarantino film in theaters and that was such a lovely experience. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt should really just get a joint Oscar for this one, their chemistry is perfect and each of them is so…

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