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  • Love Hurts
  • Parthenope
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  • My Dead Friend Zoe

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★★

  • Last Breath

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  • My Dead Friend Zoe

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  • #Manhole

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  • Parthenope

    Parthenope 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025 9

    CELESTE DALLA PORTA! WOW!

    Had to watch this twice, I knew I liked it the first time but wasn't sure how much, second viewing confirmed...I like it a lot!

    An alluring, luscious, intoxicating decades spanning odyssey was not at all what I was expecting from Parthenope.

    A film of aching, exquisite beauty. The cinematography is absolutely stunning. Long but I was never bored. Occasionally strange, briefly laugh out loud funny. Taboo and eyebrow raising. The music, moving. Moments so hauntingly…

  • Love Hurts

    Love Hurts 2025

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Feb 2025 4

    Rounds 2, 3 and 4

    "All you had to do was kill Rose."

    THAT'S RIGHT, FOUR TIMES, I UNAPOLOGETICALLY AND UNIRONICALLY LOVE LOVE HURTS!

    Sure the screen play isn't gonna win any awards but it's simple to follow, easy enough to fill in any blanks for yourself, moves things along from point A to point B. The 80 minute runtime makes it such a quick, easy breezy watch! And Ke Huy Quan is just the bee's knees! (I kinda want…

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine 2025

    ★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025 10

    I mean it's no Love Hurts but what fun! Novocaine's a start to finish absolute freakin' blast!

    I really thought it was gonna be one of those films where all the best bits were in the trailer, but they actually showed some restraint, held back some of the gnarliest, most gory stuff for the actual movie?! They put Jack Quaid's characters inability to feel pain to excellent creative use with some brutal brawls, a fun booby trapped house of horrors…

  • Last Breath

    Last Breath 2025

    ★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025 4

    A pretty incredible true story but I'm not sure there was enough to it to justify a feature length film. There's about 60 good minutes here and a half hour of filler. On the other hand Woody's always great.

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  • Inside

    Inside 2023

    ½ Watched 17 Mar 2023 19

    I'm sure there will be those who love this, who view it as a metaphor, finding greater deeper meaning in it...i'm not one of those people. I got absolutely zero enjoyment out of it. It's way too long, some scenes were extremely disgusting and the few things I found interesting receive no explanation or exploration.

    I love Dafoe but if I want to watch him descend into madness I'll stick with Robert Eggers masterpiece The Lighthouse. I see no world where I ever put myself through watching this again.

  • Stopmotion

    Stopmotion 2023

    ★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024 27

    DIDN'T HATE IT BUT CAN'T SAY IT WORKED FOR ME EITHER.

    Some truly awesome, creepy, disturbing, gross, slimy, squishy looking/sounding stopmotion animation is unfortunately wasted on yet another mediocre attempt at elevated horror where the real horror is trauma and mental illness.

    The climax briefly peaked my interest with some eyebrow raising gore before ending on a random, weird, confusing, disappointing note.

    Honestly I think I'm just becoming bored with this type of horror flick. They're all starting to feel exactly the same to me.

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