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Stoker 2013

★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

A Hitchcock movie for the modern age. Park Chan-wook takes a mysterious and tragic tale and just lays down offbeat vibes for the entire duration. Quick cuts lead to odd dissolves and creative transitions. This editing style is quite inventive and uses every square inch of the frame. It all meshes together for a unique take on a coming-of-age story as we see Mia Wasikowska (this has to be her best performance, right?) bloom into a flower in which she…
Test Pilot Donald 1951

★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2025

Chip has finally had enough of this nonsense. But I sure haven't!
Another excellent back-and-forth disagreement between Donald and the 'munks (just Dale this time). The cartoon efficiently shows us how much Donald cares for his fully-functioning model airplane as he uses a pillow for the landing, meticulously oils its joints, and shudders whenever anything gets bent out of shape. So when Dale hops into the cockpit, you know Donald is going to get in a tizzy. Their dynamic is…

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Oppenheimer 2023

★★★★½ Watched 06 Aug 2023

(Christopher Nolan #12) - Christopher Nolan, RANKED
I've waited patiently for weeks to see this so I could experience it in IMAX 70mm and, as my initial experience with this format, I am over the moon that it was a great film to take my maiden voyage with. I've been in the car over six hours today, but it was totally worth it. The size of the screen was mesmerizing (the first time I've seen the 1.43 AR! 😃), the…
Nosferatu 2024

★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

By now, I'm not taken aback by Robert Eggers' singular style. I knew I would be completely submerged in his macabre and bleak atmosphere. This film is absolutely dripping in the stuff, blood oozing, rats scurrying, screams in the night, shadows playing. It's a place I simultaneously don't want to go but admire every detail of.
The Nosferatu story is one I'm well accustomed to by now. But as I sat there waiting for certain beats to hit, I still…

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