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James Cameron stages his own Force Awakens-esque return to the big screen with an epic crowdpleaser comprised wholly of his singular interests. In moments big and small, The Way of Water is effectively Avatar again, but also a weirder, prettier, more complex, more personal Avatar
Apropos of nothing, some non-Peele/non-Carpenter horror directors with 3+ great films in a row
Michele Soavi, Bustillo & Maury, Tobe Hooper, Greg McLean, Dario Argento, Rubén Galindo Jr, Rodrigo Aragão, Stuart Gordon…
Back to Spielberg watch after June’s Jurassic detour. Watching Hook for the first time at 30 was lightly entertaining as a vibrant family adventure; easy to see why it would’ve captured imagination/nostalgia. Williams, Roberts, Hoffman, Hopkins playing off eachother is wonderful
Save for the literal final minute suddenly raising more questions and seeming to undercut a perfectly good ending, I was very impressed by WEBCAST (Paul McGhie, 2018). Well-plotted found-footage mystery meets unnerving modern Brit folk horror, that hooked me from start to finish
Incantation (Ke Mengrong, 2022): Folk horror-ish eldritch-curse found footage from Taiwan that will draw as many comparisons to The Medium as to the works of Kōji Shiraishi. The Noroi-ness is strong, as an unrelenting curse damns anyone who tries to understand it or escape it
Oh yeah, Godzilla vs Kong is still immensely entertaining. Skull Island remains my Monsterverse fave, but in terms of unadulterated giant monster action, it’s the best this side of Pacific Rim. Literally imbuing Kong with ‘80s action homages is tremendous genre synergy, I love it
Is Chronicles of Riddick part of this category? Because we could use more movies like Chronicles of Riddick. One of the jewels of an era where a studio would put $100 million+ on Pulp-Sci-Fi-Space-Conan https://t.co/QjZQFhx9mu
The Animatrix has been a blindspot of mine for almost 20 years, so I’m glad to have finally seen this cross-medium experiment. Do Star Wars Visions, Arcane, etc exist without the Wachowskis’ trailblazing?
Program, Second Renaissance, Beyond, and Detective Story were my favorites
C. M. Koseman and @simonroyart‘s evolved-avian reimagining of “Dinosauroids” is one of the most evocative and ingenious speculative futures I’ve seen in a long while
A lot more art, plus fascinating zoological details, on their blog: https://t.co/BSQxHlVfEs