Writer. Connoisseur of cult classic cinema. Future God-Emperor of Letterboxd.
People joke about the mustache transition in The Godfather but every transition here is god tier.
Watching this after watching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein makes it apparent that the latter was missing a strong creative spark.
After waiting for around a week, I checked out director Sam Raimi’s latest film Send Help at Regal Columbus in Virginia Beach.
First off, I gotta give Raimi massive props for casting Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as the leads. Both actors are incredibly underrated and should’ve been bigger stars. Funny enough, Raimi has now been involved in projects starring two actors in my Spider-Man fancast (O’Brien and Jane Levy).
McAdams’ performance reminded me a lot of Michelle Pffeier’s take…
The whole time I watched Possession (for the first time!), I only had one thing on my mind: What did Andrzej Żuławski do to Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill to get these performances out of them?
Especially with Adjani, going from her performance in Nosferatu the Vampyre to this is a hell of a trip. Her performance as Anna is so real in its rawness that it genuinely feels like acting when she’s Helen.
The frantic energy is so palpable,…
As it’s Valentine’s Day and I already watched Heart Eyes, I finally watched Companion.
Firstly, Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid’s performances are fantastic.
Based on his role in Scream (2022), Quaid is definitely typecast in the role, but he pulls off an even more sinister performance here than in that movie. Thatcher’s performance, with how locked in she is while selling Iris’s existential crisis, gave off “Oscars” vibes.
This is a small detail, but making the Companions the only…
