Simone Cromer

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I love film and it's my full-time Part-time hobby. I review films and cover the awards season at my leisure.

Favorite films

  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Sinners
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Joker

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  • This Tempting Madness

    ★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★★

  • Marty Supreme

    ★★★★★

  • April X

    ★★★½

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This Tempting Madness
★★★ Watched

Based on a true story, Mia (Simone Ashley) is a woman who suffered a horrific accident that caused significant body damage and her short-term memory loss. Haunted by images and memories that don't make sense, Mia experiences dissociation in her mind, bringing out an enraged and domineering personality towards everyone who loves her. But the twist to the plot is that Mia is not the innocent, loving, and doting wife that everyone thought she should be.

Seen at SLO Int'l Film Festival.

A Complete Unknown
★★★★★ Watched

When it comes to bio-pics about successful singers/songwriters, they tend to encapsulate beyond a decade of that individual's life, thereby creating a watered-down summary of their life which can affect the quality and execution of the plot. Director James Mangold is a known Bob Dylan fan and he knows that in the six-decade career of this Nobel Prize-winning songwriter, it was best to focus on the pivotal first 4 years of Bob's career based on Elijah Wald's 'Dylan Goes Electric'…

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Challengers
★★★½ Watched

Challengers is a tennis match episode of The Young and the Restless. A love match between three young tennis players, led by Tashi (Zendaya), a promising young tennis star who is lusted after by two best friends, sweet Art (Mike Faist), and arrogant Patrick (Josh O'Connor). Over the course of 13 years, director Luca Guadagnino, shifts back and forth between the years, like a tennis match, to chronicling key moments in how the trio first met, infidelities, career-ending injuries, and…

Nosferatu
★★ Watched

I wanted to love Nosferatu, but it was nothing more than a gothic perfume commercial with a confused damsel with advanced yoga skills being obsessed over by an ugly old vampire man who is her doomed soul mate. Director Robert Eggers tried so hard to be shocking with Nosferatu, but if the audience isn't scared of a lame-looking ancient vampire, whose appearance pales in comparison to lower-budget vampire flicks, you know that this is going to be more than your…