by aditya | Oct 17, 2022 | Archive
I repeat what I just said about Father of the Bride, except the sequel doesn’t even have funny lines in the script. There is what could be a hilarious situation late in the film, when grandpa loses the baby, but, again, the pace and the performances are so utterly...
by aditya | Feb 10, 2022 | Archive
I mentioned in my video review of the remake that this one is about a folklore doctoral student. Of course, we’ve all heard stories spread throughout our area about some evil entity that’s been known to haunt locals. Being scared is one of my favorite things in the...
by aditya | Feb 10, 2022 | Streaming
My video speaks for itself: I’ll add, though, that the original ingeniously made a horror movie out of the branch of humanities known as folklore, while this one ingeniously made a horror movie out of the branch of social sciences known as sociology. Fantastic film...
by aditya | Dec 21, 2021 | Streaming
As has been par for the course lately, I will mostly let my video do the talking: I have some key thoughts to add though. Possible spoilers ahead: -The key questions I mentioned in the video are compelling on an existential level but take on a particular...
by aditya | Dec 21, 2021 | Archive
I said in the video (and have told friends) that Promising Young Woman was basically an art-house version of I Spit On Your Grave. It’s as if writer/director Emerald Fennell thought, “Hmm, instead of showing the rape, let’s have it be in the past so it’s not...
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