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2023-05-03T09:58:44-04:00

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Form, or Stop Underlining the Damn Theme

Last updated on: May 3, 2023 at 9:58 am By Chase Padusniak

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My distaste for director Ari Aster’s movies is, if not well known (because who would care?), at least unhidden. I thought Hereditary (2018) was sub-par but inoffensive. Midsommar (2019) made me apoplectic, most likely because I have poor self-control and because it’s a bad movie. I haven’t seen Beau is Afraid (2023), but both the title and Eileen Jones’ review make it unlikely I’ll spend 3.5 hours of my life on Joaquin Phoenix screaming at his dad’s penis or whatever... Read more

2023-05-01T15:33:24-04:00

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Hate the Player, Love the Game

Last updated on: May 1, 2023 at 3:33 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Dungeon and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) crystallizes just about everything about moviemaking in our time. We’ve got a well-worn piece of intellectual property that’s already got a (failed) cinematic trilogy under its belt. The IP itself once represented all things grim and unsightly (I, for example, recall a woman at a block party telling me that her young adult boyfriend had been driven to suicide by the game’s demonic magic). Now, like nearly all “nerd culture” it’s been commodified... Read more

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2023-04-24T18:08:27-04:00

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Vats and Vats of Bloody Alfredo Sauce

Last updated on: April 24, 2023 at 6:08 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round (2022) is a work of décollage. But of what? Romantic comedies, since we follow Amber (Alison Brie) on work retreat to gorgeous Tuscany, where she hopes to meet Mr. Right (hot, rich, European). People, however, keep disappearing, even as Craig (Ben Sinclair), the group’s Italian-speaking minder assures them everything is bene. The movie’s ever-building tension, abetted by a developing mystery, starts to recall What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) or The Red Queen Kills... Read more

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2023-04-17T18:42:14-04:00

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Now That’s What I Call a Horror Movie!

Last updated on: April 17, 2023 at 6:42 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I caught some flak for trashing Barbarian (2022). I’m not surprised. I hated the pilot of The Last of Us (2023) too. I’m not exactly a Pez dispenser; I seem to have more vinegar these days than honey. Just the day before I wrote that review, I taught a class on reboots, revivals, and adaptations. Our case study was The Twilight Zone (original run, 1959-1964), which has been revived for TV three times (never mind the short story collection, feature... Read more

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2023-04-11T17:55:22-04:00

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Please Stop Trying to Make “Smart” Horror Movies. Please, God. Please

Last updated on: April 11, 2023 at 5:55 pm By Chase Padusniak

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You can rip his pair of striped pants off and slash away his mustache, but I guess the barbarian always remains. Or at least that’s how I feel after watching Zach Cregger’s Barbarian (2022). I had hope. It was well reviewed, seemed pulpy, even promised to bring in contemporary issues without just throwing in the “uh, all the cell phones just don’t work right now” excuse. My hopes were dashed, my paltry desire to see a good horror movie come... Read more

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2023-04-04T10:11:41-04:00

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What They Did in the Shadows

Last updated on: April 4, 2023 at 10:11 am By Chase Padusniak

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In 1959, bit TV actor and anti-Lee Strasberg workshop founder John Cassavetes filmed a 16mm, largely improvised movie about race relations in contemporary New York. That work, Shadows (1959) seems to attract admirers mostly because it ends with a (then-surprising) note about its improvisation—a triumph of independent cinema, the ill-attended foundation for Marty Scorsese and New Hollywood. It’s, the consensus is, an artefact for contextualization, a bauble to be praised by weirdo enthusiasts and snooty cinephiles, a 20th-century Ormulum. It... Read more

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2023-03-29T16:37:19-04:00

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The Myth of True Crime

Last updated on: March 29, 2023 at 4:37 pm By Chase Padusniak

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When I went to summer camp in New Jersey in the late 90s and 2000s, we heard about Cropsey. The legend left only a broad impression—a man, a fire, a daughter, the woods. We learned the story on Initiation Night, when the oldest campers slept over in the woods behind what we so-lovingly called “The Pavilion,” a large wooden bandstand with a roof, surrounded by forest on one side and a large grassy field on the other. Many of us... Read more

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2023-03-27T10:39:27-04:00

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The Trip That Broke 1000 Hearts

Last updated on: March 27, 2023 at 10:39 am By Chase Padusniak

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Before there was Superbad (2007), there was The Daytrippers (1997). Director Greg Mottola’s debut feature feels like a predecessor to Juno (2007), not a movie with a major character who calls himself McLovin. The dialogue is ironic and self-effacing. The characters embody generational conflict, rather than the harmony of twenty-something cops partying with an errant teenager. Whit Stillman probably likes this movie. And so do I (mea culpa)—at least up to a point. The titular trip concerns five relations: Jim... Read more

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A Woman Under the Influence

2023-03-23T10:13:59-04:00

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Amateur Hour at the Indie Convent

Last updated on: March 23, 2023 at 10:13 am By Chase Padusniak

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Imagine if Kevin Smith made Dogma (1999) but in the flat, unaffected style of Clerks (1994). Add in a self-professedly nymphomaniacal nun who has never had sex but who has visions of the Virgin Mary telling her she’ll make a terrible convent community member. While you’re at it, throw in some amnesia, the porn industry, human trafficking, and the perfidious Dutch. Even Parker Posey and Dwight Ewell have bit parts. Fold to combine and you’ve got yourself Hal Hartley’s Amateur... Read more

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2023-03-14T16:09:47-04:00

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Love, Not Like in the Movies

Last updated on: March 14, 2023 at 4:09 pm By Chase Padusniak

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The thesis of John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) is that most people are a bit looney. “Normal” is a comforting lie we tell ourselves—an implicitly understood charade masking dark secrets or, at best, harmless idiosyncrasies. Most conversations between people are but monologues given in impolitely staked-out turns. We see this in the film’s opening, when Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassell) and his bushy blonde mustache sit across from a slack-jawed drunk of a fellow diner named Morgan Morgan (Timothy Carey).... Read more

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