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That's some bad hat, Harry.
A re-watch of Predator last night! Epic!
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Wanted to see more of Sandra Huller.

This is very Lanthimos. Ridiculously similar to The Favourite. Not enjoying it much, though.



Alien Romulus is now out on digital, but it was best on IMAX.



I am finally back to my comfort watches.

This is not bad. I’m very interested in stepparent dynamics so every new take is worthwhile.
Yet another film assuming women owe everyone everything and their feelings don’t matter.



That's some bad hat, Harry.
The Predator - Shane Black makes the first "comedy" in the franchise. It doesn't work for me. It feels like a Marvel movie with R-rated violence. It perhaps could have worked as an original story better.




Both very good movies though wildly different.
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Gettin' toward Halloween, have to pull out some favorite movies. Tonight, it's The Thing, the 1982 version, directed by John Carpenter. It's not the classic 1951 black and white version, or the so-so 2011 remake, but Carpenter's, one of his best. It's the peak of wax-melt FX, a good ensemble cast including Kurt Russel, excellent, minimalist, ominous music by Ennio Morricone and a frigid, menacing sense of being alone in the ice with a shape shifting monster on the loose. It's John Carpenter doing what he does best.




Looking forward to this, especially Maria Bakalova. I’m so glad that they picked an actual Eastern European for this. Read her interview, the whole ‘Slavic women are strong’ spiel, and that was hilarious (and true), and she feels like a great fit.

On the whole, I liked it. It could have been far better, obviously, but I like such stuff. Why not.