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Hello, Everybody!
I’m a longtime lurker, first time poster, who finally decided to join up due to a combination of pandemic-induced isolation and being a newly-minted stay-at-home parent (the latter being because of the concerns of having a child who’s too young for the current Covid vaccinations). A typically over-educated / under-employed millennial, I minored in film studies as an undergrad and recently wrote my Masters thesis on the social significance of recent witch horror films (focussing on Antichrist, The VVitch and The Autopsy of Jane Doe).
I have a pretty broad taste in movies, but particularly gravitate towards horror, arthouse and what my spouse jokingly likes to call “old man movies.” I firmly believe that, globally-speaking, movies are as good now as they ever have been, but I do tend to hate a lot of Code-era Hollywood movies (as I’m generally disinterested in Westerns, dislike most musicals and find that the Hays Code / HUAC preemptively kept anything even remotely interesting out of production). Still, exceptions abound (for example, I love Noir, Universal / Val Lewton horror and pretty much anything starring Judy Holliday); plus the rest of the world handily picked up Hollywood’s slack through the 1960s.
I haven’t been back to a movie theater since the start of the pandemic (I used to go 2-3 times a week), but I have occasionally been able to go to the local drive-in in the interim (it’s really not a comparable experience, sadly). As a result, about 90% of what I pick out to watch these days probably comes from the Criterion Channel (I’m just about to finish up their early John Ford retrospective). We’re also currently in the middle of a family rewatch of the MCU (come to think of it, there’ve been a lot more rewatches than usual lately on account of the baby).
Sorry for the long-windedness (it’s a bit of a weakness of mine). I’m just excited to get started.
I’m a longtime lurker, first time poster, who finally decided to join up due to a combination of pandemic-induced isolation and being a newly-minted stay-at-home parent (the latter being because of the concerns of having a child who’s too young for the current Covid vaccinations). A typically over-educated / under-employed millennial, I minored in film studies as an undergrad and recently wrote my Masters thesis on the social significance of recent witch horror films (focussing on Antichrist, The VVitch and The Autopsy of Jane Doe).
I have a pretty broad taste in movies, but particularly gravitate towards horror, arthouse and what my spouse jokingly likes to call “old man movies.” I firmly believe that, globally-speaking, movies are as good now as they ever have been, but I do tend to hate a lot of Code-era Hollywood movies (as I’m generally disinterested in Westerns, dislike most musicals and find that the Hays Code / HUAC preemptively kept anything even remotely interesting out of production). Still, exceptions abound (for example, I love Noir, Universal / Val Lewton horror and pretty much anything starring Judy Holliday); plus the rest of the world handily picked up Hollywood’s slack through the 1960s.
I haven’t been back to a movie theater since the start of the pandemic (I used to go 2-3 times a week), but I have occasionally been able to go to the local drive-in in the interim (it’s really not a comparable experience, sadly). As a result, about 90% of what I pick out to watch these days probably comes from the Criterion Channel (I’m just about to finish up their early John Ford retrospective). We’re also currently in the middle of a family rewatch of the MCU (come to think of it, there’ve been a lot more rewatches than usual lately on account of the baby).
Sorry for the long-windedness (it’s a bit of a weakness of mine). I’m just excited to get started.
