A completely-different feel than HOHH with anthological cast, elegance in score, beautiful English Country Manor setting, rich storytelling & characterization, and traumatization/love-themed atmospherics, but politicization & few scares. 7.6/10.
[category:horror/comedyromance/mystery/periodhistorical,date:2020-09-02,rate:7.6,type:tvshows]
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Category: Period/Historical
The Good Lord Bird (2020)
The best Tarantino project QT-himself never made, TGLB pays capable homage to bonkers, outrageous, hyperviolent, sardonically-comedic signatures of its patriarch w. magnificent E. Hawke lead, moralistic abolitionism crux, epic irreverence. 8.5/10.
[category:western/comedyromance/periodhistorical,date:2020-03-01,rate:8.5,type:tvshows]
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AHS: 1984
Brilliance in 1984 Golden-Age slasher flick concept with spectacular fogset lake-camp location setting, seasoned Roberts/Lourd-led cast, & unapologetic ’80’s-isms in atmosphere – cruelly held back by a killer-problematic, contrived plot. 7.3/10.
[category:horror/periodhistorical/slasher,date:2019-06-02,rate:7.3,type:tvshows]
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Mank (2020)
The behind-the-scenes creation of Citizen Kane, Mank is a dream ciné-experience chronicling the avant-garde writing of a masterpiece with orgasmic meta-analysis, blithe axioms, ’30’s paean, Fincher/Oldman-pedigree, glorious chiaroscuro. 9.2/10.
[category:drama/film-noir/period-historical/political-drama,date:2020-12-02,rate:9.2,type:movies]
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Wonder Woman 1984
The perfect dosage of optimism for 2020, WW84 is a classic Golden-Age DC sequel out a time-capsule – epic ’80’s nostalgia, potency of emotion, diverse genre-mixes, valorous action scenes, allegorical complexity, darkly-characterized villains. 7.5/10.
[category:actionadventure/comic-book-movies-tv/mystery/periodhistorical,date:2020-06-05,rate:7.5,type:movies]
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The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
A harrowing delve into the psychology of addiction & traumatization of orphanages, TQG is a magnificently-acted, nuanced limited series as calculated as its chess-matches – non-perfect & poorly-ended, but a showcase for Anya Taylor-Joy. 8.6/10.
[category:drama/period-historical/character-study,date:2020-05-01,rate:8.6,type:tvshows]
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Da 5 Bloods (2020)
A hyper-stylized, psychedelic, energy-galvanized homage to black culture loaded with passion, war-meditation, & bold social/political commentary juxtaposed with a final Chadwick Boseman act: one of the best Spike Lee joints since DTRT. 8.9/10.
[category:actionadventure/periodhistorical/war/survival,date:2020-03-02,rate:8.9,type:movies]
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First Cow (2020)
Despite a bizarre finale, FC’s a gentle-and-refined directorial tale of 1820’s pastoral manifest destiny, foundation of American capitalism, masculinity, & natural/human friendships by a grassroots Rechardt love-letter to film’s lost genre: westerns. 8/10.
[category:western/periodhistorical,date:2020-12-07,rate:8,type:movies]
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)
A brushstroke of pathos, romance, and ocularly-dazzling baptême de feu amongst the rocky cliffs of 18th-Century France, Céline Sciamma has delivered a powerful, bewitching, revolutionized masterpece: the most breathtaking LGBTQ+ film. 9.5/10.
[category:comedyromance/drama/periodhistorical/lgbtq-minority,date:2019-01-17,rate:9.5,type:movies]
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Joker (2019)
An ultra-dark sociopathological study steeped in deep nihilistic psychology with wildly-violent social commentary, Joker is A Clockwork Orange x Taxi Driver x RFAD with a career performance by Phoenix on the origins of supervillains. 8.7/10.
[category:drama/comic-book-movies-tv/psychological/political-drama/revengethriller,date:2019-09-20,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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