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Rating:★★★☆☆ An overall underwhelming - if not enjoyable enough to play - experience; or, a great deal of potential with little follow-through. Not necessarily worth the wait, but I am surprised that it's as competent as it is having spent such a tenure in development hell. |
Helluva Boss (S2, 2024) | Trailer: Link |
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Rating: ★★★★☆ Whereas slightly strange pacing impacted my enjoyment of several episodes, this season was nonetheless a lovely watch with an unconventional build-up. Sinsmas was a startlingly tender gem. Avoid the fandom; media literacy is a foreign language here. |
Slay the Princess (2023) | Trailer: Link |
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Rating: ★★★★★ A labyrinthine exploration of perpetuity, death, fate, and destiny - and the potential to disrupt that cycle in a wide variation of ways. I encourage you to avoid reading spoilers, endings, or otherwise & go in blind. It's worth it and then some...then play it again. |
Nosferatu (2024) | Trailer: Link |
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Rating: ★★★★★ I cannot quite illustrate the gluttonous eroticism that drips from the majority of this film's runtime. Skarsgård's Orlock prowls, seduces, and feeds with a dark allure; beneath it, I could not help but to realize that I could get past the rotting flesh and ugly moustache. |
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom... (2024) | Trailer: Link |
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Rating:★★★★☆ A stunning audio-visual flourish; keep your eyes on the film throughout its duration without distraction. You do not need to be familiar with the 2007 series to fully engage with its 2024 iteration, but I highly recommend rounding out your viewing experience by doing so. |
Lisa Frankenstein (2024) | Trailer: Link |
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Rating:★★★★☆ A true treat of a film - scratched a kindred itch to Heathers, Dinner in America, etc. Lisa herself, being unapologetically batshit throughout the film's runtime, still charms and the cast plays well against her. The ending, somewhat inexplicably, made me cry. |
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (2019) | Trailer: Link |
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Rating: ★★★★★ I completed my run with an emphasis on Logic & Rhetoric, and I cannot begin to explain how many paths this opened - nor how many it closed. The game's script is razor-sharp and seemingly limitless, and to tell too much is to ruin it all. At minimum, play this game once. |
Challengers (2024) | Trailer: Link |
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Rewatches and Outliers:
→ Cats (2019), 12/23/24
→ Black Christmas (1974), 12/25/24