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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 🎃

DISCLAIMER: This review will not discuss how THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a cinematic classic with deep critical analysis. If you want that, you can head over to Rotten Tomatoes. Instead, I’m taking a trip down memory lane this Halloween with the hundreds of times I’ve seen this movie. In 1993, Touchstone’s animated classic THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS was released, and it touched my heart. The darkness, serious themes, and characters were that of an adult film, yet the songs…

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AGATHA ALL ALONG S1 Review 🤩

This will be an odd comparison, but AGATHA ALL ALONG is the closest Marvel Studios has gotten to a Mike Flanagan series. If you think about it, especially after viewing the final two episodes, there’s a lot here about the effects of grief on an individual and how that (coupled with greed and power) can corrupt them. Each member of the coven confronts fears and traumas episodically and makes peace with the idea of death. And given that, I have…

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HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON 🤩

The premise of HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON is inherently silly – a 68-year-old “teenage” vampire is kicked out of her parent’s home because of unwillingness to prey on humans. The film plays out a bit like a dramatic version of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS or a comedic version of TWILIGHT. HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) takes place in French Canada and follows parallel stories of reluctant vampire Sasha (Sara Montpetit)…

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS S6E4 RAILROAD 🤩

RAILROAD “kills two cats with one arrow” as it takes the ensemble cast and splits them into two hilarious stories his week. The first involves Nandor and Guillermo. Their power play is flipped on its head as we see their dynamic change via their workplace comedy roles. Elsewhere, Colin and Lazlo’s dynamic continues to be a weekly highlight. They create a railroad scheme with some of the best one-liners in E4. RAILROAD graduates “Third Eye Blind” style thanks to a…

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EMILIA PEREZ 🤩

EMILIA PEREZ is a story of love and an F.U. to masculinity. It’s beautifully complicated in all the right ways only director Jacques Audiard could make. It has been twenty-four hours since I saw it, and I still can’t shake its haunting music, themes, dance numbers, and, most importantly, the lead performances. Karla Sofía Gascón will surely be nominated, Zoe Saldana delivers the best performance of her career, and Selena Gomez reminds us that she can sing and dance. With that…

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