Zedwerd_Gorey

just a boy, standing in front of a movie, asking it to entertain him

Favorite films

  • ing Strange
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Batman Returns

All
  • Dementia

    ★★★★

  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    ★★★★½

  • Viy

    ★★★½

  • Chameleon Street

    ★★★★

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Dementia

1955

★★★★ Liked Watched

I didn't know David Lynch directed one of the original Twilight Zone entries!
I love little curio objects like this, thanks Tubi! A feminist noir expressionist freakout with an omnipresent avant garde jazz score featuring Marni Nixon wailing like a theremin. Short and slight and lousy with 50s pop psychology. A literal nightmare on celluloid.

Cléo from 5 to 7

1962

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I wanted to hang with Cléo way longer than 5 to 7, I could live in this film forever, it was slow going at first but really sucked me in by Cléo's session with her writing team. Minus half a star for the frog guy cuz what the fuck.

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Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Liked 1

Round Three and, y'know what, fuck it, Five Stars!

I forgive Sinners its treses. Do I wish Coogler hadn't added callbacks that feel like standard "the audience are morons who need constant handholding" studio notes, sure. Does the Hogwood epilogue still feel tacked on, definitely. Did I notice even MORE randos in the background and periphery of the core six holding down the juke, yeah and it's annoying, but you gotta accept that their characters must have been cut for…

Borderlands

2024

★★★ 1

This is my kind of Big Dumb & Loud
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Am I this disconnected from the average theatergoer taste? Everyone out here acting like this film personally attacked them and it's the worst thing to have happened this year, but they'll kowtow to creatively bankrupt trash like Deadpool & Wolverine.

Idgaf about the games or the lore or fidelity to source material (almost never.) You tell me something fucking crazy like an interesting director is putting…