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1941 (1979)
Rare Spielberg L
How did so many talented people come together to make such a disaster? How did I laugh twice out of the thousands of jokes the 146 minute director's cut threw at me?
Despite all this, try watching any individual clip with the sound off and you might be tricked into thinking that you're watching a bravura cinematic masterpiece. The production design and cinematography are beautiful, and every detail of the set pieces were clearly meticulously planned.
Yet it all amounts to an obnoxious two hour assault on your senses culminating with one of the most annoying end credits sequences ever. Spielberg needed to be humbled after his early successes, and this might be his most important film for that very reason. In the end, I'm all for whatever led to the creation of his future masterpieces, and suffering through this was the price we had to pay.
Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified: Project Blue Book Unknown (2021)
A failed History Channel pitch finds its way to Netflix.
Apparently it's illegal for UFO documentaries to avoid confirmation bias. No effort is put into rationally explaining these conspiracies, forcing you to listen to nutcase UFO "experts" for an hour. They even dragged Merril Cook out of retirement to try and give some credibility!
Genuinely thought Netflix was above this History Channel garbage.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: One World, One People (2021)
Slightly disappointed
Mixed thoughts on the finale. It features some of the most intense and visceral action scenes in the mcu before forcing us to sit through a 5 minute monologue of Falcon's immigration manifesto that was ripped from the Hallmark channel.
The Empty Man (2020)
Shocking that Disney didn't like this
The Empty Man was just as weird and insane as its fans say it is. I was sceptical of the runtime but I somehow found myself sucked into the film through its meticulous camerawork and lead performance by James Badge Dale (really hard to believe this was greenlit without an A-lister). Christopher Young delivers another fantastic and anxiety-inducing score to the horror genre alongside First Reformed's Brian Williams.
While I'm still not too sure if I was 100% into its bizarre ending, this is still the most riveting studio horror film I've seen in years. Bob Iger must have had a heart attack when he realized he would have to release something this wildly original.
(Copy and pasted from my Letterboxd review)
Fear Street: 1994 (2021)
Great characters and gory death scenes
The first act is way too stretched out with the constant 90s cultural references and non stop needle drops. However, after the pointless funeral scene on the football field you eventually begin to like the characters so much that their deaths hit really hard, especially the deli meat kill that had me in shock. All the supporting characters are great which is a rarity for the slasher genre. Just try to get through the first 30 minutes!
Calls (2021)
Scary and emotional
The use of colour and sound in this show is incredible. The voice performances are mostly pretty great and I particularly liked Aaron Taylor Johnson in one of the earlier episodes. Didn't know anything about it going in and finished the entire series in one day.
Hopefully Fede Alvarez does more projects like this and Don't Breath because clearly he thrives with less expectations from producers to make a crowd pleaser.
Bloody Birthday (1981)
Mindless fun for 80s slasher fans
Randomly watched this on shudder and was pretty satisfied. It won't leave much of a mark on anyone but it's fairly entertaining for a slasher without much gore or tension.
There isn't anything resembling character development and the story is essentially an excuse for a group of kids to murder someone every ten minutes, which is kinda why it doesn't standout and is probably more forgettable than the average gore-filled 80s horror film from its day. But when you watch a film called Bloody Birthday you probably should not expect a masterclass in filmmaking.
Some solid performances, capable direction, and a slim runtime makes this one a fun watch.
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Tina
It's a fun movie until the tedious third act, but wow Tina has to be one of the most annoying horror characters ever. Replacing Rachel with her for no reason was an awful decision.
As for Jamie, you have to feel for how much trauma she is put through in this film. Probably one of the most likeable and sympathetic protagonists from the franchise aside from Jamie Lee Curtis yet they butcher her story. Sad!
American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
Incomplete
First off, for a documentary that's nothing but surveillance and body cam footage, it was exceptionally riveting. Unfortunately the filmmaker seemed incredibly uninterested in exploring why this tragedy happened. The simplest google search tells you this family was in financial armageddon, yet they're going on vacations, buying expensive trucks and a nice home, along with a having another kid? That seemed like important info that wasn't explored. Also this may not be for me to say but I refuse to believe that dirty girlfriend of his didn't have something to do with this. I was shocked by how disingenuous her sympathy for the family seemed along with the fact that her complaints about his lying seemed a calculated move to turn the investigators away from her. Oh and apparently she knew all about the family before she met Chris and was making phone calls to him around the time the murders happened! You know how much of this was explored in this film? Absolutely nothing. Instead you're left believing he was a normal man who just randomly killed his family when there is so many other details to this. Obviously because men are killers, right?