For your consideration: Tanner for best actor or: Andrew Garfield who?
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The New House 2021
While The New House has the typical drawbacks of a first short film like the acting and equipment, it is clear that Sal has great vision and is an excellent writer! The dialogue is very natural and efficient, which is better than you can say for some of the Netflix schlock we get these days.
I also felt genuinely scared watching it in bed at 2am! I really liked when the camera just stared at one of the characters in a dark bedroom. Very good use of tension and making the viewer uncomfortable.
You have natural talent Sal! Keep up the awesome work!
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The Rat Catcher 2023
Wes Anderson is so god mode he made the coolest looking monster movie of the year for like 15 seconds as a little gag
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The Swan 2023
Coming off of Henry Sugar I was not expecting the next story of Wes Week to be so dark! The narration style had to grow on me here but the ending brings it all together in a way that will hit you like a truck. Who is speaking and what is shown becomes more powerful, and at only 17 minutes it is best that much of it is left to your imagination. Wes Anderson sees a star in Rupert Friend and he’s right!
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Strange Way of Life 2023
Appreciate the sentiment re: Almodóvar’s response to Brokeback Mountain but unfortunately a lot of it plays like one of those fake trailers before Tropic Thunder. Also distressed by the lighting on actors’ faces simply not matching with where the windows are
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023
Wes Anderson is cooking with twee gas now, get with it or get out of the way! Not an ounce of stress to be found watching this, just a sugary little morsel for your inner child. I’ve really been putting his style under a microscope, wondering if I’ll begin to agree it’s overdone, but I always just find its reliability increasingly comforting. I think this series of short films is very well suited to him and will end up as…
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Werewolf by Night 2022
Saw this as the surprise screening at Fantastic Fest and color me surprised y’all because I actually dug this as someone who has had a love-hate relationship with Phase 4, but this is a pretty big departure tonally. Michael Giacchino’s love letter to monster movies that actually manages to capture the essence of those flicks despite the confines of it being an MCU project (don’t worry though there’s still plenty of formulaic humor). It’s short, surprisingly gory, and has some…
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The Outside 2022
Death to Alo Glo, long live the new biotch
Easily the best of the four Cabinet of Curiosities episodes I’ve watched so far. Suffers from the same issues they all have in that it’s not touching on anything super novel and it’s probably about 15 minutes too long, but I loved this combo of genuinely disturbing body horror and exaggerated, campy satire. Kate Mincucci really sells it, and Martin Starr is the perfect compliment.