"Down in Front!" - December 2o25

Some of these up top are probably from October, and November.  Trying to keep tabs, is all.

Death Becomes Her (1992) - dir. by Robert Zemekis

Rabbit Trap (2o25) -  dir. & written by Bryn Chainey [disappointing as folk, to coin a phrase, but nice effort on the production end, and definite points for introducing me to the music of Lucrecia Dalt, so hardly wasted.  just... not what Sig & i ordered]

Predator: Badlands (2o25) - dir by Dan Trachtenberg [disney made a predator movie and it's a star wars style tie-in to the aliens hulu seri who fucking CARES this is the worst predator movie i've seen and i watched THE predator.  started.  didn't finish.  only made it 38 minutes in]

Weapons (2o25) - dir. & written by Zach Cregger [perfect]

Keeper (2o25) -  dir. & written by Osgood Perkins [you already know my thoughts]

The Monkey (2o25) -  dir. & written by Osgood Perkins [great comedy.  great prop.  "I took liberties like a motherfucker," quoth the director, and King onscreen has never been funnier.  top perkins]

Removal (2o1o) -  dir. Nick Simon / co-written by Osgood Perkins & Nick Simon [quite simply did not like this.  a first movie that shoulda been a student thing.  obvious debt to fight club with none of the charisma]

Cold Comes The Night -  dir. Tze Chun / co-written by Osgood Perkins & Nick Simon [ruled]

The Girl In The Photographs (2o25) - dir. Nick Simon / co-written by Osgood Perkins & Nick Simon [i like some of the intent and certain of the execution but the Nick Simon partnership feels like a weight, creatively, like maybe there's some overwriting; too many scenes, too much indulgence.  also, opens with a william s. burroughs quote.  pretentious, and i say this as a pretentious ass]

Gretal & Hansel (2o2o) - dir. & written by Osgood Perkins [maybe my favourite?  will return...]

Wake Up Dead Man (2o25) - dir. & written by Rian Johnson [started it, twice, never finished it.  didn't even get halfway.  couldn't fuckin' care less]

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2o21) [started it, ate cookies, tuned totally out, then my husband came home and we watched Plur1bus, attentively, instead] 

Gretal & Hansel (2o2o) - dir. & written by Osgood Perkins [watched it with Siegfried.  he dug the art production.  it's one of the most visually stylistic things i've seen in a minute.  it's got some joan of arc, it's got some jodorowsky, it's got some cosmatos.  it leaves me feeling really tuned into a thing that's been made almost wholly by hand.  like i know there's digital in this but i'm not trying to pick the digital out.  mostly it's the practical sets and the unheimlich configuration of the witch's house that make me love this as much as weapons, or eggers' own vvitch, even though it's slower & less bogged down by plot mechanics than either.  it's aspirational, as horror does, and it makes longlegs look like a mistake]

O Fantasma (2ooo) - dir. João Pedro Rodrigues [unexpected.  best DVD i have ever found in a little free library.  full stop.  siegfried quite honestly couldn't have been more rapt.  we never knew where the movie was going next.  not a likeable protagonist but compellingly watchable.  absolutely gorgeous night photography too]