Watching the Terminator 2 Director's cut with commentary and this shot is wild: That's not a mirror!
It's Linda Hamilton's twin sister mirroring her with the real arnold while she works on a fake arnold head in the foreground pic.twitter.com/9e0dHkAoJz
— Misha, Photographer, Eligible Bachelor (@drethelin) September 3, 2022
Ah what the fuck.
I had no idea. I need to check that commentary out. I knew Linda had an identical twin, but I didn’t know that’s how that shot was created.
I watched the Soderbergh film Presence in the theater earlier today.
It was a good film, but it will be polarizing. If you do not like Soderbergh’s quieter, more introspective works, you probably also will not like this one as it is indeed very Soderberghian.
The performances make the film. The plot is thin, but then that is intentional. The viewpoint is the point in a sense. It is not a horror film, really, but an examination of pointless misogynistic evil and how it reverberates through time.
It also had one of the most uncomfortable scenes I’ve experienced in a movie in a long while. I know this will sound bad, but there’s a part that you’re thinking will be “only” sexual assault — then it moves to something else altogether and you wish it’d go back to the other thing.
Callina Liang both grounds and elevates the film with unexpected depth. The rest of the cast is really good as well.
Recommended.
Men, what is your favorite princess movie?
It’s fun, Amy Adams is perfect in the role and it is sweet without ever verging into saccharine. Excellent film that is now mostly forgotten.
What’s the horror movie that made you fall in love with Horror?
Poltergeist.
It still holds up, and has some great acting in it even from actors I normally do not care for. And some of the effects are still amazing — not just for 1982. For today.
The Substance: How Director Coralie Fargeat Stayed True to Her Vision.
I have not yet seen this film, but good lord, someone has been in the gym. Her arms are amazing!
Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘For when humanity lets me down.’
I don’t watch movies this way so I don’t really have a “feelgood” movie as such, but if I had to choose one it’d be Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
It’s just such a fun movie with a perfect tone that blends so much about humanity together incredibly well. The film feels like a pastiche because it is, and works all the better for it.
Inventory: 10 January movies better than they have any right to be.
I’ve seen every film on this list (not surprisingly). That is a good one. I’d add these great January dumping ground releases to the list:
1) Fish Tank
2) M3gan
4) Blackhat
5) Snatch
7) Impostor
8) Teeth
All of those above I listed are very good films.
About the 1994 Body Snatchers, though. That’s such a dread-filled, slimy film. It feels like a nightmare that you just cannot wake from. Both Meg Tilly and Gabrielle Anwar are perfect in it. (And the bathtub scene…blech.)
You know this was an effective film as I’m still angry about what Tamsin did to Mona — and I watched that movie like four or five months ago.
Fuck you, Tamsin! You suck! 
I want to see this film but it is apparently available nowhere, not even the seven seas. Please release.
I love Ex Machina but I think The Witch is the best film made in the last 20 years at least.
Just such a goddamn good film that stays true to itself throughout. And everyone gives stellar performances. It is one of the few flawless films that I’ve seen.
Alicia Vikander should have won all the awards for her acting in Ex Machina.
In a roundly outstanding cast, she’s beyond great. She even changes her voice significantly for the part. 1 Compare and contrast her speech and mannerisms in this interview with her film performance.
That’s a terrible, inane interview, even worse than most celebrity interviews (mainly due to Conan’s dumb questions), but she talks a lot at least.
What a great film Ex Machina is, though.
(Incidentally, Alicia pronounces her name correctly here. I hear two phonemes not present in English, though no difficult ones.)
I love this fight scene; one of the more realistic ever put to film. She’s absolutely getting trounced by a guy twice as big and strong as she is (and who is equally well-trained) until she gets some help and then gets the upper hand.
That’s from Soderbergh’s Haywire — an underrated film that is endlessly entertaining.
I think Steven Spielberg’s best movie is Munich. Just such a tense nasty little beast.
I’m not sure how to put this exactly without sounding dismissive as I think Spielberg is a great director, but Munich is his only film that feels fully adult.
That scene really speaks to how closely delusion and aspiration dwell together in the human heart. The entire film is just as good.
Catherine Chevalier as Rachel in Nightbreed.
She’s fantastic and both the film and her performance in it are nearly unknown. This is a movie worth seeking out if you’ve never seen it. It has a really, really different tone than movies made now, or even ones produced then. Like a lot of Clive Barker-invovled films, it’s grimy in a way that modern films just can’t seem to duplicate.
Best performance from an actor in horror in 2024?
Other people mention her in thread, but my vote is Nell Tiger Free in The First Omen. It is an otherwise mediocre movie that is worth watching because of Nell’s performance. She really just kills it.