jude's movie log
i watch a lot of movies. you'll find brief reactions to them here. my top movies of the year are here.
2024
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the real horror: being trapped in an escape room with a Reddit atheist.
-- 11/17/24 |
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you know what, i do always love an angry ghost who's right to be mad.
-- 11/9/24 |
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you simply have to respect a premise like "what if they had to catch the Zodiac Killer at a Taylor Swift concert?"
-- 11/9/24 |
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this is really more of a creature movie than a possession movie.
-- 11/9/24 |
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it's better than the other Russell Crowe vehicle about exorcisms.
-- 11/9/24 |
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"you sold me queer giraffes."
-- 11/7/24 |
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John Paul's Drag Race.
-- 11/4/24 |
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a good movie for crying and wanting to fight the British the entire time.
-- 11/2/24 |
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this has a... mid-career Stephen King coming of age feeling to it, which i thoroughly enjoyed.
-- 10/31/24 |
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every time i thought "nothing more upsetting than this could possibly happen," it did.
-- 10/31/24 |
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Agnes laughing after she gets absolution is honestly one of the most haunting things i've ever seen on film.
-- 10/31/24 |
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this movie also fucking hates Massachussetts, but in a very different way.
-- 10/31/24 |
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this movie fucking hates Massachussetts.
-- 10/26/24 |
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i like that the cop hunting them was as fucked up as the Firefly family.
-- 10/23/24 |
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carnivals are kind of inherently creepy, huh?
-- 10/22/24 |
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unfortunately, i am the type of white person who would go to the serial killer museum attached to the combination gas station/chicken restaurant where the proprietor dresses as a clown every day.
-- 10/22/24 |
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wasn't really impressed with this one.
-- 10/19/24 |
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one of the darkest movies i've ever watched. i really liked it.
-- 10/19/24 |
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Siegel's segment and Cheel's framing narrative were my favorite parts.
-- 10/14/24 |
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incredibly creepy slow burn.
-- 10/14/24 |
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every good monster movie starts with a child who desperately needs to be more supervised than they are.
-- 10/14/24 |
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she was so right, honestly.
-- 10/12/24 |
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[squelching]
-- 10/12/24 |
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men in horror movies love to move in their much younger girlfriends less than a year after their wife's mysterious deaths. they simply won't stop doing it.
-- 10/2/24 |
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fuck your deepfakes.
-- 8/18/24 |
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i miss my local non-blockbuster. :(
-- 7/24/24 |
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Osgood Perkins, they could never make me hate your crochety ass.
-- 7/11/24 |
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Kevin Bacon as an Evil Benoit Blanc made this worth the theater trip for me.
-- 7/10/24 |
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one of the coolest ghost stories i've seen in a long time.
-- 7/2/24 |
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Milton can have a little a arson, as a treat.
-- 6/2/24 |
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sometimes a family can be an overworked maternity nurse, a hospital pathologist who wants to cure death, a reanimated little girl, and a piggie named Muriel.
-- 5/4/24 |
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i am going to be thinking about that creepy-ass pamphlet forever, probably.
-- 5/4/24 |
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a cautionary tale about the dangers of people pleasing.
-- 4/13/24 |
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imagine, if you will, that John Wick had a story that was good. this is that film, and also so much more.
-- 4/5/24 |
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Nathan Stewart-Jarrett should win an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Tony, a Grammy, and a JD Power award for his performance in this film, holy fuck!
-- 4/5/24 |
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Kong picks up a child and uses them as a melee weapon. uncle behavior.
-- 3/31/24 |
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lesbians will say "I know a spot" and then take you to their dad's body disposal site.
-- 3/15/24 |
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love a movie that smells absolutely gnarly.
-- 3/7/24 |
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a really cool medieval Rashomon.
-- 3/2/24 |
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saw this with my brother and one of my best friends. bestie and i have not read Dune, seen Dune 1/David Lynch's Dune. had a great time.
-- 3/1/24 |
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the twist in this one made me audibly gasp, and my brother laughed at me.
-- 2/10/24 |
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i would like to physically fight Lawrence Pazder, due to him being the Worst.
-- 1/29/24 |
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spooky swimmin' in the haunted pool...
-- 1/9/24 |
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my brother and i's primary hangout activity is watching the saddest movies ever.
-- 1/6/24 |
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fantastic performances by the leads, but it ultimately feels hollow. maybe that's the point.
-- 1/4/24 |
2023
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history is often a profoundly nasty and ugly place, and i think Scorsese's work is stronger because it acknowledges this.
-- 12/9/23 |
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i love to go to the movie theater to see the big lizard and then cry my face off.
-- 12/3/23 |
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i think that every biopic about a " Great Man " should take great pains to exhibit that he was actually a little freak, like the rest of us.
-- 11/25/23 |
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marriage is starting to seem like kind of a bad deal, guys.
-- 11/4/23 |
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genuinely had a hard time falling asleep after watching this one.
-- 10/28/23 |
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Grandpa has done it again-- made a fuckin' MASTERPIECE.
-- 10/21/23 |
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more haunted places that aren't houses, please! the interiors of the hotel in this one are so otherworldly and creepy, i'm obsessed with it.
-- 9/16/23 |
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the tension did not leave my body for this entire film. fuck.
-- 9/9/23 |
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a heartbreaking and beautifully made film.
-- 9/9/23 |
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yeehaw, a local story.
-- 8/24/23 |
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absolutely loved this movie; it was not well served by its trailer.
-- 8/23/23 |
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the movie to watch if you want to have no thoughts other than "shark big" for 116 minutes.
-- 8/6/23 |
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the real monsters were the family Youtubers all along.
-- 7/6/23 |
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this movie innovates by introducing Chekhov's Woodchipper.
-- 4/21/23 |
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worst vibes imaginable, 10/10.
-- 3/4/23 |
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the film that boldly asks... "what if theater kids were evil, instead of just annoying?"
-- 2/22/23 |
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stop making Nicholas Hoult a heartthrob and let him be a weird little bastard! it's what he's best at!
-- 1/15/23 |
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this movie felt like wandering into someone else's nightmare and being unable to find the way out, and it was everything i wanted.
-- 1/13/23 |
2022
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in what other film will you see Benoit Blanc lose a game of Among Us to Angela Lansbury? truly, a delight and a masterpiece. i also personally enjoyed the very explicit dismissal of a rich "genius" as a vain and vapid dipshit in a pleather vest. plays very well at present.
-- 11/25/22 |
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Jamie Clayton is in this movie, and that is unfortunately the most positive thing i can say about it.
-- 10/31/22 |
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it's... fine? i liked the soundtrack a lot, and it creeped me out, but ultimately, i wanted a bit more from the movie than it was able to give.
-- 10/28/22 |
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shockingly, this... was kind of good? i expected to just watch an annoying man get eaten by ghosts, but it was actually smart and funny.
-- 10/25/22 |
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if this had come out when i was nineteen, i would have been obnoxiously obsessed with it. seeing it as a 29 year old, i mostly was surprised to find out that my neighborhood is apparently... hip and trendy? also, i know about Damn the Witch Siren because of this movie, so that's enough of a win for me.
-- 9/8/22 |
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i thought this was a really interesting look in how symbols can change and evolve over time, whether we want them to or not. also, there's a sequence where Alex Jones is once again exposed as a huge asshole in deposition, which is one of my favorite things to see on film.
-- 8/26/22 |
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the Satanic panic is just a nonstop chain of misery, huh?
-- 8/23/22 |
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cosmic horror in a rest stop, starring the disembodied voice of JK Simmons. if that can't sell you on a movie, i truly don't know what to tell you.
-- 8/20/22 |
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solid addition to the "do not go to a second location with rich people" subgenre.
-- 8/19/22 |
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i'm not normally a big comedy person, but i really liked this movie. it also gave me a lot of feelings as a former Christian, current ??? about what faith could do in this world if so many people in power weren't obsessed with using it as a cudgel. ah well. also, the weird fundamentalist versions of pop music (if you know, you know) want what the songs in this movie have.
-- 8/9/22 |
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i have been spinning the words "bad miracle" around in my head for six days and counting. also, it is my personal mission to cyberbully everyone who said "this is gonna be Peele's Signs" for being boring, annoying, and apparently unwilling to engage with any work without a comforting patina of some piece of media they have already digested. like putting a pill in a piece of cheese for a dog.
-- 8/4/22 |
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don't know what i can possibly say about this movie that a million smarter people haven't already said better. it's gorgeous, brutal, and visually and narratively rich. i've watched it twice and i'm still thinking about it.
-- 8/3/22 |
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nature is beautiful, but 90% of it seems like it's none of my business.
-- 7/3/22 |
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Finney Blake is a Final Girl. also, more movies should have surprise James Ransone in them. saw his name in the opening credits and spent the whole movie waiting for him like a jump scare.
-- 7/1/22 |
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a masterpiece, no notes.
-- 6/30/22 |
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i will watch every single documentary that Shudder puts out about different horror subgenres, and that's just something that i know about myself. the primary result of this one was me throwing a minor fit about the difficulty of finding Ghostwatch to watch through conventional means. i will still probably watch the next one, even if it's about like, 2000s Saw/Hostel clones.
-- 6/3/22 |
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an ouroboros of Rory Kinnears.
-- 5/20/22 |
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delightful creature effects and a really great story. there's a repeated motif of doubling/mirrors that i found super interesting.
-- 5/1/22 |
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X (2022) dir. Ti West |
this movie manages to be both incredibly horny and very unsexy at the same time. this is not a criticism.
-- 4/24/22 |
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the more i think about this one, the more i like it? Schoenbrun captures this profound sense of isolation in the way that Casey's online and offline worlds are structured, and as you watch it, you feel yourself falling down that rabbit hole with her. also, i hope to see Anna Cobb in a million more things, because she was excellent.
-- 4/24/22 |
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i don't know how to put into words how much i loved this? it was beautiful and profound and funny and just felt... true. it made me want to turn into one of those weirdos handing out xeroxed tracts on street corners, but my tracts are about why you should see this movie, not like... biblical literalism.
-- 4/14/22 |
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