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The Descent
I’ve seen this one a few times, actually, so I rewatched it because I don’t think I ever saw the Descent 2 and wanted to revisit it. I remember young me, 12 years old, thinking, oh god. Juno is hot. It’s a good movie, led by an all-female cast. I love cave creature movies and…
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The Substance
In the pursuit of youth and beauty, you rob yourself. That’s the most basic message in the Substance. The very least you can get from it. But we can expand on that, can’t we? The disposal of aging women in our society, the need to meet male standards for women’s beauty, the men in position…
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Man, Fuck This House
Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home, a gorgeous Craftsman in the rapidly-growing Southwestern city of Jackson Hill. Sabrina’s a bored and disillusioned home-maker, Hal a reverse mortgage salesman with a penchant for ill-timed sports analogies. Their two children, Damien and Michaela, are bright and precocious. At first glance, the…
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Lady Devil
PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Finally. I finally finished this story. Once, eons ago, I started reading this while it was updating. It was one of those services where you need to unlock chapters with money each time so I (as usual) fell off the horse. Now I have finally read the whole…
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Starbrew Cafe
This is a guilty pleasure. I have not beaten this game because I hate microtransactions and have purposefully made it very hard for me to buy things through games because I am terribly worried that I might slip up. I’ve got a real love/hate relationship with mobile games because I become very very aware of…
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How to Sell a Haunted House
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and…
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The Purge: Anarchy
As I watched it, I was laughing to myself. No wonder it is so popular a series. For people like me, it’s a criticism of the government putting systems in place that fuck over the lower class in order to build a world where those on top stay on top, enjoying the fruits of the…
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Nobody
My parents went nuts trying to get me to watch this ASAP. My dad says that it’s one that he can’t stop watching if it happens to come up on TV. I’ll call it a suburban John Wick, playing itself straight and yet knowing precisely what it is. I’ll just toss out this scene here.…
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Fourth Wing
WE GET IT YOU THINK HE’S HOT AND WANT TO BOINK HIM, I GET IT, I GET IT, I GET IT, PLEASE THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE FOR FIVE SECONDS
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Daddy’s Head
What if your dad was a skittering thing that made you yell at people? And also, your stepmom spent half the movie in a T-shirt and her underwear, and the other half in a house kimono, drunk on the floor? What if they show you a perfectly good dog and decide to kill her?
Trope: Bereaved White Woman
This White Woman is upset and everything is about her being Upset. Her tragedy is everyone’s problem.