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DUNE (1984): The SpiceDiver Extended Cut redeems the integrity of David Lynch’s disowned adaptation
“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Geeks
POOR THINGS: Rebirth Through the Deaths of Shame and Ego
"We must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole, Bella, makes us people of substance. Not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours."
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Geeks
THE ZONE OF INTEREST and the Sound of Horror
"'The little snow white bird flew down and sang, 'Be warned, be warned.' Gretel understood what the witch had in mind, and said, 'Please show me first, I don’t know how to do that.' The witch sat on the shovel, and Gretel pushed her into the oven, as deep as she could. Then she closed the iron door of the oven, and secured it with a bar. The witch got cooked alive as a punishment for her horrible deeds.'"
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Critique
Snowblood
The skin of his palm caught and slit open on the jagged knot of barbed wire strung between the fenceposts. Foggy breath billowed sharply from his instinctive gasp at the sight of his injury, but not the feeling, for the biting cold had numbed his hands too much for the pain to hit. A faint dribble of crimson droplets trickled down from the thorny metal onto the snow-smothered earth, this trace of him left to coagulate and swiftly freeze, while he limped ahead through the barren farmland, dragging his hobbled right leg with its distended swollen knee, throbbing like a wailing siren of agony only he could hear, through the seemingly endless onslaught of snow.
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Fiction
THE CURSE (2023) - A Complete Series Review
"I can't always tell what's real or not when we're shooting..." *** Joke review: If I had a nickel for every time Benny Safdie co-starred in something that was set around Los Alamos, partially dealt with the ruination of native lands by wilfully oblivious white people claiming to be building something for the greater good, and was increasingly incredibly nerve-wracking to watch…
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Geeks
Blumhouse's BLACK CHRISTMAS remake is a godforsaken cinematic calamity
There is a passage from Mark Kermode's 2011 book, The Good, The Bad, and the Multiplex, wherein he talked of a phenomenon in media consumption that he referred to as "diminished expectations" - in essence, the act of going into something expecting it to be completely bad, only for your opinion of it to increase in positivity upon the sight of even the barest sliver of something good within it, like a dehydrated person in a vast, barren desert being grateful for a sip of water, even though they deserve so much more, and so much better, than just the bare minimum.
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Horror
BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006) is an unfairly underrated holiday-horror schlockfest. Top Story - December 2023.
With horror films, how often do we not know how good we once had it until it's way too late, and we can only appreciate something's greater value upon reevaluation, and unflattering comparison to the lesser alternatives we have in the present?
By Jack Anderson Keane2 years ago in Horror
THE WHALE fails to deserve Brendan Fraser's amazing performance
"I'm not interested in being saved." *** I wanted to like The Whale. I expected to like The Whale. After all, I’ve loved every film Darren Aronofsky has made up until this point (yes, even Noah), and I was open to being as moved by The Whale as I’ve read many other reviewers describe themselves having been profoundly, not to mention moved as much as I heard members of my audience audibly sniffling and weeping by film’s end, men and women alike, many of them staying in their seats well past the end credits, just so they could talk about the film, or process it in silence.
By Jack Anderson Keane3 years ago in Geeks
HALLOWEEN KILLS: An Irritating, Irrational, Irresponsibly Reactionary Mess
"I always thought Michael Myers was flesh and blood, just like you and me. But a mortal man could not have survived what he's lived through. The more he kills, the more he transcends into something else impossible to defeat. Fear. People are afraid. That is the true curse of Michael."
By Jack Anderson Keane4 years ago in Geeks
