The Brutalist: Industrial Exploitation
Brady Corbet's film is an immense work documenting an immense work, taking on the form of its subject as a formalist monolith, a slab of grim reality that renders the weight of its expression.
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My Favorite Film Discoveries of 2024
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The 25 Best Films of 2024
25 films from 2024 that represent the breadth of what cinema can be; genre across the spectrum, from microbudget to blockbuster, representing cinema from across the world.
Nosferatu: Eldritch Lust and Gothic Pestilence
Ooh, majestic! The nightmare swirls and churns unending!
A line once uttered by the crazed Micolash in FromSoft's masterpiece Bloodborne, but one fitting the cosmic gothic prison of Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, an all consuming Eldritch terror that combines a rapidly decaying psychosexual madness with arresting imagery and
Seattle Film Critics Society: 2024 Award Winners
Seattle Film Critics Society (“SFCS”) announced the winners in 21 categories for the 2024 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards on Monday, December 16, 2024.
The Substance was named the Best Picture of 2024. Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, the satirical body-swapping evisceration of self-loathing and beauty standards premiered at
Seattle Film Critics Society: 2024 Awards Nominees
The Seattle Film Critics Society has announced nominations for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. Alongside nine nominations for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, two desert-set blockbusters lead the field with 10 nominations each: Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two and George Miller’
I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Megalopolis // The Substance
Listen, I'm going to keep it real with the audience here, I think I might have peaked with the description for the last episode. I promise this isn't an increasingly elaborate, more elevated version of my normal shtick to avoid having to come up with some