A ★★½ review of Royal Flash (1975) I've never heard of the Flashman Papers, which was a satirical series of books and short stories by George Frasier based upon a cowardly fictional British officer in the 1800s who somehow, hilariously...

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The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

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movie poster for Deep Red: A doll holding a cleaver hangs by its neck from a rope. The cleaver cuts into the movie title in red, dropping letters. In the background, a light shines on a leering corpse in a tattered shirt.

#NowWatching Deep Red (1975) dir. by Dario Argento

75-80 might become my favorite era for horror movies.

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Why this Saul Bass work is genius:
1. It recaps a 3 hour movie in 6 minutes
2. The characters are shown as stylized drawings:
Fogg: a running pocket watch
Passepartout: a pennyfarthing bike
Princess Aouda: flowing veils with green eyes
3. The leitmotifs of Victor Young for each character
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Saw The Last Showgirl last night and kept thinking about how it would make a great double feature with The Substance. A few similar themes at play. Also, Pam Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis are really great in it.
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