Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Queens of the Dead (2025) Look, am I absolutely predisposed toward this for the subject matter and the director and the look? 100% But what's more important is that this movie is smart and acidic and compassionate. And jesus, ...

#309: Queens Of The Dead (2025) - I can’t wait to see what Katy O’Brian’s first Oscar nomination will be for.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Queens of the Dead (2025) Look, am I absolutely predisposed toward this for the subject matter and the director and the look? 100% But what's more important is that this movie is smart and acidic and compassionate. And jesus, ...

#309: Queens Of The Dead (2025) - I can’t wait to see what Katy O’Brian’s first Oscar nomination will be for.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★ review of Bloodspawn (2024) Sometimes you want a good-hearted insane movie where a bunch of Americans fight back against a killer snake creature with the help of the remnants of an invading army and all the effects are charmingl...

#308: Bloodspawn (2024) - It’s a good bit of cheesy fun!

★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★ review of Bloodspawn (2024) Sometimes you want a good-hearted insane movie where a bunch of Americans fight back against a killer snake creature with the help of the remnants of an invading army and all the effects are charmingl...

#308: Bloodspawn (2024) - It’s a good bit of cheesy fun!

★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Fang (2022) Is it a perfect movie? Maybe not. BUT. I don't care. It's compassionate about work and dealing with an aging parent and just being someone struggling with a job in Chicago. And god, Lynn Lowry as a wo...

#307: Fang (2022) - A DAMN good relationship movie hobbled by a need to be a horror movie.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Fang (2022) Is it a perfect movie? Maybe not. BUT. I don't care. It's compassionate about work and dealing with an aging parent and just being someone struggling with a job in Chicago. And god, Lynn Lowry as a wo...

#307: Fang (2022) - A DAMN good relationship movie hobbled by a need to be a horror movie.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of The Shrouds (2024) I think this one might be a litmus test for what your flavor of Cronenberg is...or perhaps more, how you like Cronenberg to approach his favorite subjects of humanity and technology and how they can i...

#306: The Shrouds (2025) - Man, David, you're 82 and still surprising me.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of The Shrouds (2024) I think this one might be a litmus test for what your flavor of Cronenberg is...or perhaps more, how you like Cronenberg to approach his favorite subjects of humanity and technology and how they can i...

#306: The Shrouds (2025) - Man, David, you're 82 and still surprising me.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★ review of An Evil of the Slums (1914) Ah, the joys of the preachy short. Don't smoke in pool halls, kids! And especially don't hold guns for people!

#305: An Evil Of The Slums (1914) - Don’t hold guns for people!

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★ review of An Evil of the Slums (1914) Ah, the joys of the preachy short. Don't smoke in pool halls, kids! And especially don't hold guns for people!

#305: An Evil Of The Slums (1914) - Don’t hold guns for people!

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Occupant of the Room (2025) Ohhhh yeah, that's the stuff. Scary ghost stories for the holidays, a great use of atmosphere and music and holy hell it's always nice to see Don McKellar. And kudos to the set decoration folks for ta...

#304: The Occupant Of The Room (2025) - Ah, scary ghost stories for Christmas. Good and creepy stuff.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Occupant of the Room (2025) Ohhhh yeah, that's the stuff. Scary ghost stories for the holidays, a great use of atmosphere and music and holy hell it's always nice to see Don McKellar. And kudos to the set decoration folks for ta...

#304: The Occupant Of The Room (2025) - Ah, scary ghost stories for Christmas. Good and creepy stuff.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of A Bear Remembers (2025) A beautiful little movie about the pain of losing memories, whether they be by age or by neglect. Combine that with one of the best eerie character designs I've ever seen, a bear with a mask dancing i...

#303: A Bear Remembers (2025) - The best movie you’ll see this year that has a bear dancing in Wales while banging pots together. Really lovely and sad.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of A Bear Remembers (2025) A beautiful little movie about the pain of losing memories, whether they be by age or by neglect. Combine that with one of the best eerie character designs I've ever seen, a bear with a mask dancing i...

#303: A Bear Remembers (2025) - The best movie you’ll see this year that has a bear dancing in Wales while banging pots together. Really lovely and sad.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of We Were the Scenery (2025) Just a really damn interesting piece about a couple who escaped the war in Vietnam, ended up in the Philippines and, well, became extras in Apocalypse now. Of course it's emotional as they look back i...

#303: We Were The Scenery (2025) - Look, if your parents were extras in Apocalypse Now while they were refugees from the Vietnam War, you’d make a film about it too.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of We Were the Scenery (2025) Just a really damn interesting piece about a couple who escaped the war in Vietnam, ended up in the Philippines and, well, became extras in Apocalypse now. Of course it's emotional as they look back i...

#303: We Were The Scenery (2025) - Look, if your parents were extras in Apocalypse Now while they were refugees from the Vietnam War, you’d make a film about it too.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★ review of The Old Guard 2 (2025) The first movie was a lot of good fun. This...this is dreary and wastes a lot of good actors. I can't defend this at all. "Oooooh you're fast healers, let's show that off in the most grisly ways in th...

#302: Old Guard 2 (2025) - Contractual Obligations: The Movie

★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★ review of The Old Guard 2 (2025) The first movie was a lot of good fun. This...this is dreary and wastes a lot of good actors. I can't defend this at all. "Oooooh you're fast healers, let's show that off in the most grisly ways in th...

#302: Old Guard 2 (2025) - Contractual Obligations: The Movie

★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Colors Within (2024) It's just such a lovely and gentle movie, this tale of two high-school students and their budding friendship that may be something more but which the movie doesn't feel it needs to spend time on namin...

#301: The Colors Within (2025) - I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anime that involves synesthesia and that seems odd. Great use of it here.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Colors Within (2024) It's just such a lovely and gentle movie, this tale of two high-school students and their budding friendship that may be something more but which the movie doesn't feel it needs to spend time on namin...

#301: The Colors Within (2025) - I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anime that involves synesthesia and that seems odd. Great use of it here.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★ review of The Emu War (2023) OK, so it's not terribly bad. But it's mostly worth watching a bit as an instruction as to why Hundreds Of Beavers works perfectly while this, not so much in terms of just goofiness with a point. It's...

#300: The Emu War (2023) - It’s no Hundreds of Beavers.

★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★ review of The Emu War (2023) OK, so it's not terribly bad. But it's mostly worth watching a bit as an instruction as to why Hundreds Of Beavers works perfectly while this, not so much in terms of just goofiness with a point. It's...

#300: The Emu War (2023) - It’s no Hundreds of Beavers.

★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★★★½ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

#299: Wake Up Dead Man (2025) - A compassionate movie about faith and murder that has what might the scene of the year.

★★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★★★½ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

#299: Wake Up Dead Man (2025) - A compassionate movie about faith and murder that has what might the scene of the year.

★★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Dark Water (2002) I'd love know what's up with Hideo and water and how it looms in his movies. Between this and The Ring, there's a lot of trauma involving parenting and childhood and potential drowning. Which is expre...

#298: Dark Water (2002) - It's weird; this is kind of...cozy horror.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Dark Water (2002) I'd love know what's up with Hideo and water and how it looms in his movies. Between this and The Ring, there's a lot of trauma involving parenting and childhood and potential drowning. Which is expre...

#298: Dark Water (2002) - It's weird; this is kind of...cozy horror.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★ review of The Flash (2023) This could absolutely be a boring 1 or 1.5 but...then Sasha Calle comes in. My god she's within 30 seconds one of the great Superman and this movie pisses me off at how it wastes her performance as a ...

#297: The Flash (2023) - It sucks except for Sasha Calle.

★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★ review of The Flash (2023) This could absolutely be a boring 1 or 1.5 but...then Sasha Calle comes in. My god she's within 30 seconds one of the great Superman and this movie pisses me off at how it wastes her performance as a ...

#297: The Flash (2023) - It sucks except for Sasha Calle.

★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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3 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) OK, maybe it's my own personal tastes in movies about questioning your own reality and also movies that use a very particular visual style...but damn, this is one of the best of the year. Go in blind ...

#296: Reflet dans un diamant mort (Reflection in a Dead Diamond, 2025) - A trippy delight, the dark mirror of the OSS 117 parodies that has a lot to say about the Eurospy genre.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

3 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) OK, maybe it's my own personal tastes in movies about questioning your own reality and also movies that use a very particular visual style...but damn, this is one of the best of the year. Go in blind ...

#296: Reflet dans un diamant mort (Reflection in a Dead Diamond, 2025) - A trippy delight, the dark mirror of the OSS 117 parodies that has a lot to say about the Eurospy genre.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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