I’m so excited to see this one. Seems cooked up in a lab for me.
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Notorious (1946)
The single best ending in the Hitchcock filmography? I cannot think of a more impactful one. This movie is FAR better than I remembered it being.
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I don’t hate that they’re doing it, based on the last time they did a Halloween installment (the next Myers one, I think) and how they didn’t hesitate to talk about how ridiculous it was for Myers to be back. At least I’m pretty confident they’ll rip on how fucking stupid the movie is even though they may end up going full ctr and saying “yeah, but the kills are good” or whatever.
I WANT THE THING
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I don’t think it’s possible to make a reasonable podcast episode about The Curse of Michael Meyers. I would just keep thinking my god, who are these buffoons who chose to talk about Halloween 6?
But I’d be fine with H1, then H (2018).
I’m hoping this is the end of them covering Halloween installments unless they want to do part three. Everything past that is necessarily just glorified fan fiction.
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What if they have a theme they’re going with, so it’s the first movie Paul Rudd shot (though it was released after Clueless) or the last movie of Donald Pleasance?
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Tempting but…
Good Boy (2025)
A man moves into a new home that has supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities start to threaten him, his brave dog comes to the rescue.
I’m…not sure how to grade this. I essentially agree with Dave Chen that this is a bold, fresh approach for how to convey a narrative from the subjective POV of a dog.
But I also agree that with the exception of a couple of sequences, the movie is dreadfully boring.
There is also much left to interpretation.
Is this a true paranormal haunting? Or is the dog merely making the most sense it can out of its owners spiral into addiction and death?
The ending, for example, shows the owner being pulled into a dark void by the spectre to his death. But then his sister shows up, and we understand he actually died in the house and now his sister found the body, then freed the dog from the cellar.
Anyway, this is on VOD for $10.
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This review is a pretty good argument for why anyone might want to watch House of Dynamite at least once. Assuming the complaints above are not dealbreakers.
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I’m more bummed than usual by the tepid response to this film by people on this forum. It really affected me like few recent films and most people on here are sort of 
.
I’m use to being a bit of an outlier on films but am honestly shocked how different my reaction was to most people.
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Same.
Sure, I was let down by the ending. But I mean it wasn’t even that I was unhappy with the ending of the story. I was unhappy with the narrative structure the film revealed it had chosen lol. What kind of fucking cinephile nit does that make me?
So I have still been happily recommending it.
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I thought it was good and worth recommending, but it didn’t quite live up to the hype.
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I might have been overly harsh. The problem i have with the movie is that scenario really that scary even if it is realistic? A lot of us get vaporized instantly in some global nuclear war scenario. The realities of life is that many people die in a hospital bed or hospice at home rotting to death. Have seen a lot of that shit the last couple of years and that is light years worse that living in downtown Chicago in the film and dying instantaneously not even knowing it was going to happen. Now I suppose the radiation slow deaths are bad. But I dunno the horror of the scenario rang hollow to me. Like that is going to happen at some point. We all know it and are just hoping its in 500 years and not tomorrow. I think most people in their 40s and up have contemplated some version of that. So to me it was just boring.
Just finished House of Dynamite, and add me to the LKJ/ctr/Trolly pile.
I was really into the first part, and still mostly into it for the second part. As ctr said, the third part would have needed to be the strongest, and it’s just so boring. This structure doesn’t work imo, and the movie deflates for 25-30 minutes before ending in a whimper. Not seeing the same thing Risky and Clovis saw.
It could have been a great regular ol’ thriller, predictable but well executed, but it tried to be something different which imo was a lot worse than the alternative. Still the first half of the movie is great imo.
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With any luck, it will inspire an independent movie with a similar premise executed much better.
Or we can just watch Threads again. Adding these four minutes to House of Dynamite would have fixed my complaints.
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hell no
fuck no
this movie absolutely fucked me up when I saw it at age 11 or whatever in the 80s
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Roofman (2025)
Nearly everything they changed made it less believable. It’s already an incredible story that didn’t need extra crap.
Grade: B
Now that’s a scary-ass movie.