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Tarantino had been honing The Movie Criticfor months. Set in 1977 California, it initially drew inspiration from a cynical movie critic that the filmmaker grew up reading. But sources say it morphed along the way into a film that would feature Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, the stuntman he portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is unclear if this film was going to be a prequel or a 1970s-set sequel to Hollywood. But in recent weeks, Tarantino had a change of heart again and moved away from the film entirely. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/quentin-tarantino-no-longer-making-the-movie-critic-1235876453/

Supposedly Brad Pitt was going to reprise his role as Cliff Booth from OUATIH, not play the movie critic himself.

Apparently I have seen her in a few other things then. I watched both those shows.

Civil War was really good. The two biggest things that stood out to me were the sound design (it’s intense!), and Cailee Spaeny. I think the only thing I’ve ever seen her in before this was Bad Times at the El Royale.

Rewatching the old HBO series Tales from the Crypt for the first time since I was a kid. It’s crazy how many fairly big stars they had on this.

Watched Red Eye (2005) for the first time tonight. Not sure how I never saw this before, but it’s a pretty fun thriller. Rachel McAdams, Cillan Murphy, and a much younger looking Brian Cox. I would have never guessed it was directed by Wes Craven.

Speak No Evil looks like a straight up shot for shot remake. And this one feels particularly unnecessary considering they spoke English most of the original. Not to mention it literally just came out two years ago. The director of Eden Lake should certainly be able to do something this bleak very well, but still. I don’t get this one at all.

Finally a MaXXXine trailer!

What a night for Elly De La Cruz. Per OptaSTATS: HR from both sides of the plate over-the-fence HR & inside-the-park HR 4+ runs scored stolen base He's the first player in MLB history to do all of that in the same game.

I had a big smile on my face for much of the Curb Your Enthusiasm finale. I’m going to miss the hell out of this show.

Been watching some of the indie movies on Netflix this weekend, and so far my favorite has definitely been: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. It’s kind of a dark comedy/crime thriller directed by Macon Blair (Blue Ruin, Green Room), with Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood as the leads. Wood’s character in particular had me cracking up. It was also cool to see Robert Longstreet pop up in this. I actually just recently met him at a horror convention, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in anything outside of the stuff he’s done with Mike Flanagan.

No wonder Ye Wenjie called them back.

I thought Cunningham and Wong were both good.

If we’re going individual scenes Fire in the Sky has one that’s way up there.

Probably either Come and See or Threads.

Bold statement that Unforgiven quote.

You’ll Never Find Me is pretty great. Australian horror rarely misses for me.

And The Departed is far from Scorsese’s best, but that’s not really how these things work. Anyway, I loved Poor Things (and Emma), but I’m bummed for Lily Gladstone. Such an understated performance, with only about an hour of screen time was always going to be tough for her though.

Great scene. Kind of gave me Boromir vibes.

Did a rewatch of Midnight Mass. Loved it even more the second time through. Hamish Linklater was just fantastic in this. Wish he was in more stuff. Probably going to do The Haunting of Hill House again next.

Winter’s Bone is great. Leave No Trace is another really good one from the same director (Debra Granik) if you haven’t seen it.

Chopper is another good one from Australia. Rarely ever see anyone talk about it.

I watched the Madame Web video he put up despite having absolutely no interest in it. Mostly out of curiosity after seeing the uproar over him turning into a “Hollywood schill” or whatever. And then he literally went on to bash the studio in the video… Anyway, the above Dune: Part Two review is the topic at hand here. For anyone interested. And he’s hardly alone in his effusive praise for the film from everything I’ve been seeing.

I couldn’t care less if he doesn’t want to bash the latest comic book movie or not. He puts out great content, and I’ll continue to watch his stuff.