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“Hey man, my name’s Adolf. This is my good friend Jojo.”

You may be surprised how hilarious Nazis can be.

Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a small child growing up in Nazi Germany who’s enrolled in the Hitler Youth camp and fanatic about their ideology. Unfortunately for Jojo, but not the rest of the world, his youthful enthusiasm, naivety, and inexperience doesn’t make him the best Nazi. As shown during a scene where he ends up giving himself a limp and a facial scar that everyone makes of point of saying is hideous, even though it’s one of those scars that doesn’t diminish their actor’s good looks at all.

This is…

To start with, I have one thing to say.

Get Out is the better movie. I’ve now seen Us twice, and while it’s gotten better the second time, Get Out is still the better movie. Yeah, I thought I’d get that one out of the way immediately.

It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to…

Come back next week for an even more awful play on words.

This week in my gender and horror class, we’re talking about Hereditary. Luckily for me, we’re allowed to skip two assignments for that class, but that means I don’t have a movie. So instead, I decided to talk about the Slumber Party Massacre series, a trilogy of horror movies that were all written and directed by women.

A good reboot that nobody wanted.

A great thing about the internet is movies being released online before they’re out on DVD.

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, I’ve decided to look at a film that was made by and stars a cast of mostly women. Charlie’s Angels (2019), written, directed, and starring Elizabeth Banks.

The joys of motherhood II: having a teenager

Plus some other stuff about religion and gender.

Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has a problem. Several strange things happening around her young daughter Regan (Linda Blair), such as her daughter’s new behavior. As if she’s been possessed by a demon. Because a demon has possessed her, I hope I’m not spoiling that for anyone.

The joys of motherhood

Though if you want a real horror story, you should asky my mom how I was born.

“You look great. It’s that haircut that looks awful. You want the truth, honey, that’s the worst mistake you’ve ever made.” No Guy (John Cassavetes), the worst mistake Rosemary (Mia Farrow) ever made was marrying you. On the night that they plan to conceive a baby, Rosemary ends up passing out, and when she wakes up with scratches on her body, Guy says that he went right on ahead because he “didn’t want to miss baby night.” Then, when Rosemary tells him that she dreamed that she raped by someone inhuman, Guy responds “thanks a lot.” Okay, it’s the ‘60s, so that type of thing was probably acceptable back then, but Guy is such an a*s even outside of that.

In a small town…

I hope you like this movie more than I did.

As I’ve previously mentioned in my Pet Sematary review, typically I’d start my review with a basic outline of what happens before going into my thoughts and feelings. I feel like in most cases, that’s a good way to structure a review. Okay, so now I’m going to tell you what Knives and Skin is about. Okay, so what is this movie about?

As the T-800 said to the trucker…

How should he have known to get out?. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) should have known to get out because before he even meets the parents of his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), they hit and kill a deer with their car. Then the police officer who arrives on the scene asks to see Chris’ I.D., even though Rose was the one driving. That’s not one, but two different omens that point towards getting the hell out of dodge.

The night that started it all

Before the dawn, day, land, diary and survival. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Night of the Living Dead (1968). This is it, the one that started it all. Where George A. Romero created the modern zombie genre as we know it, launching multiple different sequels, copycats, homages, and parodies like this one that was written by yours truly. With that shameless bit of self-promotion out of the way, let’s get to what the movie’s actually about.

It’s Harley Quinn’s world, they’re just living in it

**Why didn’t I just use the money I spent on The Gentlemen for this?**

This movie’s got its title wrong. Instead of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), it should be Harley Quinn (guest-starring the Birds of Prey). (I dare you to say that sentence five times fast.) I suspected as much after 99% of the advertising was Margot Robbie centered, but it’s still disappointing. This movie has an excellent cast that had me hoping that wasn’t going to be the case.