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Civil War (2024) - The Best and Worst of Humanity

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            Filmmaker and writer Alex Garland released his newest film, Civil War, this weekend with A24. Garland has made movies such as Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, and the Hulu miniseries, Devs. He’s quickly become a favorite indie auteur in the likes of Robert Eggers and Ari Aster, and is one of my personal favorite filmmakers at the moment. Then it was announced he’d be directing and writing Civil War. At first I was excited because, hey, new film by a great artist. Then came a slight hesitation winced over me with the ongoing tension escalation of political division here in America.       So I watched the film Friday, and if you’re one of those people that too think, “Yikes, I’m really not in the mood for a movie about politics,” then you’re in luck because Civil War is not one of those films.      Instead, the film takes an interesting approach and instead focuses on war journalism and follows photographers trying to get to Washington D.C in the midst of a Second Civil War in
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Why Did the Eclipse Feel So Special?

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 Even as a night owl like myself dig an astronomical event now and again. I’ll be honest and say I was just about done hearing about the total eclipse leading up to the event on Monday. Warnings of traffic were in effect, merchandise was being sold left and right, and everyone was buzzing on the subject, but then it actually happened. And it reminded me how simple, yet fascinating natural phenomena in our universe is.      So what’s the big deal that so many people not only rejoiced, but seemingly came together for a faint moment for an event that lasted mere minutes?     First, I can recant what I know - my point of view during Monday afternoon. My band cancelled practice because traffic was expected to be ass, so better to call off than to wait several hours on the highway. So I just passed out as night shift is some of the most exhausting shit. For real, as I currently type this I’m sitting in the grass in my backyard just to get a pube of sunlight because my body’s dying for a sliv
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Late Night with the Devil (Review)

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      I watched the trailer for Late Night with the Devil a couple weeks ago through David Dastmalchian’s socials. At first I was just ecstatic he landed a leading gig after nailing it as a character actor in films such as Dune - Part One, The Dark Knight, Prisoners, Ant-Man, and the Suicide Squad; small parts but totally memorable.  I love the actor, and then something else about the trailer caught my attention… it looked really good.      I’ll vaguely give the synopsis as to avoid spoilers and you can enjoy the movie yourself. Jack Delroy is a host on the late night show Night Owls with Jack Delroy and is struggling with ratings in comparison to Johnny Carson. In addition to his show on the verge of getting the axe, he struggles with alcoholism and mourns the death of his wife. So he decides to throw everything at the wall for their Halloween episode. The big highlight of the episode is live broadcasting a demonic possession.      The unique thing about this film is that it’s a found
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Dune: Part Two - Review? (Sorta, Not Really)

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    What up, weirdos? Think I can see myself using this blog as a space to indulge myself on thoughts I have sitting in my noggin. Self expression and whatnot. So those who wanna hear my drivel can come here! Sound good? Well, you’re still reading aren’t you? Great.       I saw Dune: Part Two in theaters over the weekend. It was an anticipated film on my end as I thought the first installment had great franchise potential and whatnot with Frank Herbert’s Dune novels and Denis Villeneuve’s (and crew) visionary filmmaking.      I’ll just spoil my ‘review’ on it as I think just reviewing something is very masturbatory and serves no one but myself, so I just say this: I fucking love this movie. So see it. Immediately. On the biggest screen you can! RIGHT NOW!  In all seriousness, it’s basically everything I want in a sci-fi film. I’d go as far as to say it’s a perfect sci-fi film (at least through my perspective).      With that being said, Denis Villeneuve is a figure that very much insp
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Godzilla Minus One(Minus Color) Review/Praise

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So, I’ve seen the newest Godzilla flick because why wouldn’t I? I say that there’s just something special about seeing either kaiju fighting one another or destroying a town. It’s great fun I’ve enjoyed since I was a kid.                Godzilla Minus One/-1 is the latest movie in the Godzilla franchise, coming from Toho this time around. I’m really digging the back and forth because these movies coming from Legendary and Toho. One would think they would follow with a sequel to 2016’s Shin Godzilla, but they opted to have another reboot/standalone, thus us having 2023’s Godzilla Minus One.      I didn’t even know this flick was even a thing until about a month or two before its release in December. And reviews were glowing ( much like Gojira’s dorsil spikes, am I right??? ), like, really , glowing. The kind of reviews you get from Oscar films. So I definitely needed to check out this bad boy more than I was already going to.      And hot damn, this movie is phenomenal.      One of the
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LUNARSONGS (Full Digital Version)

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Forward:  Today I release the follow up to ISOLATIONIST and that is… LUNARSONGS! Instead of the usual sad poems, this one is more focused on horror. A common theme I had when writing this particular batch of writings is nightmares I would have over the year. So I thought it’d be fun is this particular collection followed a single REM sleep and the nightmares that follow… with an appearance of a sleep paralysis demon thing. All fun stuff. So this too has a narrative like ISOLATIONIST does. In ISOLATIONIST, the idea is that the storm must pass over a difficult time in your life. In LUNARSONGS, the night has to end and you will wake up from the bad dreams… Or do you?!?! I promise to be more upbeat in my next collection. Probably not, but I’ll try.  This is a Pay What You Want model and take whatever you want for it! $0? Sounds good. $5? Even better for me. And if you’d like a physical (hand made!) copy, get a hold of me and I’ll be happy to send a copy for $5 (plus shipping.) If you’d lik
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