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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

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