Happy Dia de Muertos!
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)
The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves, whose aesthetic seems to be “cheap Twilight knock-off via low budget Syfy special.” I mean, the colors were half the draw of the first… why abandon that?
It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:
Oct 2022 update: I wrote an expanded review of this, which you’ll find here.
Believe it or not, last year was the first time I ever watched Nightmare from start to finish, and I was completely smitten.
(Note: There’s an updated and expanded review for this film. Read it here.)
Zombies (stylized Z-O-M-B-I-E-S like a pep cheer) is an utterly bizarre, big-budget (for TV) romantic musical about humans and zombies co-mingling, set in a garish, pastel-colored parody of high school.
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Toy Story 2 (1999)
One of my foundational cinematic beliefs that all three movies in the “Andy Trilogy” are 5-star, Tour De Good masterpieces.
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Spontaneous (2020)
Spontaneous is a movie that flits in and out of greatness as quickly as its characters pop like balloons.
Edit: I wrote an expanded review for this following my 2022 rewatch.
Quick overview for the uninitiated (like I was last year): A bunch of interconnected shorts adding up to feature length telling the story of brothers Wirt and Greg wandering some sort of fantastical woods in late autumn.
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Spider-Man (2002)
The first Spider-Man is likely a top 5 superhero movie for me… and it might even be top 3.