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DEERSKIN (2019)

If you only watch one movie about a lonely man and his love affair with a jacket and also the jacket wants to be the only jacket in the world, make it this one.

From the guy who brought you RUBBER (a movie that I fell asleep partway through and never returned to) comes something so delightfully surreal and odd and continually surprising that it can’t help but be charming.

Much of the fun of it hinges on the boundless charisma of Jean Dujardin (THE ARTIST, CAIRO: NEST OF SPIES) but as a tiny indie film that knows its scope and works with it, this was a great time.

Best enjoyed knowing absolutely nothing more about the premise or plot.

by Thomas Scott Holland

BETWEEN TWO FERNS: THE MOVIE (2019)

Basically a dozen or so new interviews loosely hung together by a pretense that’s flimsy enough not to really matter overall.

I mean, you’re just here to watch Zach Galifianakis be mean to celebrities, right? In that regard, it’s hilarious. If you can make it through without cracking up at something, I don’t know what to tell you.

Wall-to-wall cheap jokes. Misspelled names gave me the snorts. Will Ferrell as Will Ferrell But On More Cocaine was also great. The over-credit outtakes absolutely destroyed me.

Good for a rainy day or a drunk watch.

by Thomas Scott Holland

REVIEW SPECTACULAR 5: 2019 EDITION

If you’re just now dropping in on these:

I’ve been doing quick reviews/recommendations via FB for years but have finally decided to move them over to the blog here.
There are five collections dating back to 2016 posted now, but from here on out each new review will get its own post so follow my various social medias for notifications!
I try to stay mostly spoiler free and give my impressions and broad recommendations over any in-depth discussions of plot etc. So much of the fun is going into a film or series knowing very little, but there’s always exceptions.
No ratings as they’re too reductive.
I don’t always watch things right when they come out and I don’t always watch everything.
Sometimes I’ll have rewatched something and have noted what I thought that time.

Here’s all of my 2019 watches so far, starting from the most recent:

IT: CHAPTER TWO (2019)
GLOW s03 (2019)
DARK PHOENIX (2019)
MINDHUNTER s02 (2019)
MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL (2019)
ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS (1993)
INVADER ZIM: ENTER THE FLORPUS (2019)
TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)
THE BOYS s01 (2019)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
THE WAILING (2016)
THE LION KING (2019)
DUMBO (2019)
DETECTIVE PIKACHU (2019)
HELLBOY (2019)
HALLOWEEN (2018)
SHAZAM! (2019)
STRANGER THINGS s03 (2019)
MIDSOMMAR (2019)
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (2019)
OVERLORD (2018)
BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018)
VEEP (s01-07)
CHERNOBYL (2019)
JOHN WICK 3: PARABELLUM (2019)
GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS (2019)
ALADDIN (2019)
AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019)
mY GAME OF THRONS REVEIW (2019)
BUMBLEBEE (2019)
PET SEMATARY (2019)
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT s05 (2019)
AQUAMAN (2018)
BLOOD MERIDIAN or THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST – Cormac McCarthy (1985)
US (2019)
LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS (2019)
MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND (1996)
CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)
RUSSIAN DOLL s01 (2019)
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (2019)
LOST IN SPACE s01 (2018)
VELVET BUZZSAW (2019)
GHOST STORIES (2018)
BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH (2018)
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)
MOWGLI (2018)

Enjoy!

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by Thomas Scott Holland

REVIEW SPECTACULAR 4: STILL SPECTACULAR IN 2018

Continuing on, here’s the 2018 batch (and some of late 2017)!
Click through for the reviews.

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (2018)
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018)
CASTLEVANIA s02 (2018)
DAREDEVIL s03 (2018)
VENOM (2018)
THE PREDATOR (2018)
IRON FIST s02 (2018)
THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (2018)
DISENCHANTED s01 (2018)
THE MEG (2018)
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM (2018)
BLOCKERS (2018)
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT (2018)
READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING (2018)
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018)
A QUIET PLACE (2018)
ANT-MAN & THE WASP (2018)
THE EXPANSE s03 (2018)
THE INCREDIBLES 2 (2018)
WESTWORLD s02 (2018)
LUKE CAGE s02 (2018)
HEREDITARY (2018)
SOLO (2018)
DEADPOOL 2 (2018)
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018)
THE TERROR s01 (2018)
THE MAGICIANS s03 (2018)
THE RITUAL (2017)
RED SPARROW (2018)
TOMB RAIDER (2018)
ANNIHILATION (2018)
BLACK PANTHER (2018)
BRIGHT (2017)
THE GOOD PLACE s02 (2018)
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EPPING MISSOURI (2017)
LADY BIRD (2017)
THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)
JUSTICE LEAGUE (2017)
COCO (2017)
BLACK MIRROR s04 (2017)
WIND RIVER (2017)
LOGAN LUCKY (2017)
THE SINNER (2017)
THE PUNISHER s01 (2017)

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by Thomas Scott Holland

REVIEW SPECTACULAR 3 (years since the last one)

I’ve been trawling through all of my old reviews in the interest of gathering them in one place, so if you’ve ever wondered what I watched in 2017 and what I thought of it then wonder no longer!
I don’t have any sort of “Jump To:” feature available, so here’s a list of everything posted below:

LOVING VINCENT (2017)
GERALD’S GAME (2017)
THOR: RAGNAROK (2017)
STRANGER THINGS s02 (2017)
BLADERUNNER 2049 (2017)
mother! (2017)
IT (2017)
SENSE8 s01/02 (2017)
DEATH NOTE (2017)
RINGS (2017)
THE DARK TOWER (2017)
VALERIAN & THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (2017)
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (2017)
THE MUMMY (2017)
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (2017)
BABY DRIVER (2017)
WONDER WOMAN (2017)
ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL.2 (2017)
GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017)
YOUR NAME (2016)

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by Thomas Scott Holland