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https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/first-blood-1982 · 18 Aug 2024
An intense, timeless and violent action thriller. Stallone manages to convey some genuine vulnerability towards the film's conclusion and the whole film speaks to the way in which unrelenting cruelty can break anyone. Couldn't they have just left the guy a...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-watchers-2024 · 16 Aug 2024
A subdued thriller with a few twists, turns and a standout performance by Dakota Fanning. It's not perfect, but it is a solid and entertaining journey. I'm curious to see what Ishana Shyamalan does next.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/twisters-2024 · 13 Aug 2024
A note for note, perfect summer blockbuster. It's got a charismatic ensemble cast, feels and villains meant for the moment (climate change, data brokers et al). It's fun. Go watch it.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/out-of-darkness-2024 · 12 Aug 2024
A dark, beautifully cinematic vignette highlighting the human tendency to fear and destroy what we don't understand. Deeply atmospheric, chilling and austere — "nasty, brutish and short" (as Hobbes would put it — though the phrase has been used to the ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/wrath-of-man-2021 · 8 Aug 2024
An above average Statham film, capably guided by Guy Ritchie. It doesn't really transcend the genre, but does an excellent job of giving the whole film an emotional heft via H's son that a lot of Statham's movies lack. It was nice seeing Josh Hartnett (he ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-abandon-2024 · 4 Aug 2024
An outstanding — almost entirely — one room thriller anchored by a brilliant performance by Jonathan Rosenthal. It plays wonderfully with the tenuous human connection he established with Damsey who exists purely as a staticky voice on the other end of ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/night-shift-2023 · 3 Aug 2024
An engaging — and altogether brief — thriller. It's not the scariest movie but it is clever and did a good job of consistently throwing every hunch I had for how events would unfold out the window (was that final bathroom scene where Alice is fleeing a...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/iss-2024 · 2 Aug 2024
In space no one can escape human nature. Or something. A solid cast, engaging movie and a pretty clearly choreographed lesson in either sticking together or failing apart, mirrored by the events on earth below.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/simulant-2023 · 1 Aug 2024
A nicely rendered and competently acted movie that says a bit more by not asking more interesting questions. It's the future, people are cloning themselves as androids (the legality of which is questionable) and with all of that technology all we've done i...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/a-quiet-place-day-one-2024 · 31 Jul 2024
Wow. What a movie. The most compelling part of the movies set in John Krasinski's Quiet Place universe is the way in which they succeed so deftly at humanizing characters and telling stories when their characters are allowed to speak so sparingly. Lupita N...