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Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 3:41PM 
We're laying low today but will surely pick something scary to watch tonight. If you need something frightening to think about to get you in the holiday mood, though, imagine Jared Leto winning a second Oscar when...
American Psycho, Halloween, Holidays, House of Gucci, Jared Leto Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 3:45PM 
When reading the list of films shortlisted for the Portuguese Oscar submission, I confess I was a tad disheartened. Only two of the six films had even been released when the finalists were announced, and I only had watched one of them. The other happens to be a project that reeks of exploitation, which I wasn't enthusiastic about promoting. At least, the film I did see, Catarina Vasconcelos' The Metamorphosis of Birds, was one I loved, going so far as voting for it as one of the best unreleased films on last year's Team Experience Awards. As luck would have it, the voting body responsible for the submission fell for it too…
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 9:00AM Three tweets that made us giggle...
Less Dune Part Two talk, more 2 Barb 2 Star talk.
— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) October 27, 2021
If a movie has to be watched then it isn’t a good movie
— C. Mason Wells (@cmasonwells) October 26, 2021
Let's stop making movies until we've seen all the old ones.
— Dave Kehr (@dave_kehr) October 26, 2021
More after the jump including Derek Cianfrance, Paul Verhoeven, and lots of Dune and Dune Part Two jokes...
Friday, October 29, 2021 at 2:00PM 
by Nathaniel R
"Do you like scary movies?"
Glamorous mod movies?
Psycho thrillers?
Ghost stories?
Actress twinning movies (a la Persona, Mulholland Drive, Black Swan)?
I wish we could report that Last Night in Soho would satisfy all those disparate urges or even a single one of them. But alas...
I first saw the movie in Venice and though that was just under two months ago, this ghost story haunts as one of the worst of the year. Was I unduly harsh with a "D" from the Venice review? From the review...
Last Night in Soho, moviegoing Friday, October 29, 2021 at 10:00AM We've been celebrating Winona Ryder all week for her 50th birthday
by Matt St Clair
During this pandemic, I’ve thought a lot about the climactic scene in Girl, Interrupted (1999) where Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is in the tunnels of Claymoore, confronting Lisa (Angelina Jolie) for pressing her buttons and trying to force her to feel the same amount of misery she does. As Susanna contemplates how the overall world is a cruel, inhuman place, she still proclaims, “I’d rather be in it!”
At first glance, that proclamation is confusing. For Susanna, Claymoore and its thick walls are initially an escape from the cruel outside world. But between the specialists surrounding her generalizing what she’s feeling, and Lisa who acts as a confidante before proving that misery loves company, Susanna realizes that Claymoore isn’t entirely different from the world. Ultimately, she decides she’d rather be miserable yet out in the open than miserable and locked away...
1999, Angelina Jolie, Girl Interrupted, Oscars (90s), Winona Ryder