AmethystPudding

Favorite films

  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • Demons
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Dead Talents Society

All
  • Lost in Starlight

    ★★★★

  • Dogora

    ★★★

  • Allegro non troppo

    ★★★★★

  • Strait-Jacket

    ★★★★½

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Lost in Starlight

2025

★★★★ Watched

Lost in Starlight (2025) is the next in my random spurt if animated films this month, a movie with beautiful animation akin to The Boondocks, but better, more compelling even (both are animated in Korea). Lost in Starlight also reminds me of the anime Space Dandy in animation style and quality, and that is quite a positive thing. I'm not going to fib to you at all folks, I actually teared up a bit, just simply at the awe and…

Dogora

1964

★★★ Watched

Ishirō Honda, the father of the "Kaiju", the World famous director of Godzilla (1954), Mothra (1961), and Rodan (1956), the Holy Trinity of the Kaiju realms (Sorry Gamera), also directs Dogora (1964). Dogora is about a diamond harvesting/consuming amorphous, atmosphere dwelling Kaiju, that is almost reminiscent of Jordan Peele's film NOPE (2022). Perhaps Peele has seen Dogora before, as he seems to be a huge Kaiju fan of sorts, as made apparent to some degree by the aforementioned NOPE. The…

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Sinners

2025

★★★★½ 2

Watching Michael B. Jordan himself a rolled cigarette is next step awesome to me. Like that scene looks really good and believable, and I honestly don't want to know how they did it, I mean obviously with computer aid, but just wow. All the scenes with them together are just really a testament to how good computer aided graphics have gotten in the film industry. I still much prefer practical effects, but in this case, practical effects really aren't…

Strait-Jacket

1964

★★★★½ Watched

1. "She's coming home....Today."



2. "Just , we're going to a party, not a funeral."



3."It was Hell. Twenty years of pure Hell!



Well, I guess it was inevitable that I would run into not only a Joan Crawford movie, a woman who is both an amazing actress, but also terrifying to me thanks to Mommie Dearest (1981), but also run into another William Castle film. And by "inevitable", I mean bizarrely fitting. Castle, known for his fun, innovative theater…