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The Backrooms cinematography

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Movie Review...The Backrooms

(2.5/5) The film starts off genuinely intriguing, pulling you into its weird, liminal energy in a way that feels promising. But once it hits the halfway mark, it starts explaining itself, and that’s where it loses me. The moment it tries to rationalize its own world, the mystery drains out and the whole thing starts to come apart. Its self‑explanation doesn’t actually clarify anything — it just opens up more questions it never bothers to resolve, and then it ends without giving you a real conclusion or even a clear reason for the journey. The A24‑style aesthetic is definitely there, and it adds some texture, but it’s not enough to carry the film

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Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat | S03E06 "Montreal"

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i am so fucking unwell

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Lioness | Season 3 Official Trailer | Paramount+

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Loss.

X-Men '97 01 x 05 - 'Remember It' | 02 x 04 - 'Rise of Apocalypse Part 2'

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Mercury rising, Gary Hershorn (@garyhershorn)

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I Play Rocky | Official Trailer

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X-MEN ’97 — Rise Of Apocalypse: Part 2 (S02E04)

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Movie Review...Mother Mary

(3/5) Mother Mary is an interesting film, to say the least. Once I realized David Lowery was the director, the style immediately clicked. His earlier A24 project, The Green Knight, left me with the same reaction: beautifully shot, poetic, but elusive in meaning. Lowery’s films often feel like they’re asking you to sit with the mystery rather than handing you answers.

From the start, the film leans into the music industry’s reputation for ritual and worship—imagery that doesn’t exactly align with anything godly. The trailer suggested that, and those feelings stayed with me throughout. But the movie isn’t just about that surface layer. At its core, it’s about the relationship between a creator and a muse. Lowery shows how that bond can turn parasitic when boundaries collapse, and by framing it through horror, he makes the obsession feel dangerous and consuming.

The ending pushes things further: the breakup and its bitterness seem to give birth to an entity. Whether that figure is metaphorical or literal is left unresolved, and the film doesn’t clarify. For me, that ambiguity was both intriguing and frustrating—I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to take away.

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance (rottentomatoes.com).

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You two hug it out for her too?

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Jacob Anderson as Louis De Pointe Du Lac in The Vampire Lestat/Interview with a Vampire S03E06

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Dune: Part Three Trailer #1 (2026)

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“How wise.. your mother abandoning you”

Charles is DONE. Clearly the whole mutant MLK gimmick ain’t working, so time to switch it up. I’m sat af for his revenge tour/likely transformation into onslaught. Apocalypse sparing him with Magneto’s words is a nice touch too.

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How I'm feeling after ep 4

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It is not enough to remember the mistakes of our past, Charles. Honor me with action, not tears. That world needs you. It always has.