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Film critic. Strange Harbors is a site about movies, television, and pop culture. The Strange Harbors Podcast.

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · 2d

Wife wanted in on the trend, so here are 5 movies each to get to know us:

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · 5d

Faves of 2025 so far

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Jan 1

Nosferatu: Always in the bag for Eggers, but this is the first time I felt his slavish devotion to detail obstruct imagination, and ironically, blood in the veins. My wife literally turned to me afterwards and said: “We should’ve just watched Coppola’s Dracula instead.” I agree.

Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 28

Happy holidays everyone

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 25

Saw Gladiator 2

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 24

Gladiator 2:

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 21

Wicked: Quite infectious and I liked this much more than I thought I would, mostly because Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo break their backs carrying it, but if you watched this back-to-back with Spielberg’s WSS you would go catatonic. John M. Chu just doesn’t have it.

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 19

Extra thoughts on Juror #2

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thank you, Tyler, for the kind words!

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 20

You didn’t specify when you mentioned this on the other place and I was so positive that you meant Nosferatu. Now I know.

Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 19

Luckily, yes!

Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 19

Extra thoughts on Juror #2

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 18

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 18

A Different Man: I loved The Substance, but this is the essential self-hatred text of 2024. Effortlessly smart, a movie with a million layers underneath a cruel, nasty joke of getting exactly what you want. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are unbelievable.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · Nov 14

NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 17

Thanks so much, Daniel!

Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 17

Thank you, Sean!

Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 17

Thank you, Aaron! I literally think about this movie every day. Loved your episode on Thesis with Pascal, and I’m so stoked to listen to your full Red Rooms take!

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 13

On Red Rooms and our moral stasis

Film Review: Red Rooms — Strange Harbors

Digging up turpitude from the deep recesses of dark web opportunism, Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is a serial killer thriller that finds power in its restraint and shocking prescience: an evil — yet vita...

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 17

Juror #2 duty

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · Nov 16

Seeing all my old friends on here again

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 16

You can actually feel the computing power sweat bullets as it tries to imitate something real for 15 measly seconds

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Nov 15

Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial this year is AI-generated 🤢

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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social · Nov 15

Turning over a new leaf on Bluesky by not asking why it looks like that

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · Nov 15

First look at Hiccup in the live-action ‘HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON’ remake.

In theaters on June 13, 2025.

(Source: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...)

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