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Dark Kermit Is Watching
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Dark Kermit is watching… THE MOVIES! We’ll be talking film, TV, and maybe just every now and then a bit of music.

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Hunted down a cinema screening of Frankenstein instead of watching it on Netflix because some films deserve a fucking big screen. Del Toro delivers a gorgeous, tragic gothic feast. Elordi and Isaac are unreal.

Find a screen if you can.

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A ★★★★ review of Frankenstein (2025)
Could I have just watched this on Netflix? Absolutely. Did I instead hunt down a screening because a film like this deserves to be seen properly, on a massive screen, with a room full of strangers all...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Finally watched Lincoln and I thought it’d be homework but it absolutely slapped. DDL is stupidly good, politics has never been this tense, and Tommy Lee Jones is my new hero.

A boring movie that’s somehow bloody enthralling. Who would have known 🤷🏿‍♂️

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★★½ review of Lincoln (2012)
I finally sat down to watch Lincoln properly and honestly I’m kicking myself for not doing it sooner. It’s one of those films I always assumed would be a bit homework-y, like “eat your vegetables, lea...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just watched A House of Dynamite. Tense as hell and painfully realistic. Rebecca Ferguson is the standout but weirdly underused. The ending gives you no real resolution which I respect even though it left me screaming at my TV.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)
This feels like it could’ve been better than it is. Kathryn Bigelow a really tight film: the ticking-clock of an inbound nuclear missile aimed at Chicago unfolds through three overlapping perspectives...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Perfect Neighbor wrecked me. Heartbreaking, powerful, and hard to look away from. But honestly, I’m starting to feel uneasy about how many true crime docs are built on someone’s fresh grief.

Incredible doc, still left me feeling dirty.

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A ★★★ review of The Perfect Neighbor (2025)
The Perfect Neighbor pulled me right in. After watching I felt crushed by the end of this. Then I felt sick. I genuinely don’t know how I feel about watching such moments of familial grief play out on...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Finally watched The Tragedy of Macbeth and I’m annoyed I waited this long. Denzel is phenomenal, McDormand is terrifyingly good, and it’s all so stark and beautiful it feels carved out of nightmares.

This is true Shakespeare.

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A ★★★★ review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
I finally got around to watching The Tragedy of Macbeth, and honestly, I’m kicking myself for not seeing it sooner. Denzel Washington doing Shakespeare under Joel Coen’s direction should’ve been an im...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Watched Barbarian for the first time after loving Weapons and yeah… Zach Cregger is the real deal. Completely unhinged, disgusting, hilarious, and terrifying all at once. You can see the madness that led to Weapons brewing here.

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A ★★★★½ review of Barbarian (2022)
After Weapons absolutely fried my brain in the best way possible, I needed to see what else Zach Cregger had done. So I finally sat down to watch Barbarian for the first time, and holy shit, what a ri...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Finally watched In Bruges after having it on my Letterboxd watchlist for years and holy shit it’s as good as everyone says. Hilarious, bleak, weirdly moving. Farrell and Gleeson are perfection.

Laugh and then immediately hate yourself for doing so.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★★½ review of In Bruges (2008)
I can’t believe it’s taken me this fucking long to watch In Bruges. It’s been sitting on my Letterboxd watchlist for ages, mocking me every time I scrolled past it. Finally watched it tonight, and hon...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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One Battle After Another is pure chaos in the best way. DiCaprio is phenomenal, Sean Penn is terrifying, and PTA swings from absurd comedy to brutal tragedy without missing a beat. Messy, bold, unforgettable.

This is why I love cinema.

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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
Every once in a while a film comes along that feels completely unhinged and yet totally alive, and One Battle After Another is that film. Paul Thomas Anderson could have played it safe but instead he’...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I don’t usually review documentaries but Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is too insane not to. The reveal of who is doing it was one of the wildest stories I’ve ever fucking heard. I hope everyone gets therapy

Real life can be stranger than fiction.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★★ review of Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (2025)
Spoilers ahead. I don’t usually review documentaries. I’m a fiction film guy. But holy shit this one was too wild to ignore. Imagine getting 40 texts a day threatening you, humiliating you, ruining yo...
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September 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Rewatched Weapons on demand and it somehow hit even harder. The perspective shifts feel masterful once you know where it’s going, and Aunt Gladys might be one of the best horror performances of the decade.

No excuse not to watch it.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★★★ review of Weapons (2025)
Watching Weapons a second time on demand only made me love it more. The first time around I was overwhelmed by the shifting perspectives and the sheer weight of it all. This time I could sit with it, ...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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The Long Walk gutted me. One of my favourite King books and this adaptation actually does it justice. Brutal, faithful, and full of heartbreaking humanity. Cooper Hoffman is incredible, Hamill is chilling…

David Jonsson is a STAR.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★★★ review of The Long Walk (2025)
I’ve loved Stephen King since I was a teenager and The Long Walk has always been one of the books that stuck with me most. It isn’t about ghosts or clowns or monsters in the dark. It’s about kids walk...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Dune: Part Two is pure cinema. Epic, terrifying, beautiful. Chalamet finally becomes Paul in a way that’s spellbinding and tragic, Butler is feral brilliance, and Villeneuve delivers myth on a scale I’ve never seen.

Every rewatch is worth it.

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A ★★★★★ review of Dune: Part Two (2024)
Every time I watch Dune: Part Two it feels like standing at the edge of something monumental. This isn’t just a great sci-fi sequel, it’s one of those rare films where craft, story, and performance al...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The Roses is sharp, dark, and painfully funny. Cumberbatch and Colman go for the jugular with every line, and somehow it’s hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. A flawed but deeply enjoyable anti-rom-com held down by two fantastic actors.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★½ review of The Roses (2025)
I went into The Roses expecting a cheeky rehash of The War of the Roses. What I got instead was darker, sharper, and more emotionally precise than most “dark comedies” dare to be today. Beneath the ve...
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September 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Jurassic World: Rebirth is the best one since the original trilogy. Not high praise given how bad the last few were, but at least this feels closer to the old magic. Still silly with its mutant dinos, but it’s fun.

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A ★★★½ review of Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Here we go again. Another Jurassic movie, another excuse to put people in the jungle and watch them run away from things with sharp teeth. And yet, against all odds, this one kind of works. Rebirth is...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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As someone who’s read the novella (and pretty much everything King has ever written), The Life of Chuck really worked for me. Weird, tender, sometimes awkward, but full of humanity. Despite relying on monologues, Flanagan pulled it off.

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A ★★★★ review of The Life of Chuck (2024)
I should preface this by saying not only have I read the short story this is based on, but I’ve also read and loved nearly everything King has ever written. The life of chuck is a stand out in how dif...
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August 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Just saw Speak No Evil (2025). Pure anxiety fuel. Politeness paralysis turned into horror. McAvoy is terrifying without even raising his voice, and the whole film makes you ask if you’d rather die than make a scene.

Spoiler: you probably would.

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A ★★★★ review of Speak No Evil (2024)
There are horror films that rely on blood and shock, then there are the ones that burrow under your skin because they hold up a mirror to something painfully real. Speak No Evil is very much the latte...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Weapons is a slow-burn nightmare that keeps showing you the same events from different angles until the full horror clicks into place. By the end I was gutted, unsettled, and kind of in awe. One of the best horror films in years.

Go fucking see it.

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A ★★★★★ review of Weapons (2025)
I went into Weapons with zero expectations. I’d seen trailers, but upon clicking that there was a mystery element involved I purposefully pulled back. Thirty seconds in I realised this was going to be...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The Naked Gun reboot is fucking hilarious. I haven’t laughed like that in ages. Joke every 30 seconds and 99% of them land. Liam Neeson plays it so straight it loops back around to genius. Watch it. Stupid cinema is alive and well.

A little miracle.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Naked Gun (2025)
I cannot believe I’m saying this but The Naked Gun reboot absolutely fucks. Like properly. I went in expecting cheap nostalgia bait and walked out wheezing like I’d been hit in the chest with a custar...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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War of the Worlds (2025) is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Genuinely feels like it was made by AI. Ice Cube spends 90 mins on Zoom while the world ends in a browser tab. Lifeless, boring, pointless.

This one crushed my soul to watch.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ½ review of War of the Worlds (2025)
I don’t like ragging on movies. I really don’t. Even bad ones usually have something redeeming going on. Some glimmer of vision or effort or at least a cool explosion. But War of the Worlds (yes, anot...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The Thicket is cold, brutal, and pretty damn compelling. Dinklage is great, Juliette Lewis is terrifying, and it’s got that grimy frontier vibe that makes you wanna grow a beard and distrust everyone. This is a western done well.

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A ★★★½ review of The Thicket (2024)
Bleak, cold, violent. This isn’t your dad’s dusty saloon Western. The Thicket throws you into a frostbitten wilderness where morality’s as murky as the swamp water, and if you’re not bleeding or freez...
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August 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The new How to Train Your Dragon is a totally decent remake of a film that didn’t need one at all. Gorgeous flying scenes, solid casting, but absolutely reeks of theme park synergy.

Does anyone really think we needed this shit so soon?

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A ★★★½ review of How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
Look. I love this story. It’s one of the best things DreamWorks has ever done, and the original animated film still absolutely slaps. So when I say that I got swept up in this live action remake, it’s...
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August 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Fantastic Four is actually good. It’s stylish, weirdly emotional, and finally gives a shit about the characters. Pascal’s Reed is brilliant, Garner’s Silver Surfer rules, and the baby… looks like the one from twilight. I’m into it.

Try it out.

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A ★★★★ review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Alright. I wasn’t exactly foaming at the mouth for another Fantastic Four reboot. Marvel’s been handing these poor bastards the cinematic equivalent of a cursed object for years. But holy shit, they a...
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July 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Kpop Demon Hunters is like if Sailor Moon did ayahuasca at a BTS concert and then fought demons with perfect choreography. The songs slap, the animation bangs, and I had a stupid grin the whole time. Give me a sequel. And a tour. And a lightstick.

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A ★★★★ review of KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
This film is absolutely unhinged and I loved every second of it. It’s like someone shoved Sailor Moon, Blackpink, and Dante’s Inferno into a blender and hit turbo. I went in expecting vibes. I got dem...
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July 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Superman (2025) is the reset this genre desperately needed. Corenswet is great, but Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor is the real standout, giving us a scene steeling first class hater of a villain. This movie is hopeful, bold, and actually emotional.

It rocks.

Letterboxd review below:

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A ★★★★½ review of Superman (2025)
I went in fully expecting to like this, but not love it. Superhero fatigue is real and the online backlash leading up to release didn’t help. People on the internet really will manufacture outrage out...
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July 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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My wife made me watch the new Bridget Jones and I wasn’t ready. I’ve only seen the first one years ago and didn’t expect much, but this broke me. It’s funny, honest, and hits hard if you’ve ever lost someone.

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A ★★★★ review of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
I’ve only ever seen the original Bridget Jones and that was back when I was a teenager, half-watching it on TV and mostly just laughing at how awkward she was. I had no real emotional connection to th...
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July 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM