Nosferatu (2025) (8/10)
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Wicked (2024) (8/10)
This movie has certainly been a long time coming. I remember seeing the play on Broadway when I was in high school. Based on the book by the same name by Gregory Maguire, the film "Wicked" is an American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu. This is only Part 1 of 2 so we have another installment of "Wicked" on the big screen in the future. Overall I would say, in general, that the film was lovely. It ended up being in the top 10 movies of 2024 and I'd say that's well-deserved. Honestly I was surprised it wasn't ranked in the top 5. The "Wicked" story holds a special place in my heart, seeing as it permeated my whole experience in my local theatre program back home circa 2008. I went to New York with my Mom and Sister to see some sort of Tribute show on Broadway and it was wonderful. We knew all the songs and would sing them in the car on the way to school. It was a whole thing. Making not one but TWO feature-length films so ...
Suspiria (1977) vs Suspiria (2018)
The original "Suspiria" is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento. It is the story of an American ballerina who comes to a prestigious German ballet studio and soon realizes that things are far more sinister than she bargained for. The remake of "Suspiria" is a 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Luca Guadagnino with the same basic plot of the 1977 version. I watched both of them in the same day and that choice really put their stark contrasts into perspective. Honestly they were so different from each other, it almost felt like watching two different films instead of an original and a remake. They were basically polar opposites in appearance and cinematography. The original seems to be more highly-rated than the remake, though I'm not sure how much of that is nostalgia and how much is honest preference. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the difference is 4.5 vs 3.5 respecti...
