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Finally saw this classic dark vampire film. It’s really a vampire western. There’s even a tumbleweed. Review from Letterboxd (with minor spoilers): Young Bill Paxton hurts my heart in the best way. Lance Henriksen is beautiful and fascinating. That backlit silhouette scene (you can see it in the
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Link to Letterboxd review, which is fully quoted below. 5 stars, seen multiple, multiple times. Many spoilers abound. “We are not what was intended.” —John Doe’s diary Not noticed before: Excerpt from his diary: someone tapped on his shoulder on the subway and wanted to talk to him. John
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Spoilers abound. From Letterboxd (please feel free to follow me there): Thoughts upon rewatching: 1. Ray Wise is awesome in horror. 2. It’s early in the year for a state football championship, way too early. 3. Where are the rest of the cheerleaders? Driving home? 4. Does the “lady
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You know I adore history, and I knit when my body will let me. When I can’t knit, there is always the pastime of looking at knitting patterns…and the cross-over hobby of researching and perusing historical knitting patterns. Here’s some pretty and fascinating resources I’ve found.
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By way of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Chopped stars off my rating after reading Chaos: Charles Manson,
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The Other Lamb (2019), dir. Malgorzata Szumowska, starring Michiel Huisman as Shepherd, the male leader of a female-only religious cult, and Raffey Cassidy as Selah, his daughter and his fascination No spoilers, unless you consider my religious extracurricular research as a spoiler: <blockquote>”Selah” is a word used
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