RuruSmasher

Bio: My life is a series of movies, mostly comedy, with some tragedy thrown in for good measure. My ratings reflect enjoyment, not some arbitrary standards of 'quality' or 'goodness'.

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45 _5%

Minotaur (2026) - Rated 13 Nov 2026

Honestly, if you've seen one 'middle aged affluent wide dude with marriage issues and morally complicit & corrupt', you've seen them all. Utterly tedious experience, boring hetero marriage dynamics, no insight of bite to be found. Cold, clinical bullshit.

61 _10%

A Talent for Murder (2026) - Rated 13 Nov 2026

Reasonably well-acted fanfic that kind of whimpers away.

42 _4%

Wild Horse Nine (2026) - Rated 13 Nov 2026

Gorgeously shot, such a soulful performance by Malkovich - every time I saw his face I *almost* forgot how fucking evil these guys are!?! Seriously, I don't need to empathize with the greasy guys who oil the wheels of atrocities, they're fucking CIA agents, do you know what happened in Chile after this? (and all the other places they did coups??). Using that place and time as a backdrop for a pretty glib movie is just really poor decision making. Should have stuck with plain assassin characters.

85 _50%

Hokum (2026) - Rated 08 Nov 2026

Adam Scott didn't say 'damnit Jerry', not even once. Pretty fucking scary, though for the last part I started to overthink the whole rug pull thing the film plays with.

95 _91%

The Devils (1971) - Rated 01 Nov 2026

Holy fucking shit, literally. Entirely too much, maybe the most. Oliver Reed as Father Grandier in this is the only person I've ever thought of as 'virile' and I don't know what to do with that energy at all. Saw it with a packed audience, everyone loved the crocodile, but we were all exhausted and silent at the end. Completey spent. Loved it.

62 _10%

Klara and the Sun (2026) - Rated 01 Nov 2026

Felt way too simplistic. Ortega's performance is winning, but the whimsy could only have worked if it had gone way darker and more complicated than it did.

94 _87%

Videodrome (1983) - Rated 31 Oct 2026

61 _10%

Hope (2026) - Rated 26 Oct 2026

Undoubtedly fun, but there is so much action and debris my poor brain can process before it needs nourishment and space. Outside the cinema I waxed poetically for 5 minutes how the forest scenes were letting my brain breathe properly. Turns out the forests were from my country, lol. The forests were wood is stolen and then put in the gross shape of ikea furniture. Anyway, this was fine.

42 _4%

Sense and Sensibility (2026) - Rated 26 Oct 2026

My TCI for this is 90, lol. But as a big Jane Austen fan, what I liked most about it were the doggos. I hated how underlit it was and how it had this brown / sepia sheen. And Fiona Shaw was the only one who was acting in a comedy. Because this has next to no wit, it just ends up feeling melodramatic, which is definitely not my flavor - the wit and the feelings have to go hand in hand. Putting it in my yearly Christmas Austen adaptation rotation nonetheless.

85 _50%

Jennifer's Body (2009) - Rated 22 Oct 2026

I am not the same person I was when I first watched this long ago and I really liked it this time. It's a clever dissection of the male gaze, a juicy messy dynamic between queer women, and also exploring abject theory - in how the beautiful body of Jennifer is 'defiled' over and over, something that is transgressive of current norms. Beautiful bodies of women are meant to be looked at and possessed (but not like that, eh??)