Hansel Castro

Hansel Castro is a Miami-based writer and cultural critic. Author of The Super Remixed Count of Monte Cristo, now on Amazon 😃

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@sarahlynndawson BOWIE ♥

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Mother of Flies is smart folk horror about the decomposition of life. A father and his daughter face a cancer diagnosis with bravery, even if it forces them to step beyond the laws of logic. Very poetic and disturbing in dialogue and imagery.

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@sarahlynndawson @SphinxMama369 AWESOME!!!

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Night Patrol asks: "What if L.A.’s cops were vampires sucking blood off Blood and Crips?" This reverse Training Day romp stars Jermaine Fowler and Justin Long. Excellent in Tusk and Barbarian, Long has shaken off his purely comedic origins and proven an underrated MVP.

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"Buddy" is a "Barney Goes to Hell" fever dream that surprised me by doing exactly what I thought it would...but for much longer than I thought it would. That will make sense to anyone who's seen "Too Many Cooks" and "Adult Swim Yule Log"- also from madman Casper Kelly.

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🎬 "The Invite"- If Penelope Cruz and Ed Norton showed up for dinner, talking about free love, most bickering married couples would be scrambling to update their Celebrity Sex Pass. https://t.co/TxRPEWzxdS

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@sarahlynndawson Aren't you glad we saw Metropolis after all? ;-)

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📷 Paul W. S. Anderson's Resident Evil. From an era when we were busy wondering whether videogame movies could work, instead of wondering why we were entrusting them to people who couldn't tell a Wii from a UTI. https://t.co/Fq7N3ekbWR

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SCTV = Monty Python > SNL. Canada's 2nd greatest export (after that viral clip with the moose aggressively drunk on maple syrup) and yet I'd only been able to see bits seemingly recorded off the air during a Manitoba Mauler. Netflix now carries all eps. Go watch now.

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@RubenRos "Mess with the Bear, get the Paws." Or something.

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🎬 Is Sexy Back? On the miracle of three recent comedies having "Sex" in the title. Wilde! Which one will land you on a list when you Google it? https://t.co/OGpM4HjtKh

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The only people allowed to die should be at least 50 years older than whatever age I am at the time :-(

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Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t care if you follow the plot of Her Private Hell. The neon-swathed images and the swooning soundtrack, by legendary Pino Donaggio, are enough to make you fall in love. https://t.co/hVimUD9Lah

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Yes, Coyote Vs. Acme is Who Framed Roger Rabbit? by way of John Grisham… but then Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is among the greatest movies ever made. This is one of the summer’s funnest surprises. https://t.co/FOE63nu3j5

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@RealJDDuran I would steal that complete Bergman set

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Disclosure Day was a minor letdown, but Spielberg has earned the right to disappoint. I often think of West Side Story. He made a classic MUCH better- in a genre he'd never tackled! That makes his WWS one of the greatest musicals. We let HIM down by not making it a bigger hit.

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa has made a samurai movie as good as any by the OTHER Kurosawa. The Samurai and the Prisoner is a masterpiece to revisit, and frankly the best non-horror film he has made. I rate it five teacups, and I’ll even throw in the saucers. https://t.co/IoTIwpIjzY

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Samara Weaving has no issues with gunning around, smeared in red-dyed corn syrup, even in the most derivative of settings. In fact, she seems to have taken a liking to it. https://t.co/zuESgjj4yW

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The other great Kurosawa, Kiyoshi, makes disquieting gems where we peer through door frames or wander Tarkovskian landscapes- and often both. Cure and Charisma are an unofficial duology. #film #kiyoshikurosawa https://t.co/bXrALcP3Hw

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Prophecy? A decade before Sex and the City, Mr. Big re-mirandizes Miranda in Law & Order.