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Like yesterday's film, The Last Matinee (2020)  is a movie-lover's movie, set in a South American cinema, whose workers and customers are being stalked by a psychokiller with a very particular and unpalatable obsession. I love that tagline. This film deserves all the eyes on it that it can gather. It's in Spanish (available with English subtitles), but shot very much in the style of an Italian giallo film, although structurally it is very much an '80s-style slasher.  There is zero motivation or dimension to the killer; he's just a Cinematic Psychokiller and the plot is simply about who escapes him and how.   It would make a fine opera. But the film is beautifully stylish and -- unlike genuine giallos -- has a clear, if simple, plot.  It also has one of the greatest foreshadowings / callbacks I have ever seen in a film. I was so delighted when it finally paid off that I stood up in my own home and slow clapped. It's gory, it's simple, it's memorable.  It...

It's the most famous poster for a movie you've never seen and nobody you KNOW has ever seen Exactly as it says on the tin, Popcorn (1991) is a popcorn movie.  It was not well-received when released because, well, it's bat-shit crazy. There's a film student who just may be the daughter of deceased, insane film-maker;  Pictured: insane filmmaker. there's her motley crew of classmates, trying to put on a horror film festival; Any one of whom could have had their own film. there's horror royalty Dee Wallace; Because of course there is. there's the lore of a Cursed Film; Don't ask about the hat. there's a master-of-disguise killer picking off theater-goers and film students; They look better once they cool off. there's giant props and William Castle-style gimmicks galore; You just know one of those characters is named "Skeeter". there's films WITHIN the film, each of them gold in themselves: Since they are spot on parodies of particular...