Jacob Knight

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Favorite films

  • Body Double
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
  • High Crime
  • The Swimmer

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  • September 5

    ★★★½

  • Queer

    ★★★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★★½

  • Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

    ★★★

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  • September 5

    September 5

    ★★★½

    Obviously touchy material delivered with a straightforward, process-driven approach that zeroes in on the actual sorting of information, deciding when and how to broadcast it, and what responsibility those who make these calls are left with when the night’s program is over and they have to wake up and do it all again the next day. Going to struggle finding an audience receptive to its mostly objective POV, but that might be the greatest compliment it can receive. It’s more…

  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★★

    “I want to talk to you without speaking.”

    A movie for sad, horny, aging weirdos who have spent plenty of nights high with nothing but their record collection to keep them company. Nobody makes films about longing and loneliness quite like Luca. Guess I get why people don’t like it, yet it’s so specifically tuned to my frequency that I was an absolute mess by the time the credits rolled.

    [Source: Awards Screener]

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  • The Haunting of Hill House

    The Haunting of Hill House

    ★★★★★

    “You all go on without me.”
    “How could we?”

  • Prey

    Prey

    ★★★★

    Cleans the franchise up after the over busy clunkiness of Shane Black’s entry by reducing the logline (and, in turn, the iconic alien beast) to its pro wrestler essence. “Predator vs. Commando” transformed into “Predator vs. Lethal Weapon” before “Predator Battle Royale”. Now, it’s “Predator vs. Native Warrior”, stripping all pretension away and barely leaving room for anything beyond one properly choreographed and thrillingly gnarly set piece after another, arrows and tomahawks flying and drawing green blood as the ultimate…