Fontaine's Film Wipe

I went into this movie thinking of the only true horror film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, "The Silence of the Lambs," and expected writer/director Osgood Perkins to deliver. The son of Anthony Perkins ("Psycho") and Berry Berenson ("Remember My Name"), Perkins has filmmaking in his blood, so my hope that he would move the ball forward from Jonathan Demme's 1991 classic seemed a reasonable one. Instead, "Longlegs" turned out to be a massive disappointment.  All the right fixins' are here: good cast (Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood), good cinematography (Andés Arochi), good sound design (Joe Dzuban and Zach Seivers), and good idea -- make Cage a monster, Buffalo Bill style. Yet somehow the film falls flat and lacks substance, dimension, animus, and most of all, scares. There is much ado about "Longlegs" in the online film community, with many hailing it as "almost perfect" and "the scariest

Image is property of Toho Studios,   TOHOスタジオ株式会社 "Because, my war isn't over yet."  This line, delivered by Ryuunosuke Kamiki, defines "Godzilla Minus One" (2023). Set at the end of World War II, the film portrays his character as a haggard symbol of the pathos of postwar Japan, a nation wracked by defeat at the hands of Western nuclear might. He is a failed kamikaze pilot who defected in a very un-Japanese and dishonorable way from his very Japanese and honorable suicide mission to hide out at a military repair-shop called Odo Island, and is immediately met with the quiet judgment of his peers; yes, the war is obviously over, and has been definitively lost, but still, he should have obeyed orders.  I viewed this film from a limited lens of having only seen one Godzilla movie in my life: "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962), an orgy of model train crashes and corner-store sparklers that I watched on a loop as a kid. It has been widely hailed as the worst o