I've recently delved back in to a hobby that I used to really enjoy, but slipped away from me during some phase or transition in my storied life.
Watching movies.
More precisely; watching movies at the theater, alone.
It struck me today, while in the theater, alone, that I should write reviews, so that other people can marvel at my brilliant observations.
Or, y'know, just so maybe someone might stumble across one and say unto him-or-herself, "Oh, he hates it... then clearly I must rush out to see it."
On the docket today we have The Possession, which is basically the Jewish Exorcist, minus the whole "actually scary" thing, at which the Exorcist excelled.
The only performance worth noting was 13 year old Natasha Callis, who does a beautiful job in the role of the sweet girl who winds up playing host to a demon & the becomes creepy enough to want to make you lock your kids in their rooms.
Actually that was a lie. Her performance was not the only one worth noting... just the only one notably good. The role of the mother is made into a buzzing shrew by Kyra Sedgwick. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, as the father, sheds light on why he's usually cast as a dead guy (see Supernatural, Weeds, Watchmen), and in one of the most devastatingly poor casting choices since Keanu Reeves was hired to play anything other than Ted "Theodore" Logan, the role of the exorcist (played in the aforementioned film, The Exorcist, by one of the greatest actors of any age, Max von Sydow) was handed to Matisyahu.
Matisyahu is good at what he does.
What he does ain't actin'.
Ultimately, if you're home late one night & it's on cable... go to bed. What are you doing up at this hour? Watching scary movies? Pah! You'll rot your brain.
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