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It's been years since I last watched The Assassination of Jesse James but I remember it as a reasonably subtle movie. Definitely not the case for Killing Them Softly, or (sounds like) for Blonde. It's a shame. I'm getting so tired of movies screeching messages at me (recent example, Don't Look Up), and having a male director screech at me about sexism is not appealing, to say the least. My kingdom for more films that made their cases as devastatingly as Ex Machina!

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Yeah, you're not going to like this one. And, as always, that's OK. It's a movie I have a hard time recommending in the traditional sense of "You've got to see it!" But it definitely had an effect on me.

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Do you think the director of Speak No Evil has seen Twin Peaks

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I'm not sure. What's the connection?

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I don't think I can post images on here (?) but the image feels like a total reference to the Cooper/Bob laughing in each other's faces picture (https://garmonblogzia.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/x_5d2dac1f.jpg) one that's pretty widely out there on the internet.

I am like, beyond stoked to see Speak No Evil, btw - review only stoking the fires!

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Oh wow, I didn’t think of that. But is that a actual shot from Twin Peaks or a promotional photo? Either way, they have nothing much in common context-wise. (And I’d love to hear your thoughts on the film when you see it.)

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I'm not sure about this exact image but there is something like it in the original Twin Peaks finale with the Cooper Doppelganger and Bob that might actually be even more of a straight face to face like the Speak No Evil image. It's an image that's burned in my brain for decades so, every time I see this promo still for SNE it pops in my brain.

I hope to see it soon - as a Shudder Brudder it's on my 'watch soon' list absolutely. (These are fine times for us horror and horror-adjacent fans!)

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