Whether you’ve seen his films or not, you love his movies, or hate them, you can’t deny the impact David Lynch had on the film industry. RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it.
Here’s what we have for you this week:
Concession Stand Scorecard: The Brutalist
Watchlist Worthy: Oz is back with a satanic toy monkey.

This week’s movie - The Brutalist
Letterboxd Description:
Welcome to America.
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Tóth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.
Best Watched With
Your friend with bunz of steel.
End credit thoughts
The Brutalist is a historical-fiction epic told in three parts that follows the adult life of László Tóth. Tóth is a Jewish-Hungarian architect extraordinaire, who immigrates to the United States after surviving the Holocaust. The grandiose nature of the movie plays well on an IMAX screen; massive visuals and big performances make The Brutalist a moving film.
The score’s gentle tugs and pulls follow the story as it ebbs and flows between wins and loses. The story spans multiple decades and across the world from NYC, to Philadelphia, Small Town, PA and overseas. The set design and costumes give a richness and authenticity as we move from one time in history to another.
Adrian Brody (László Tóth) takes on the monumental task of leading this 215-minute saga. Between the weight of the subject matter and the length of the film, this is a heavy lift, but trust Adrian (the youngest to win an Oscar for lead actor) do it with excellence. The spotlight is following Brody, but just off to the side is Felicity Jones (Erzsébet Tóth). Jones plays László Tóth’s wife who is meek on the surface but a stalwart source of justice beneath.
Part I shows the weight of escaping war-torn Europe and surviving the Holocaust, but in Part II the story gets grim. Recognition, talent, money, and passion are the recipe for power dynamic struggles, control, abuse, and substance use.
It’s a unique cinema experience having a built-in intermission, but for a movie as long as this one, it was needed. If you can handle the material and the expect a four hour experience, this is one to be seen on a big screen.
Watch this one in theaters.
Watch the trailer here
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The Monkey by Osgood Perkins
I just watched the trailer and this looks like Oz gave us his sick, satanic version of Final Destination. No one is safe. Any and all objects can and will be used to kill everyone. Longlegs was one of my favorite movies from last year, and I can’t wait to force Josh to watch this with me.
Letterboxd Description:
Everybody dies. And that’s fucked up.
When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start occurring all around them.
Also Directed by Oz Perkins:
Longlegs (2024)
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