Noreen Plabutong

Sep 17, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Noreen Plabutong |Ella Kemp

Mike Flanagan’s name is synonymous with those ghastly terrors that keep you up all hours of the night. From his chilling Netflix series like The Haunting of Hill Houseand Midnight Massto films including The Shining sequel Doctor Sleepand home-invasion thriller Hush, this is a man who has developed a knack for sending chills down your spine.

Aug 17, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Robert Daniels |Adam Davie |Noreen Plabutong

This essay contains detailed spoilers for Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society. “RICKY!” If you’ve watched John Singleton’s urgent 1991 directorial debut Boyz n the Hood, you can probably hear the exact tenor, feel the exact voltage, breakdown to your knees with the exact force felt by Tre and Ricky’s mother and girlfriend over Morris Chestnut’s slain football player.

Jun 27, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Noreen Plabutong |Ella Kemp |Rafa Sales Ross |Big Picture

“You guys wanna go see a dead body?” It’s the question that triggers the boyhood adventure at the heart of Stand by Me, a tender drama about four friends who wander out of their small town to search for a missing boy’s remains. If that sounds a bit morbid (it is), it might not be a surprise that the movie is based on a 1982 novella called The Body, by the horror master himself, Stephen King.