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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2021.09.18

We watched this with the kids. It's about the villains from dozens of horror novels being released into a generic American city by some teenagers. It's friendly fare for younger kids, because not a lot is really ever at stake and there's little more violence than some freeze-ray stuff and endless car explosions. And I have to say it was one of the least annoying performances I've seen from Jack Black. It was fun and ridiculous.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

I'm constantly amazed at how difficult it is to break free of the straitjacket of the immediately urgent.

—michael werneburg