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Theater movies this week:

Rosario: I was really looking forward to this because the trailer made it look like a fairly traditional cultural horror piece. But something was off with this one. Tonally, it just seemed to make very odd decisions throughout the course of the film. If you've seen this trailer, then I feel you'd say it looks a lot like Evil Dead (the newer one) or something similar. While as a series Evil Dead has been known to have some humor to it, I feel like the newer one sort of steered the series back in a darker direction and I was hopeful this movie would be in that sort of vein. While there's gore and blood, and the effects look nice, it's just like they used a different writer for certain parts. There are weird one-liners from the main character sprinkled throughout, and they totally wasted Dastmalchian. Not even sure why they hired him to play this part. Not a bad movie I guess, but the longer it went the less sense the plot made and the main character became very annoying after a while.

The Surfer: This is a psychological thriller film, so it's fringe but I tend to just include things I feel like fit well enough for me. There's a definite feel of uneasiness and uncomfortable moments that are sure to please you, especially if you are itching to see Nic Cage just go batshit crazy. This film has that, so unlike Rosario the trailer didn't lie! But yeah this was a good one, there are a lot of themes it tackles and it tells the story of pretty complex characters in an unsettling way. This film has the amount of Cage in I wanted from Longlegs, and again he's pretty unhinged through most of the movie. Good stuff.