As we roll into the last third of Hooptober 2025 the reviews are once again going to get slimmer. Horror is exhausting, y’all, and man can’t live on blood and gore alone. Thank goodness for Mike Flanagan, who is still batting 1000 after catching up with Before I Wake, his 2016 Netflix film (I did not know that) that eschews any blood or gore in favor of a more subtle film that leverages its frights in service of a story about loss and the lengths we may go to plug the pain it brings. Oh, and Thomas Jane makes some choices…

Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

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Hooptober 12.0 – Before I Wake (2016)