I ended up picking a shorter movie for Saturday because, at 3:30 am (technically on Sunday morning), I ended up fully watching a movie I previously mislabelled as horror because a) it was actually really fucking good and b) it had such a strange, almost surreal, beautifully shot, calming nightmarish property to it that I persevered thinking it might have slow-burned its way into a horror movie. (The movie, in question, was the excellent Hungarian film Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time).
I wasn’t tired, but in the interest of finishing a movie before the night was really over (I consider it over at 6 am), I had to pick something quick – so LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales it was. Much like every other LEGO movie, it’s far better, funnier, and warmer than it needed to be (I was already giggling within the first 2 minutes).
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An Englishwoman in Salem 