Hideo Kojima is only a man. A extremely cool man, little doubt, since in between working (presently Dying Stranding 2 for my mail supply acolytes on the market) he’s usually simply trying out any motion pictures or exhibits he’s missed and regaling his on-line viewers with tales of how a lot he’s beloved them. Genuinely, that’s gotta be the life, proper?
Previously, Kojima has spotlighted Dario Argento’s Opera (an unsung masterpiece) and helped herald viewers for the distinctive YouTube sequence Pretend Documentary Q. The latter is totally bone-chilling and value trying out. Lately, Kojima lastly caught up with one in every of 2024’s greatest horror motion pictures, a title that not solely made a number of employees High 10 lists, but additionally landed at quantity 4 on the collective Dread Central 2024 rating. With the movie now streaming on Max, make like Kojima and test it out.
Per Max: Launched to a mysterious late-night TV present — a imaginative and prescient of a secret, supernatural world — teenage Owen’s actuality begins to crack.
Jane Schoenbrun’s I Noticed the TV Glow is, fairly frankly, a masterpiece. In my assessment out of the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition, I wrote, “I Noticed the TV Glow is not any much less singular, a groundbreaking odyssey of trans-identity and queerness whose horror-adjacent trappings constantly elevate it to basic standing.” I Noticed the TV Glow was even ranked as my favourite horror film of the yr. I do know there are naysayers who don’t assume the movie is horror, however in case you actually let it sit with you, you’ll perceive why it’s been so positively obtained.
Lately, Hideo Kojima not solely checked the movie out however subsequently spent a number of days tweeting about it. He actually beloved it, y’all. On a flight, Kojima remarked that of all the flicks he watched, I Noticed the TV Glow was the one one which caught with him. You possibly can try his remarks in full beneath:
On the flight again, I neither learn a guide nor wrote something—I simply stored “modifying in my head” whereas listening to music. I did watch a couple of motion pictures, however the one one which caught with me was “I Noticed the TV Glow,”directed by Jane Schoenbrun and distributed by A24. pic.twitter.com/sZFEkS7p72
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) February 1, 2025
The next day, Kojima merely tweeted out a screengrab of his telephone’s music app. Guess what film’s soundtrack he was listening to?
Good Morning. pic.twitter.com/QfnNAlxuuV
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) February 1, 2025
Then, for good measure, Kojima tweeted out I Noticed the TV Glow’s trailer.
I Noticed The TV Glow | Official Trailer HD | A24 – YouTubehttps://t.co/7nvH0hVoRm
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) February 1, 2025
Suffice it to say, Hideo Kojima is a licensed I Noticed the TV Glow fan. It jogs my memory of these outdated US Weekly editorials. “Hideo Kojima! He’s similar to us!” Genuinely, I Noticed the TV Glow is a masterpiece, a singular piece of cinema that’s profoundly human and recurrently scary in its existential dread. It’s nostalgia as horror, and in case you’ve in some way missed it, now’s pretty much as good a time as any to lastly examine the movie out. Bear in mind, you’ll be able to catch it streaming on Max.
What do you assume? Do you agree with Hideo Kojima? Any plans to examine I Noticed the TV Glow out? Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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