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La cabina 1972
What a great little surprise this short was. It was actually my mother the one who told me about La Cabina some years ago, but I never get around to it until today. The premise sounded like some sort of spanish Twilight Zone episode: "a man gets trapped in a mysterious phone box and can't get out".
What starts as a surreal comedy turns quickly into a horror thriller. La Cabina takes an object so common and inoffensive as a…
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Gorilla Interrupted 2003
Gorilla Interrupted is a low-budget amateur movie that the guys from RedLetterMedia made back in 2003, the shooting of the movie lasted only a week, and it was a complete chaos. The movie ended up being a disaster, but since they have gained some success and popularity over the time with the Phantom Menace review and their film-review site they decided to release a remastered version of the movie.
I was rather hesitant about seeing it, but it ended being…
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The Master 2012
Wow, what a film, watched it last night, but I needed to digest it a little more to make a review. The Master is probably the most ambiguous film I have seen in a while, and it has obviously led to a lot of confusion. And no, I can't say that I have fully understand it, but here are my thougts:
I can't help myself but to see some similarities between aspects of the film and Freud's theories. In the…
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Paths of Glory 1957
Stanley Kubrick covered various and different genres through all his career, from film-noirs like The Killing and Killer’s Kiss, to big epic spectacles like the historical Spartacus and the futuristic 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, and also covering the horror and psychological thriller genres, among others. Although I’d say that one of his bigger inputs was in War Films, going back to this genre multiple times, firstly with the amateur Fear and Desire, then with Paths of Glory and ultimately,…