The sole film I saw at Adelaide Film Festival this year, which is a disgrace, but I was pleased to hear from the festival director that AFF will now resume its annual rhythm as opposed to only occurring biennially as it had for the previous few fests, so I won’t have as long to wait to make up for my poor showing. As for Poor Things, it’s far from a poor showing, but falls well short of Yorgos Lanthimos’ best…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Having not watched a film for close to 4 months, I can’t say I found myself running back to the cinemas to see a historical biopic, even if it is helmed by Chris Nolan. I took the opportunity, however, upon the invitation of my sister, which was accepted with no small amount of personal pride that my brotherly guidance provided over the years saw her balk at the prospect of Barbie on the big-screen.
The film itself? Well, it depends…
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Blossoms & Blood 2003
Could easily watch 90 minutes of pure Scopitone play.
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Punch-Drunk Love 2002
For my money, Punch-Drunk Love is an abject failure as a sincere romantic drama. There’s some irony to the fact the pudding premise, which seems too extraordinary to be real, has its roots firmly planted in reality, but the idea that a woman of Emily Watson’s relative quality would ever find reason to entertain Sandler’s literal man-child antics for a second is too ridiculous a concept to hold the ‘romance’ together. Luckily, Punch-Drunk Love manages to provide entertainment enough in…
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The House That Jack Built 2018
Murder as art. Art as murder. Engineering. Architecture. Heaven and hell. The tiger. The lamb. The dark light. The noble rot.
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Avengers: Endgame 2019
If Infinity War was, as @kernetcetera so eloquently described, ‘television’, then Endgame is the TV finale, the send-off show, the goodbye episode that wraps it all up with a nice little bow and gives the fans an opportunity to pay their respects to characters that had been a part of their lives for so many seasons. On that note, it’s certainly not the type of film that was made for someone like me, and I was a fool for thinking…
