I'd heard so much about this and expected a lot from it, but maybe I expected too little? I can completely understand how mother! has become of the most divisive films in recent memory; it exists in this sort of nightmarish realm of cinema I didn't know quite existed, and it causes such a visceral reaction that it's simply impossible to put into words if it is a good experience or a bad one. There's millions of theories about what…
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Cats 2019
By now, you're probably aware that Cats has had a reception not dissimilar to Harold Shipman at a nursing home Christmas party. Seemingly doomed from the start, Cats has went from a perturbing trailer to a career-ending car crash from which no one will recover. 1.5 star average? Yikes.
And technically? A horrific film. The obfuscating cinematography and embarrassing visual effects come together to create a grimy, frightening orgasm of feline moans and dank, dark London streets that calls to…
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A Man There Was 1917
Comes with the various trappings of silent cinema but surprisingly engaging for a fairly simple morality tale from over 100 years ago. Might not be on the same level as some of Sjostrom's more revered works but the writer-director-actor is strong in the lead role and, at a slinky runtime of 56 minutes, never outstays its welcome.
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Legally Blonde 2001
i've watched this so much i've actually started noticing goofs/sloppy editing because it's so engrained in my brain. best movie ever
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Moonrise Kingdom 2012
I adore the medium of film. The fact that anything can happen, in any place, any time period, excites me in a way nothing else can. Of course, there's the stinkers of the movie world, but for every unfortunate event playing out on screen, there's two or three prodigious ones. However, the film world may be dandy and fresh, but there's one thing that has always got on my nerves.
Whenever a child star portrays a lead character in a…
