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Little Murders 1971
On paper and in short bursts (Gould and Marcia Rodd going bowling; Donald Sutherland’s sermon; Gould interviewing his parents; Gould’s FBI agent monologue) a movie that was made specifically for me, but, alas, no…in league with Larry Cohen’s BONE: unsubtle commentary packaged in annoying arthouse wrapping paper.
[To be reappraised]
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
"SomE.ONE. Man.U.FacTUreD. YoU."
We're spoiled rotten.
We live in a time saturated with reboots and revivals and instant gratification. It all snowballed so fast, what was at first a medium cornered by HBO, the long-form episodic television drama became a market where everyone had to stake their claim—AMC, Showtime, FX, Netflix, Hulu, and so on, all jumping on the bandwagon. It's all a matter of taste, but everything is so homogenized, everyone watches everything, because every show is written to…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
In the same breath that you can commend EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE's scope and ambition to be wildly different, it remains dead-set on being as painfully innocuous and crowd-pleasing imaginable. Despite the feigned convolution of its multiverse mechanics, EEAAO plays it very safe in its open acknowledgment that the film's rules deliberately don't make sense and its humor that was made to be torn to shreds via incessant memes. The fact that 'Daniels' began their career as commercial and…