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The Sparks Brothers 2021
The first time I heard Sparks my reaction to the high note in Something For the Girl With Everything made me literally physically sick. That I am now a huge fan despite this shows you how great a band they really are. One of the most dogged, committed and unique bands of all time, the Mael brothers have spent fifty odd years committing themselves to a very particular and wayward course. They have flirted several times with huge levels of…
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 2019
Is this necessary? Absolutely not. Is it fun? Absolutely yes. Does it spoil the ending of the show? I don’t think so, and Gilligan wisely uses the film as much for a series of fondly written cameos, a couple of showy bits of direction, some black comedy and the usually great performance by Paul. It’s like an extra two episodes tucked away on a DVD box set - I’m particularly thinking of the codas to Lost - but as a film and honestly, I’m fine with that
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Gregory's Girl 1980
there are reasons why this is my favourite film of all time. it has all the strange, unalloyed creative joy of "that sinking feeling" but this time it's all been pulled together to create, as far as i'm concerned, the single best cinematic tale of growing up as a teenager ever: in literature, in television, in cinema. all of it. it's all here, which is kind of my definition of a masterpiece - it sets out to say everything possible…
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Hereditary 2018
Silly of me it may be, but I couldn't face letting the pile of fetid nonsense that is Hereditary be my 6000th film on this webpage SO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS AS THE 6001st and whatever comes next as the true 6000th
Anyway. Where to even start with this nonsense? Aster is undeniably talented - there are several scenes with brilliant ideas in the movie, and he can build tension beautifully. The problem is all those scenes don't even remotely cohere…
