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Cats 2019
So the movie is about a group of cats deciding which among them will go to the Heaviside Layer, the gaseous layer of the ionosphere named after engineer-physicist Oliver Heaviside, who happens to be the same dude who came up with the Heaviside step function, which can be used to solve differential equations concerning complex variable calculus, which was a mandatory math class that I apparently enjoyed way more than this snoozefest of a musical I’m sorry
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Elise 2019
At the risk of completely missing the point, I just want to shed light on Elise's nakakalurkey subtitle: First Love is Beautiful Hurt?? Seryoso 'to mumsht? Is beautiful hurt? Aweh??
Anyhow, this one's a dud for me. I couldn't get past the film's failure to question its almost-textbook usage of the male gaze. Elise was nothing but "the bearer of meaning, not the maker of meaning" (Mulvey, 1975).
Elise was viewed through Bert's vantage point, which shouldn't really be an…
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The Possession of Hannah Grace 2018
I watched this movie in a near-empty theatre and all it got out of me was a slight flinch and 10 dozen eye rolls. There are no haunting images that will stay with you for days and the musical score can only do so much to thicken the needle-thin tension.
But the film deserves a full star, I think, because it does have the potential of being a good laugh-out-loud comedy of the So Bad It’s Good genre. That’s pretty rare these days, huh?
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Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
Cookie-cutter biopic with a solid soundtrack (c/o Queen, duh) and brilliant performances (c/o Rami Malek and company). Enjoyable but not groundbreaking. Watching Queen clips on YouTube is a cheaper alternative and is also just as entertaining.