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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Heartfelt period-piece rendition that directly tackles the origins of how Godzilla became the legendary atomic beast, along with the plight & trauma of the Japanese in post-World War II Nihon. Godzilla Minus One's main strengths are its powerfully human story of Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) living through the trauma of his past mistakes and inability to allow others in - in addition to the rest of the human characters who are fully fleshed-out with their own dimensional depths & issues, who often just…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997
The complex and controversial 'end' to Neon Genesis Evangelion, one that is both utterly heartbreaking and visually mesmerizing. As I touched upon in my NGE write-up: Where I split is Hideaki Anno's treatment of his characters that doesn't match any of the tones set forth from the series. Even Misato Katsuragi feels like an entire differently written character. Is there a clear end and do these moments build-up & cross over from the series? Yes, however Hideaki himself was angered by…
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The Farmer 1977
On November 4th, 2021 a washed-out and color-faded fuzzy copy of The Farmer (Supposedly sourced from a copy of a copy that was a U-matic tape labeled 'blank' and sold on eBay) had made its way onto YouTube. For a film that's considered 'semi-lost' for the past 40+ years and caught in the extremely tight grip of a very few, this revelation was an incredible moment in cinematic-history and would mean an extraordinarily great deal to many Exploitation/1970's Action fans,…
