this movie meant a lot to me in my development as An Annoying Person and will always have a place in my heart despite a lot of its provocations feeling kind of whatever now. it remains extremely funny how much it upset certain UK punks who had already kicked off their insufferable self-mythologizing. Vivienne Westwood got so mad she wrote a sanctimonious (and bizarrely homophobic) screed about it on a t-shirt (“Go make a t-shirt about it” will be the…
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The French Dispatch 2021
my bet is that this is a pretty good preview of the next few years of Biden-era pop culture: bloodless, dollhouse depictions of revolt and imprisonment, politics held at arms' length, uncritical odes to ancient media institutions, etc
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The Passing 1984
ambitious zero-budget science fiction that I’m already predisposed to love, but mournful and melancholic in a way I don’t typically associate with these sorts of scuzzy industrial headtrips. that this devotes so much runtime to, like, Secondhand Lions-style reminiscences between two elderly characters already makes it stand apart from most other no-wave art horror things
DIY video fx and some early Cronenberg “fax machine and an empty university library” set pieces are the big draw, and the budget constraints are…
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Last Night in Soho 2021
ok! I needed to elaborate on how annoying this thing was. I don’t hate the guy or anything, but is there a single person less suited to making giallo movie than Edgar Wright? the fussiest, straightest, least sensual director imaginable taking on a genre primarily characterized by its unnerving explorations into fetish? we’ve already glimpsed the farthest depths of Edgar Wright’s carnal appetites and they pretty much start and stop with “what if a cute girl played video games” or…
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
weird, long middle sequence where, one after another, some new "fan favourite" would walk on screen, deliver a line of dialogue, then get gored by an Adobe After Effect. this is probably the future of movies
