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The Empire Strikes Back 1980
Honestly, I’m not sure whether this is a 4.5 or a 5, because there’s something odd about this movie. Something that almost seems like a downside, but I think is instrumental in Star Wars’ success as a franchise. That is: this movie feels almost like a filler tv episode.
There’s not really a narrative drive. People always talk about how big a deal it is that the good guys don’t win in this, but every second of this movie is…
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Millennium Actress 2001
Secret Cinema Pick
For what has seemed like an eternity now, I’ve been feeling that film was dead. All enjoyment of the medium was gone, every movie I watched getting at best a passive “it was okay” and a checkmark off my ever growing watchlist. But then the spark came back. Satoshi Kon came back. The love had returned.
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a general aversion to anime; anime film tends to go a little better,…
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The Holdovers 2023
It’s fine? Not sure if seeing Dead Poets Society recently hurt this, but it just feels like a very safe version of a bunch of movies I’ve seen before. Dominic Sessa praise is totally warranted tho.
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Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep 2016
I don’t usually use reviews to talk about all of an artist’s outside work, but I’m going to here. This short definitely deserves its five stars, but I think Joe Pera and his work as a whole needs to be examined, this short just being the epitome of it all.
In many ways, I sometimes feel like I connect better to TV than movies. There aren’t that many shows I keep up with, but when I do, I just absorb…
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Cats 2019
Dictionary.com Definition of a Cat: a small domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica or F. catus, bred in a number of varieties.
”A cat is not a dog.”- Old Deuteronomy
”A cat is not a dog.” The most quoted, often derided line in Cats. One that intrigued me from the first reviews I read from the movie. A line that sounds spectacularly dumb. But... what if it was actually the key to unlocking this whole thing? What if cats is actually a very…
