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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023
BIEFF 2023
Jude firmly in shitpost mode. I guess the theory is if you do something hard enough for long enough yr gonna nail it. Bad Luck Banging was a fine thesis but as cinema? No. Sfârșitul Lumii resolves so much of those academic shortcomings by giving itself over to the life and times of an overworked workplace health & safety assessor, played with memorable ferocity by Ilinca Manolache (who was at the Q&A and was as gorge as she was…
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Sorcery 2023
Ok so most of you know the Germans invaded Chile in the 19th century but I'm guessing most of you didn't know the natives formed their own cultural resistance, sometimes involving wearing the skins of the elders in order to resist oppression. The key with Chris Murray's occult drama is don't expect a proper movie, jump scares, and fully fledged revenge but a sensitive slow-apocalypse in which child actress Valentina Véliz Caileo, baptized by waterfall, gets to refrigerate yr bones…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
Phenomena upon phenomena upon phenomena.
Where are we even at with media?
What night-time lost highway are we on?
What year is this?
Who would even know how to write this up? The linguistic gymnastics it would require to detail the specific machinations of drama on display here are well out of my reach. Why even bother with a synopsis – a dutiful major is assigned to the hangover of Project Blue Book and unearths the mysteries of the evil…
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Amateur 1994
I been busting out the classics to get me through and man, these movies are just life support. This is a big one in my personal growth. First saw it at 16 when it had just come out for video rental and I'd never seen anything so distinctively kind-natured whilst treating of such dark complex social issues. The very premise, that evil is just mnemonic, that we could all be just a bump on the head away from deliverance from…
