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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
Uniquely depressing. 20 minutes of relatively inspired formal play buttressed by the most joyless sludge the MCU has yet offered. If Raimi can’t save this stuff, I doubt anyone can.
Raimi is a director who has always thrived on the limitations inherent in pop-filmmaking, and so I held the most meagre of hopes that this newest MCU joint would provide some respite or course-correction for this woe-begotten, industry-killing franchise. Not the case. Raimi’s ambivalence to such large swathes of the…
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The Northman 2022
about the masculine death drive and how the stories we have told our kin for centuries are all fabrications drenched in blood, yes, but also a director given a large amount of money to splash on hot people caked in mud LARPing; and when every party involved is going in this hard, thats enough for me. unlike The King’s boring attempts at gritty realism, this obfuscates it deeper by grounding it indeed in ultraviolence, but also a deep spirituality. further watches…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Blurred genitals and match cuts, Asian people salsa dancing, a paean to movie stars — the kind of thing people like to call "a big swing." So why do I feel like I got a bag of Froot Loops shaken in front of my face for two and a half hours? Sure, I was only going to get so far with a movie where the action conceit is literally "you have to be random," but it's another case study in…
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The Hour of the Furnaces 1968
A second viewing is essential to fully parse the absolute depth of information herein, but for now: what is most illuminating is the dialogue with the audience. In true pedagogical fashion, there is literally a space for the projectionist to pause to hold questions. In the audience being the principal subject of the narrative, and the narrative being the anti-imperialist revolution itself.
This is why our film ends here. For you to continue it. You have the floor.
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Ambulance 2022
Notes made during a sadly empty IMAX screening:
I don’t particularly like Bay often, but his direction here is sorta remarkable. He’s so much more interesting on a small scale.
Jake Gyllenhaal playing Bradley Cooper playing Jon Peters in Licorice Pizza. Although, it wouldn’t surprise me if he wasn’t acting at all.
Michael Bay cameo as a cop??
Shortest end credits crawl I’ve seen in YEARS. Like less than 3 minutes.
Yahya such a great actor; has the BEST reaction…
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
IMAX ultimate edition. The world truly wasn't ready for this bad boy
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Batman Begins 2005
Not aiming for the same grit and realism as the sequel did. A lot more fun, the city feels like a dystopia within fantasy almost like Burton’s Batman movies. Nice to be able to see the image and not squint at dark, gray, muddy blobs moving around where a third of the image falls into focus.
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The Nun 2018
modern day studio cliche murderdrone, frantically zigzagging from beat to beat to the point of total exhaustion. it’s nonsense, hardly anything really happens aside from people walking around a castle, there’s a bit of dumb humor, and it’s all shot with a grace i can only imagine comes from Wan’s mark on this universe (that being said, i’m reminded mostly of his navigation of space in Aquaman), all continuous motion and shifting perspective and negative space. fun, messy stuff—think it’s kinda lame that so many ppl champion the likes of Fulci & Rollin but won’t afford something like this the same degree of suspension disbelief tbh!
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