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Army of the Dead 2021
Zack Snyders's Army of the Dead has 30 minutes of great action, 30 minutes of stupidity and 1 hour of boredom.
That's the review.
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Seaspiracy 2021
As we plunder our way toward extinction, there are a slew of documentaries that will shine the light, make us fear for our long-term survival, and turn us all into temporary Greta Thunbergs. Produced by Kip Anderson (director of What the Health and co-director of Cowspiracy), first time feature director Ali Tabrizi investigates the problems in our oceans today.
When the documentary starts, it's clear that plastic should be outlawed. However, deeper and more sinister issues arise when Tabrizi completely…
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Zappa 2020
An absolutely immense documentary on the life and music of an absolutely immense man. I didn’t think I could admire Zappa more than I already did but yup I can indeed. Also what an incredible work of editing this is! Truly a fantastic collage of all of Zappa’s archival footage and performances. Wow!
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The Midnight Sky 2020
This is a totally fine sci-fi/survival movie. It borrows a TON from other genre films. My biggest complaint is it feels like two completely separate movies were cut in half and spliced together, so neither really gets fleshed out.
This definitely feels and looks exactly like all the other Netflix sci-fi movies. Its a fine way to waste 2 hours.
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Undine 2020
Christian Petzold quaint take on a modern fairytale is beautiful. There is a calm sense of feeling in Udine that is rather hallucinating. Very well balanced between fantasy and melodrama that I dug. Udine has no razzamatazz displaying spirits, but Petzold uses his camera cleverly to make you feel this presence.
The underwater scenes keep you on edge, and the mystery is elevated to a 10 in the second half of the movie. Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski are tremendous yet again together. Much love and time for Undine!
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1989
Almodóvar colourful surrealist film seems half cooked but damn it intrigued me. We are living inside a cinematic dark melodrama and he challenges you to empathise in this twisted affair. Almodóvar explores Stockholm Syndrome within a melodramatic context and he tries to convince you with the normalisation of it in his story. For me, I did find it difficult to empathise with Banderas but his performance suits Almodóvar's narrative and artistic flare.
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Antebellum 2020
This had received mixed to negative reviews so I spent much of the movie waiting for the other shoe to drop but...it doesn’t? There’s some misery porn I don’t blame anyone to be offended by early on but that is contained and not too over the top. Besides that and Gabourney Sidibe painfully hijacking the film for a bit in the middle as she insists on every project she’s been in the past few years, I do not have many…
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Antebellum 2020
People: *Give this movie bad reviews saying it isn't horror*
Me quoting a queen from modern family: Do you have to be so white all the time?I don't get all the hate for his movie, i mean of course it has its small details that could have been different (like most movies), but overall it was awesome. It connected the horror of slavery to the modern day in a very interesting way.
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The Mourning Forest 2007
Japan is home to the world's most notorious forest - Aokigahara, which has become known as the 'Suicide Forest' (as seen in such recent films as Gus Van Sant's Sea of Trees and the insensitive horror yarn The Forest) thanks to its popularity as a destination for those intent on ending their lives. According to Japanese mythology, Aokigahara is said to be home to spirits of the dead, known locally as 'Yurei'.
Forests have a special place in Japanese culture.…
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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time 2020
The backdrop of neuroscience takes Christian Petzold's anti-erotic thrillers to a logical endpoint in suggesting that love itself may be a physiological defect and a madness. Also harks back to Kieslowski in the ways its characters' inner uncertainty manifests as ambiguous behavior and a kind of game that everyone plays but no one knows the rules.
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Apples 2020
Pandemics come in a handful of different varieties — some we accurately diagnose, and some we don’t even notice. A highly contagious outbreak of coronavirus (to pick a random example) leaves behind a trail of bodies that makes it rather easy for right-thinking people to recognize the disease for what it is. Other global health crises, however, can be harder to spot. The ones that poison our mental health. The ones that disguise themselves as progress. The ones that seduce…
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