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  • Dark Angel: The Ascent

  • Patlabor 2: The Movie

  • Past Lives

  • Fight Club

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  • Paco

    Paco

    ★★★★★

    Adelaide Film Festival 2022 #11 ("work-in-progress screening")

    Let’s get it out right off the bat(mos): Tim Carlier’s debut feature is an incredible accomplishment; at once a scrappy “friends make a movie” movie and a work of fully-formed comic and cinematic sensibility, if not maybe actual genius. The premise is simple: actress leaves film set with a mic, sound recordist has to get it back. What follows is an odyssey through parks, city blocks, house parties, churches and liminal spaces, uncovering…

  • Memoria

    Memoria

    ★★★★★

    Movie you take a walk after and it's one of the best walks of your life.

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  • Patlabor 2: The Movie

    Patlabor 2: The Movie

    Military junta ASMR

  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    First solo trip to the cinema in yonks (The Velvet Queen on 11th Jan to be precise). Really scratched that itch for a good character piece in ways I wasn't expecting. Saves its best scene for right near the end and demolished me a bit. Real goldilocks movie - juuuuuust right.

    Bestie had his fate sealed the moment she got named after Leonard Cohen.

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  • Space Jam: A New Legacy

    Space Jam: A New Legacy

    ½

    The World is Hell: Hopeless Cinema

    [more to come...writing something large-ish but I'm feeling worse the longer I think about this and need to go to bed]


    Update: More thoughts added

    I have spent several hours now performing an exorcism on myself and I still only feel marginally better than I did when the lights came on and I emerged from the interminable hellscape that is this fucking movie. It is a million times more apocalyptically bleak than you could…

  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★½

    Please get over yourself.

    My feelings may change, and it's been a hot minute since I've seen any Kaufman so I may be in a weird place with him, but a lot of this was insufferable and crushingly disappointing. Synecdoche, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine are three films I adore, and here I just feel none of the humanity or creativity that makes those films so special. Sure, there's discomfort and moments of deeply upsetting psychological horror - as a cinematic…