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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
The Magnum to TFA’s Le Tigre. Sure, okay, they turned left this time, but it’s still p much the same look.
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Detention 2011
Vampire Quinceañera - Hoop-Tober Part Deux (4.0)
"He made everyone he skated past feel 20% cooler."
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Poto and Cabengo 1980
Ugh, if only Les Blank had just made the damn movie himself. Such a fascinating subject, such great footage, such charismatic stars, all horribly misorganized and formally fussed over and overwritten to hell (Gorin's narration constantly interrupts to describe for us the obvious subtext or social import of what we're seeing as though we're idiots).
I mean for chrissake, I'm a twin. My own Cabengo just moved across the country. I should be putty in this movie's hands.
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Ghost World 2001
If I had watched this ten years ago Enid would probably be my hero and my dream girl. Now I just feel really bad for her.
Am I becoming some kind of....adult or something? Geez.
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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland 1989
A frequently gorgeous, lovingly crafted adaptation of the Winsor McCay classic, bludgeoned to within an inch of its life by studio-note fuckery.
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Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder 1900
I'm at the Hat Maker. I'm at the Sausage Grinder. I'm at the combination Hat Maker and Sausage Grinder.
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Winter Days 2003
As much of a mixed bag as any anthology film, but it's hard to complain when there are 35 different flavors to choose from and none of them overstay their welcome.
Plus where else can you see legendary Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata making one of the cinema's most lyrical and contemplative poop jokes.
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Magnificent Obsession 1954
Losing your eyesight is twice as tragic when you live in a Douglas Sirk movie.
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The Impossible Kid 1982
Agent 00 is back with some sweet new karate moves and a marginally higher production budget, but like most sequels The Impossible Kid inevitably suffers from a case of diminishing returns. After For Y'ur Height Only so wonderfully played around with the rules of action movie geometry to accommodate its star's unique attributes, it's hard not to be disappointed by how often this movie is content to just have Weng Weng hide inside or behind stuff and call it an…
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For Y'ur Height Only 1981
A (probably unintentional) object lesson in the crucial role of geometry in action movies. With each shot of henchmen idling in the same warehouse that's been hastily redecorated to look like a slightly different warehouse we're presented with a new array of geometric possibilities to puzzle out. Where, just outside the frame, is Weng Weng dangling in the tensed arms of some hapless PA, waiting to pounce? At what trajectory will he have to be thrown, dropped or rolled into…
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