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Spaceman 2024
I am always excited about watching new sci-fi movies, so this piqued my interest. I didn't know anything other than it stars a "lonely" spaceman played by Adam Sandler. The setup was interesting enough – with a mission to explore an unexpected cosmic phenomenon that appeared four years ago – and the set design was inspired by current tech with a lived-in aesthetic and not some ultra-polished design sometimes seen.
The connection he has with Earth and his wife could've…
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Official Competition 2021
The movie is marvellous with its understated humour, eccentric characters and strange spectacle. It is absurdly comic throughout and the three leads are having so much fun. Penélope Cruz is phenomenal as the auteur director with crazy artistic methods in preparing two antagonistic actors. Her hair steals the show. Antonio Banderas is wondrous as the arrogant over-paid actor/celebrity whereas Oscar Martínez plays an old-school theatre thespian. The confrontation of their different lifestyles and big egos is the heart of the movie. There are plenty of unusual scenes which are all captured brilliantly, from the pretentious set design to the screenplay, the off-beat editing to the acting.
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Vivarium 2019
I wanted to like this Twight Zone-esque movie, but it really struggles with a basic concept stretched a little too thin. Lured and abandoned in an inescapable endless suburban housing estate, a young couple must accept their fate and raise a baby they are mysteriously given.
Jesse Eisenberg is good as a man slowly losing his sanity and working himself to death with a thankless job. But it is Imogen Poots who shines, giving a nuanced performance struggling to accept…
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Asteroid City 2023
This was on par with Wes Anderson's previous feature The French Dispatch and evokes the same criticisms;
An all-star cast feature in the quintessential Wes Anderson movie, but which is devoid of emotion, lost in the cold symmetrical and framed set design and cinematography.
After half an hour I was bored of the quirkiness. There are plenty of characters with somewhat interesting stories, but these only ever touch the surface. The screenplay story-within-the-story didn't really work for me; I would…