FEMME is a perpetual push and pull. Between masculine and feminine, dom and sub, victim and victimiser, soft and hard, Preston and Jules. But as the film progresses and deepens its two characters, binaries are blurred and burned, breaking the boundary between the two and the absurdity and toxicity of inhabiting just one. Our reaction to the film isn't binary either. We are caught in the fraught feeling of being both repelled and compelled by the actions of Preston, andβ¦
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Blessed be another Boots Riley bizarre and beguiling trip into anti-capitalist didacticism and obtuse surrealism. With The Boys increasingly becoming what it was once satirising, I'm A Virgo is a particularly welcome dissection of the status quo affirming genre of superhero conservatism.
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Doctor Who: The Star Beast 2023
Ostentatious earnestness and cheesy sincerity in fucking SPADES. RTD is back, baby! Donna is The Doctor's best ever friend? What? Since when? RTD is back, baby! Remarkable how something so expensive can look so cheap. RTD is back, baby! A deus ex machina conclusion that feels needlessly complex and utterly random? RTD is back, baby! Featuring music as bombastic, ear splitting and over the top as the drama on screen. RTD is back, baby! Do I wanna like this becauseβ¦
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Your Name Engraved Herein 2020
This was so desperate to be an epic love story, replete with the corniest piano solos and jarring use of free form jazz. It's extraordinarily soapy, sans any self-awareness. The flashback structure is odd.. it amounts to nothing? It's bizarrely abandoned when the film's timeline reaches this dramatic point. But so many scenes felt like that - they barely establish context and a distinct lack of buildup to its most dramatic beats. Halfway through the two characters seemingly switch rolesβ¦