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Slow West 2015
Slow West is like if Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Jim Jarmusch bore a love child in New Zealand, then raised it in old west Colorado, with the life expectancy of a kiddie film's runtime. (And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.)
Discussed in full on episode #139 of the Cinereelists podcast.
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Chappie 2015
In theaters 3/6.
Chappie is getting brutalized by the critics and I don't get it, its undeniably a Neill Blomkamp film. The movie is action-heavy with relatively shallow performances, giant mechs driven by impeccable video-game inspired visual effects, and a dystopian Joberg setting. This is the formula people, get on board or GTHO the theater. Haters gonna hate, I guess.
I had a lot of fun with Chappie - it's like a cross of the childish wonder of Short Circuit…