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Hopepunk 2025
The only one of the 'Karma's a B*tch!' shorts that wanted to be a bit longer, even if I might not've enjoyed the long film: the living car and the red-eyed zombies aren't my thing, but the setting's tensions deserved to be tugged at more. I appreciate a use of the term 'hopepunk' that means killing fascists. Too earnest at the end for my tastes, though.
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Perfect Boy Next Door 2024
The reveal at the end entirely disintegrates his reason for appearing on the true crime show. If the film wants to pick at the exploitation of these shows – yes, I agree, but what are we to think he says after the credits roll? Surely not the truth.
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The People's Joker 2022
Funny and earnest are two sides of the same bifurcated Kamala face! I laughed, I got punched in the gut, I loved every bit of animation and stitching-together and blowing-apart of story. The ideal film to see in a packed cinema. Suicide Cop, can I get your autograph–
Q&A over zoom at the end, which Vera finished by showing us her cat (black, eyes big and round, perfect, 10/10). Loved her talking about making art the audience doesn't know they…
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998
"A mundane yob transformed into an archangel." A selfish subjectivity, picking up another man like a wrecking ball to be beaten by him in bed but not attending to how he wrecks himself. You've got to laugh or cry, don't you! Cry, then. Laugh. A gorgeously horrid film, scored to spearing perfection by Ryuichi Sakamoto, suffused with all the violence of class and art. Daniel Craig with a belt in one hand, fag in the other. Fag underneath him.
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