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The Boy and the Heron 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus, 2013’s The Wind Rises, the words of French poet Paul Valery are transformed into a summation of the director’s entire project: “The wind is rising! We must try to live!” If we are allotted a short time in this world, then we must hoist our sails and take advantage of opportunity when it arises... but what does it mean when your dreams are cursed ones? With his possibly final film, Miyazaki raises a question responding…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Over the past decade, Martin Scorsese has shifted from making traditional studio films that showcase his signature style to creating grand-scale epics that delve deeper than ever into the themes and concepts he's been exploring throughout his whole career. The Wolf of Wall Street is where Marty began operating with his Late Style, it’s a three-hour assault of sex, drugs, and theft that sells the viewer on spiraling out with the criminals they watch up until the end, where Belfort…
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The King of Comedy 1982
One of Marty's many masterpieces. This and Raging Bull together are an incredible argument for Bobby De Niro being a Top 10 actor of all time. Very prescient with it's ideas of hustle culture, joyless/sexless human relationships, and fame. Unfortunately, I get very bad second-hand embarrassment, so half of the scenes in this are torturous for me to endure. The scenes where he refuses to leave the front desk receptionist make me want to rip my face off. Good movie.
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Jungle Emperor 1966
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Simba means 'lion' in Swahili. Hence the main character's name in "The Lion King."
Kimba is a dated, completely bewildering 52 episode anime about a white lion who goes to France, hunts down a kidnapping alligator using scuba gear, bargains with humans, destroys a helicopter, witnesses the genocide of elephants by the military and battles a flying tiger with wings. I should also mention that his friends parade around in his dead father's corpse and speak to Kimba in…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
If you don't know where you're going, you can't know how to get there.
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