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  In a Violent Nature 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 31 May 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Atlas 2024

  ★★½ Watched 27 May 2024

  It scratches an itch that some might have for masturbatory special effects, but don’t expect much as far as story goes. The basic premise dances around the same machine bad but maybe machine good spill we’ve seen a million times before. As far as Jennifer Lopez goes, she sure seems to be pretty emotional and hysterical for someone who is supposed to be a calculated analytical genius.

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  Once Within a Time 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Sep 2023

  Godfrey Reggio once told me that I can walk on water. For anyone who sees this film as an injunction against technology, you completely missed the point. The ailments of tech are obvious, but it is the children who decide the future. Reggio describes the film as both linear and non-linear, and I might describe it as cyclical. A definite leap from Reggio’s past work, incorporating characters and plot, this bardic tale in a way acts as an homage to…

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  Eating Miss Campbell 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2024

  Cannibalism hasn’t been this sexy since I unknowingly got my red wings!*

  Great cast, beautifully shot, excellent special effects, absolutely bonkers script. It is a wonderfully cacophonous love letter to the low budget horror genre, and while it very much is one itself, this Troma entry feels in some way like an elevation. No, not like the “elevated horror,” favorites of A24 film bros, but an elevation of this niche cinema into a, dare I say “respectable” era? Don’t worry,…

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