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Recent reviews

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Afraid to commit to being a musical. Afraid to commit to being a comic book tale. Afraid to commit to any sort of coherent political ideology. I honestly can't think of a single reason for this movie to exist besides the fact that the first film made a handful of people quite a lot of money and they couldn't help but see if they could squeeze out a little more.

  The Joker is a loser, but he's not even half as much a loser in Todd Phillips' eyes as the poor saps he's peddling this movie to.

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  Smithereens 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  Feels like French New Wave meets The Decline of Western Civilization. Electric filmmaking. The dingy squatter pads and desolate streets convey a state of the NYC punk scene that is positively apocalyptic.

Popular reviews

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  Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo 2012

  Watched 24 Apr 2013 1

  Studio Ghibli teams up with some of the guys who made Neon Genesis Evangelion to produce their first ever live-action short. The result? A really neat proof-of-concept that shows just how capable these guys are at pulling the unique stylings of anime into the real world.

  It's especially interesting to see how they almost seamlessly combined live-action shots in the city with shots of the to-scale model city that they had their monster annihilate. Word is that Miyazaki himself designed…

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  Under the Skin 2013

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Dec 2014 1

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