ashanflux

ashanflux

Favorite films

  • Stalker
  • Raw
  • Lady Vengeance
  • Crash

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  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★

  • The Matrix

    ★★★★★

  • Goodnight Mommy

    ★★

  • Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

    ★★★★½

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  • Goodnight Mommy

    Goodnight Mommy

    ★★

    Spoilers below:
    I remember seeing posters and ads for this movie on TV when i was in my early teens, because it looked rather interesting it ended up on my watchlist and after a decade i finally gave it a shot. What starts out rather promising loses all its potential in the last third of the film. At first the movie is genuinely good (also there is no way that Ari Aster hasnt seen it), the acting, the cinematography, the…

  • It Ends with Us

    It Ends with Us

    Lowkey feelin like Justin Baldoni wasnt acting in this...

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★½

    If I were to speak theoretically, "The Substance" should have been right up my alley... (spoilers below)
    What starts out as a pretty cool premise does not get more than surface level development, the visual imagery was neat and subtle at first but started to feel rather forced eventually becoming very on the nose and repetetive. Themes get set up and instead of exploring them the director just feels the urge to repeat the same sequences over and over, why…

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★

    At this point not even unionizing would help
    Anyway i would have totally bumped up this score by like... half a star if not for all the fan service and the deep fake situation. It isnt particularly grading but its there and sometimes it takes you out of the overall experience. Besides everything tho, this is a genuinely solid movie, its well directed, well acted and oh- the practical effects are amazing.

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