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  Ponyo 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  Some of the most inspired Sakuga from Ghibli

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  Network 1976

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2024

  Sidney Lumet did something with this movie that had never been done before and hasn't quite been touched since, in my opinion. Network has such an intangible, fantastical quality to it, where it manages to exist on its own dartboard of critique, but transcend it and rally an audience of viewers to feel empowered against it. People often look at this film and point out its relevance in the western media canon in the 21st century, gesturing to its foresight…

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jul 2023

  Reverberated droning of industrial machinery, deafening electric whirrs, grinding metal and the screams of your friends as they die in front of you. Average Texan dinner party, or the most pleasant slaughterhouse you've ever seen.

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2024

  Villeneuve's high fantasy, sci-fi hybrid sequel surpasses it's predecessor in almost all ways technical and directorial. A film tackling the task of adapting Frank Herbert's gargantuan, messianic narrative epic would need to be an audiovisual spectacle, and it is. With the production design at Villeneuves disposal though, I think he lacks a tact for symbolic imagery. The degree to which this key imagery is employed is insufficient to intimately explore the Fremen culture. Furthermore, this ties into a similar problem…

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