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O'Dessa 2025
Geremy Jasper's fever dream of an apocalyptic musical is part Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet and part Julie Taymor's Across the Universe. It is chaotic with an overly simplistic plot but visually and musically it is stunning. Sink shines and Bartlett is a camp daddy. But it all worked for me.
Following up his impressive Patty Cake$ with another music based film, Jasper has laid it all on the line. He commits fully and even when it slips a bit O'Dessa remains…
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Supergirl 1984
- it’s clear how much inspiration the film takes from Superman the Movie and Superman II, in visual style, even casting, but the story and characters just aren’t up to the same level
- the crisis that precipitates the plot is so apocalyptic and yet so sudden and easily triggered it feels unnecessarily unrealistic
- the plot relies on one big deus ex Machina in its “omegahedron” which just does whatever the story needs without logic or consistency
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
Okay, I know my opinion on Maverick is going to be an outlier. People love this film, and that’s good. But I was mostly bored, similarly to how I felt about the original film, and there are things that stuck in my craw that just made me not really enjoy this predictable and formulaic film. I get that for people who love Top Gun the sense of nostalgia will overwhelm them and good on them. But for those who don’t…
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A House Made of Splinters 2022
Sometimes it's hard to remember, for those of us living in peaceful parts of the world, that life does continue to go on in war zones, people needs to make their way day to day through life as the war rages around them. A House Made of Splinters focuses on a group of people trying to keep a Ukrainian orphanage running for the children who live there. Filmed before the recent rise in military conflict, A House Made of Splinters…
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