A very good and eye opening look at the conflict that happened (and continues to happen) all over Africa. The West and white people funding and exacerbating local conflicts for greed and exploitation. Excellent acting all around, and definitely not your classic white saviour does it again, Di Caprio is a flawed hero, horrible but does the right thing. Solomon Vandy the true star of the film, imagine your family being refugees and son brainwashed into a child solider?!
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The Prestige 2006
How the fuck have I not heard of this? How the fuck does Nolan casually drop Batman Begins, this, the Dark Knight and Inception in the space of 5 years? Whilst there’s his classic twists and misdirection (but that’s what magic is all about right?), I felt like he absolutely nailed the narrative of poisonous rivalry and obsession, trying to scale newer heights to one up your enemy, fuelling your next move based on pure hatred absolutely brilliantly. Jackman and…
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
Really really good slow burner that ends just right - no bang, just more questions and lives under the public microscope. Thought both the prosecutor and defence were brilliant - trying to pin small snapshots of a vastly complicated relationship into a narrative of whether it was murder or suicide. The French court system looks mental as fuck too, but I think that as a judicial system it may be better than ours. I would begin to briefly sympathise for…
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Back in Action 2025
This is the most ridiculous film I’ve seen in a while. Why did these actors agree to this? What inspired its creation? Why did I find myself weirdly enjoying the insanity of this? The dramatic cliche tropes you could predict a mile off. And yet there I am laughing at the absurdity of it all? We were meant to watch a David Lynch film and yet just ended up viewing this somehow instead. Where on earth did the budget come from to make this film?
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